his spring, Andrew Nicholls, a UCLA senior and eight-year army veteran, shared his firsthand perspectives about the military and combat by teaching a new psychology course through the Psychology department called ‘Fast Cars and Battle Scars: Understanding the Modern Combat Veteran and PTSD.’
Social-science research on same-sex families highlighted a study by Jill Waterman, UCLA adjunct professor of psychology; Letitia Anne Peplau, UCLA distinguished research professor of psychology; and Justin Lavner, a UCLA doctoral candidate in psychology, showing that high-risk children adopted from foster care do equally well when they are placed with gay, lesbian or heterosexual parents.
Public tickets for the extremely popular, second-annual campus “Science and Food” lecture series, taught by food scientist Amy Rowat,are now available.
Aging is marked by the accumulation of wear and tear on the body’s organs and tissues, but the specific kinds of damage that usher in death are still unknown. David Walker and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, suspected that the intestines may play a key role. In previous studies, when energy metabolism in the intestines was boosted, the flies’ lifespan increased.
A profile on Amy Rowat, UCLA assistant professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology, highlighting her annual “Science and Food” public events, which feature top chefs and are presented in conjunction with her UCLA academic course, “Science and Food: The Physical and Molecular Origins of What We Eat.”
Thomas Smith, director of the UCLA Center for Tropical Research and professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Trevon Fuller, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Tropical Research have developed a technique that allows us to predict sites where human and bird viruses could mix and generate a future pandemic.
Andrew Christensen, professor of Psychology who has worked with hundreds of couples over more than 30 years, worked with his colleague Brian Doss, a UCLA alumnus, to designed a website, www.OurRelationship.com, that allows you and your partner to strengthen your marriage— for free and from the comfort of your own home.
UCLA postdoctoral scholar in Psychology, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook,led new research showing that women with strong social support from their families during pregnancy appear to be protected from sharp increases in a particular stress hormone, making them less likely to experience post-partum depression.
UCLA postdoctoral scholar Ruian Ke, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor James Lloyd-Smith, have found that defective viruses help normal, functional viruses by increasing the transmission of the functional virus.
UCLA researchers, including senior author Dr. Robert L. Modlin, Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics have found that certain bacteria — including the type that causes tuberculosis — can act like viruses and hide out, unhindered, inside our cells.
Life Sciences
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14A LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31B) Plus other courses |
CHEM14B LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) Plus other courses |
CHEM 14BL LS 7A STATS 13 OR LS40 OR MATH 3C |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14C LS 7B STATS 13 OR LS40 OR MATH 3C or other course |
CHEM 14D LS 7C LS 23L |
PHYSICS 5A CHEM 153A* LS 107* |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| PHYSICS 5B Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
PHYSICS 5C Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
Electives and remaining requirements needed for graduation |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
* Only required for select Life Science majors.
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 20 Non-majors biology class (LS 15, EEB 25, EEB 87, MCDB 50) Plus other courses |
LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31A) LS 7A Plus other courses |
LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) LS 7B Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 7C CHEM 17 LS 23L |
CHEM 14A STATS 13 OR LS 40 OR MATH 3C LS 110 |
CHEM 14B CHEM 14BL Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14C LS 107* OR STATS 13 OR LS 40 Plus other courses |
CHEM 14D PHYSICS 5A Plus other courses |
CHEM 153A* or 14D PHYSICS 5B Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| PHYSICS 5C Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
* Only required for select Life Sciences majors.
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31A) LS 7A Plus other course(s) |
LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) LS 7B Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 14A PHYSICS 5A (OR LS 40 OR STATS 13) Plus other course(s) |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14B LS 40 OR STATS 13 (OR PHYSICS 5A) Plus other course(s) |
LS 7C LS 23L CHEM 14C |
CHEM 14BL PHYSICS 5C (pre-req for Neurosci M101A) * Plus other course(s) |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| PHYSICS 5B CHEM 14CL Plus other courses |
CHEM 14D Plus other courses |
CHEM 153A Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
*Physics does not require Physics 5B as a pre-requisite for Physics 5C
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31A) LS 7A Plus other course(s) |
LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) LS 7B Plus other course(s) |
STATS 13 OR LS40 OR MATH 3C LS 7C LS 23L |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14A STATS 13 OR LS 40 Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 14B CHEM 14BL Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 14C PHYSICS 5A Plus other course(s) |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14D LS 107* Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 153A* PHYSICS 5B Plus other course(s) |
PHYSICS 5C Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
* Only required for select Life Science Majors.