Which is most valuable: Gold, cocaine or rhino horn?
International team, including UCLA’s Blaire Van Valkenburgh, warns that loss of Earth’s largest animals will have drastic results
World’s largest herbivores — including several species of elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses and gorillas — face danger of extinction
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
Philip Rundel wins Award of Excellence for ‘Hawaiian Plant Life: Vegetation and Flora’
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’
Dozens of Alabama school districts adopt UCLA guidelines to help teachers, students thrive
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.
UCLA Life Scientists, Jeffery F. Miller and Glen MacDonald elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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.
$2.4 million grant will help UCLA to make undergrad STEM courses more interactive, more effective
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.
Why do animals fight members of other species?
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.
Paul Barber, Dwayne Simmons, Ivy Onyeador selected for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
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.
Learning to see data with perceptual-learning
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.
Blaire Van Valkenburgh named Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar
Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been selected among 13 Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholars for 2015-2016 nationally.