UCLA Psychologist Matthew Lieberman and Robert Spunt show that even during quiet moments, our brains are preparing us to be socially connected to other people.

A new study led by UCLA associate professor of Psychology, Lara Ray, has found that Naltrexone, a drug used to treat alcoholism, may also be a promising treatment for addiction to methamphetamine.

International team, including UCLA’s Blaire Van Valkenburgh, warns that loss of Earth’s largest animals will have drastic results

UCLA researcher, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, co-authors study that finds one-fifth of the world’s wild savannah elephant population was poached between 2010 and 2012

Philip Rundel, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has won the Hawai’i Book Publisher Association’s 2015 Ka Palapala Po`okela Award of Excellence for Books on Natural Science for ‘Hawaiian Plant Life: Vegetation and Flora’

UCLA’s Center for Mental Health has developed a new program that has been adopted by dozens of school districts in Alabama, reducing absences and improving graduation rates.

Jeffery F. Miller, Philip Davis Chair in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and Glen MacDonald, UC Presidential Chair and distinguished professor, Departments of Geography and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.