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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sense of smell may reveal weight bias

UCLA researchers found that when people viewed images of overweight or obese people, they gave worse ratings to scent samples — even though the samples were unscented.
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UCLA opens new Staglin Family Music Festival Center for Brain and Behavioral Health

Gift from Staglin family will fund research on returning unhealthy brains to health.
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UCLA life scientists make breakthrough for sickle cell disease treatment

Senior author, Dr. Donald Kohn, and his team have found that an innovative stem cell gene therapy method could provide a one-time, lasting treatment for sickle cell disease.
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UCLA researchers devise new method to identify disease markers, a key step toward personalized medicine

Senior author Xinshu (Grace) Xiao and team, have developed a method, called GIREMI to inexpensively identify genetic markers for diagnosing and predicting the risk of a wide range of diseases.
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Airport screening for viruses misses half of infected travelers but can be improved, says UCLA-led study

A team lead by Ecology and Evolutionary Biology post-doc Katelyn Gostic and associate professor James Lloyd-Smith found that airport screening misses at least half of infected travelers.
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