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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gift from Staglin family will fund research on returning unhealthy brains to health.
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.
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.
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.
UCLA’s Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences is working to answer biology’s “million-dollar question”: How do genes and the environment interact to ensure health or cause disease?
