Life Sciences professor Jeffrey H. Miller was today elected a Fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Previous Fellows have included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill.
Robert Bjork, distinguished professor of psychology and co-principal investigator at the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab at UCLA, was quoted on Monday in a New York Times article on new research about how we learn and remember.
Ladan Shams, UCLA assistant professor of Psychology, recently published a study of how brain corrects perceptual errors. These findings may lead to better hearing aids and robotic technology.
Kerri Johnson, UCLA assistant professor of communication studies and psychology, was quoted in an ABC News online article about a dating website that matches couples based on their facial similarities.
U.S. News & World reports on research by Alan Castel, UCLA assistant professor of cognitive psychology, and colleagues exploring the dynamics between memory and emotional states.
A study co-authored by James Lloyd-Smith, UCLA assistant professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and U.C. San Diego biochemist Leor Weinberger found that, over 30 years, therapeutic interfering particles (TIPS) could reduce the number of people in Sub-Saharan Africa infected with HIV to one-thirtieth of the current level.
This Time magazine article about kids and social media referenced a 2006 study at UCLA by Barbara Knowlton, UCLA professor of psychology, and her colleague, Russell Poldrack, now at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fuyu Tamanoi, UCLA professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and director of the signal transduction and therapeutics program at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was quoted Monday in a Chemical and Engineering News article about the use of diamond-like nanostructures in chemotherapy drug delivery.
Jaana Juvonen UCLA professor of developmental psychology, was quoted Thursday in a Los Angeles Times article about an anti-bullying conference at the White House.