UCLA’s Science and Food lectures are returning for Spring 2016

UCLA Professor Amy Rowat's high-profile "Science and Food" series is back this Spring, with two events on March 8 and May 11– and a third one to be announced.

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.

“Primed” stem cells may be better for use in regenerative medicine

Professor Amander Clark and UCLA colleagues find that "naïve" stem cells, commonly used regenerative medicine studies today, are not as stable as "primed" stem cells.

Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy

A study led by A. Janet Tomiyama, an assistant professor of Psychology, finds that using BMI to gauge health incorrectly labels more than 54 million Americans as “unhealthy,” even though they are not.

UCLA study shows anti-bullying program focused on bystanders helps the students who need it most

Jaana Juvonen, professor of Psychology, leads a new study that shows that the most tormented children — can be helped by teaching bystanders to be more supportive

UCLA psychology study explains when and why bystanders intervene in cyberbullying

UCLA psychologists report people on social media are often unsupportive of cyberbullying victims who have shared highly personal feelings

When air is polluted, homing pigeons find their way home faster

UCLA scientists find that despite air pollution, racing pigeons on the North China Plain actually flew faster on days when the air quality was worse.

UCLA scientists collaborate on study offering new understanding of Bluetongue virus that has killed millions of cattle

Hong Zhou, professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, collaborated with colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to discover the virus’s two-step process for infecting healthy cells.

Professor Robert Wayne receives UC’s 2016 Research Catalyst Award

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor, Robert Wayne, will lead a collaboration of 5 UC campuses in a DNA-based biodiversity survey across California.