UCLA researcher, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, co-authors study that finds one-fifth of the world’s wild savannah elephant population was poached between 2010 and 2012
International team, including UCLA’s Blaire Van Valkenburgh, warns that loss of Earth’s largest animals will have drastic results
Philip Rundel, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has won the Hawai’i Book Publisher Association’s 2015 Ka Palapala Po`okela Award of Excellence for Books on Natural Science for ‘Hawaiian Plant Life: Vegetation and Flora’
UCLA’s Center for Mental Health has developed a new program that has been adopted by dozens of school districts in Alabama, reducing absences and improving graduation rates.
Jeffery F. Miller, Philip Davis Chair in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and Glen MacDonald, UC Presidential Chair and distinguished professor, Departments of Geography and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.
Blaire Van Valkenburgh (Associate Dean for Academic Programs), Stephen Smale, Frank Laski, and Erin Sanders– all in UCLA Life Sciences– are heading a new, multipronged initiative to transform key courses for thousands of UCLA undergraduates.
Jonathan Drury and Gregory Grether, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology report that male aggression against potential rivals for females explains much of the interspecies fighting in damselflies.
The UCLA Academic Senate has named two faculty, Paul Barber (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology); Dwayne Simmons(Integrative Biology and Physiology); and graduate student, Ivuoma “Ivy” Onyeador (Psychology) recipients of the 2014-2015 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.
This article cites the perceptual-learning research of UCLA psychologist, Philip Kellman. By tapping into perceptual-learning, people can more quickly extract pertinent information from mountains of computational data.
In a new study published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, UCLA psychologists found that almost none of their subjects could draw the logo correctly from memory.
