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.
Gun violence and mental illness: Study addresses perception vs. reality
UCLA psychologist, Vickie Mays, worked with a team of international scholars to analyze epidemiological studies on gun violence and mental illness, and compared these results to media-fueled public perceptions about the dangerousness of mentally ill individuals.
Gray wolves may make a comeback in California
The gray wolf, hunted to extinction in California nearly 90 years ago, will be listed under the state’s Endangered Species Act. Robert Wayne, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, says it’s just a matter of time before wolves establish a pack in the Golden State
UCLA’s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden gets $5 million from Morton La Kretz
The funds donated by La Kretz will be used to build a garden pavilion that will house a welcome center and classroom, and to establish an endowment to maintain the new pavilion building. The new facility will be named the La Kretz Garden Pavilion. Construction is scheduled to begin in November 2015 and conclude by the end of 2016.
B cells produce antibodies ‘when danger calls, but not when it whispers’
An international team of life scientists, including senior author, Alexander Hoffmann, a professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics have shown how B-cells respond only to true threats.
Calling girls ‘fat’ may result in weight gain
Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows.
UCLA Life Scientist, Patricia Greenfield, Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Patricia Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Developmental Psychology, has been elected a 2014 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Climate change a likely culprit in coqui frog’s altered calls, say UCLA biologists
Peter Narins, UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Sebastiaan Meenderink, a UCLA physics researcher have linked changes in Puerto Rican climate over the past three decades to small but significant changes to the coqui frog, the territory's national animal.
UCLA Life Scientists’ Contribution to Breakthrough therapy allows four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs
Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord– research developed by UCLA life scientists, V. Reggie Edgerton and Yury Gerasimenko.
Does a junk food diet make you lazy? UCLA psychology study offers answer
A new UCLA psychology study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around.