UCLA’s Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Chapter to receive 2016 Chapter of the Year and Chapter Role Model Awards
The UCLA chapter of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) has been selected to receive two awards from the national organization.
UCLA life scientists promote pathways to graduate studies for undergraduates from historically black colleges and universities
Life scientists– Paul Barber, Alexander Hoffmann, and Tracy Johnson– are leading research programs and promoting graduate studies for undergraduates from historically black colleges and universities.
$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.
85 college students tried to draw the Apple logo from memory. 84 failed.
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.
High school student Petra Grutzik wins 1st at INTEL science fair, under guidance of UCLA Life Scientists
With Mentorship by UCLA Life Scientists, Nancy Day and Stephanie White, high school student Petra Grutzik wins 1st place at INTEL science fair and continues to move upward in science.