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.

Schools have limited success in reducing bullying

UCLA Psychology professor, Jaana Juvonen, and co-author Sandra Graham, a UCLA professor of education have conducted the most thorough analysis to date of studies on school bullying and found that K-12 schools' efforts to curtail bullying are often disappointing.

UCLA’s Science and Food Series Returns

Professor Amy Rowat's Science and Food Series is back with a new lineup, which includes Wylie Dufresne, Ole Mouritsen, Lena Kwak and L.A.'s own Morihiro Onodera.

To be Young, Black, and Male

Recent research by Phillip Atiba Goff, UCLA assistant professor of social psychology, and Matthew Jackson, a UCLA postdoctoral fellow in social psychology, examines police officers' attitudes toward African-Americans, particularly their perception of young black boys.

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman to be keynote speaker at UCLA College commencement

Randy Schekman, Nobel laureate, and undergraduate alumnus of UCLA Life Sciences, will be this year's keynote speaker at UCLA College commencement

Therapy for your marriage — without the therapy

Andrew Christensen, professor of Psychology, is the lead author of a new book: "Reconcilable Differences: Rebuild Your Relationship by Rediscovering the Partner You Love — Without Losing Yourself".

Biologist, Kirk Lohmueller, awarded 2014 Sloan Research Fellowships

Kirk Lohmueller, an assistant professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is one of two outstanding young professors from UCLA to receive 2014 Sloan Research Fellowships.

What do women want? It depends on the time of the month

Martie Haselton, professor of Psychology, and her colleagues have recently published a landmark meta-analysis of sexual preferences at ovulation