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University of California-Los Angeles

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2013

    Westside Mansions' Power-Use Gluttony Confirmed By Awesome UCLA Electricity Map

    An awesome new electricity use map created by UCLA's California Center for Sustainable Communities shows what you probably already suspect. Those righteous Prius drivers and aficionados of all things "sustainable," a.k.a. rich Westsiders, have some of the highest power usage figures in town:

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2013

    Women's Last Period Ever Can Be Predicted, Thanks To UCLA Research

    From the department of TMI comes news that UCLA researchers had figured out how to predict with a year or so when a woman's last period of all time will be. Because LA Weekly is your source for stuff you don't really want to know about. Turns out that academics at the Westwood school have figured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    Bionic Eye Is Here, Thanks In Part To Computer Chip By UCLA's Wentai Liu

    Used to be if your eyesight went out, your eyesight went out. And maybe you'd end up looking like a pirate, eye patch and all. But UCLA's bioengineering professor Wentai Liu has invented what is being hailed as "the first bionic eye for the blind:"

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2013

    UCLA Basketball Uniforms Universally Hated

    UCLA's one-off Adidas uniforms, rolled out for the school's bid at Pac-12 basketball supremacy, are supposed to "stun your opponents" and convey a sense of motion that's "crazy fast," according to the sportswear maker. But some fans think they're just plain crazy. The website Deadspin got a hold o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2013

    UCLA Ranks High In Latest 'Best Graduate Schools' List

    UCLA has been on a roll when it comes to outsize rankings for what is, essentially, a big, urban state college. After scoring a top-10 position in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings earlier this month the university is boasting that many of its graduate programs have made the late ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2013

    UCLA's Science and Food Series: The 2013 Season

    If you were among the lucky few who spent many an evening sitting in a UCLA lecture hall last spring, listening raptly as Dave Chang or Rene Redzepi talked about all the crazy stuff they do in their food labs, then it's time to grab your calendar and email the university again. This year, Professor ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 7, 2013

    UCLA's Festival of Preservation Unearths Gems From Thom Andersen and Jimmy Cagney, Among Others

    If you were among the lucky few who spent many an evening sitting in a UCLA lecture hall last spring, listening raptly as Dave Chang or Rene Redzepi talked about all the crazy stuff they do in their food labs, then it's time to grab your calendar and email the university again. This year, Professor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2013

    UCLA A Top 8 University, According To Times Higher Education World Ranking

    UCLA is the eighth best university in the world, according to the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings. That's even better than last year's 13th place for the publication's World University Rankings, in which Caltech came in at No. 1. The latest showing for the Westwood campus .. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2013

    UCLA-Adjacent Sex Attack; Suspect 'Selling Magazines'

    After UCLA saw three reported sexual attacks during the 2011-12 school year and one last month, school police said this week they were on the hunt for yet another suspect whom they say used the guise of selling magazines to get close to his victim at her Westwood Village residence off-campus. A UCL ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2013

    HIV Can Be Defeated By Protein Discovered By UCLA

    UCLA this week announced that its researchers have discovered a natural protein that could put the HIV virus out of business. They said the protein contains an enzyme, cholesterol-25-hydroxylase (CH25H), that creates an oxysterol called 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC), that can defeat not only HIV but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    UCLA Is A Top 5 Value Among American Public Universities, Princeton Review Says

    There are times in life when cheaper is not necessarily better: when you're choosing a doctor, a life-mate or, perhaps, an institution of higher learning. In this case, we'll give UCLA props. It keeps scoring big lately: The Westwood campus was recently named one of the best schools in the world by ... More >>

  • Stage

    January 31, 2013

    Two Plays About Big Ideas

    Cassiopeia and Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ruminate on Heaven and Earth

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2013

    College Freshmen Say Cash Is King, According to UCLA Survey

    Money, money, money, money. That's what's first and foremost on the minds of America's incoming freshman, according to the latest Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey administered, in part, by UCLA. According to the numbers ...

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2013

    UCLA Gets More Applications Than Any Other U.S. School; Latino Hopefuls Outnumber Whites

    Last year UCLA made the top 20 on a prestigious list of the world's best universities. Today the school announced that it has received nearly 100,000 applications for freshman spots and undergraduate transfer admissions, making it, UCLA, says ... ... the most applied-to university in the country ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2013

    UCLA Student's Attempted Murder In Hollywood Could Be Linked To Campus Attack

    The Jan. 2 attempted murder of a student who had taken a bus home from UCLA to East Hollywood might be connected to an attempted sexual assault on campus five days later, according to a report tonight in the Daily Bruin. In the Hollywood case the victim reported a suspect of a similar description f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2013

    UCLA Sexual Attacker Described In New Police Sketch

    UCLA police today released a sketch of a suspect wanted for a Jan. 7 attempted sexual assault on campus. The attempt happened early the same morning as a robbery near school but the crimes did not appear to be related. According to cops ...

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2013

    UCLA Sees Attempted Sexual Assault, Separate Robbery In Same Day

    Bad start to the new year for L.A.'s big universities. While USC announced it will close off its campus to outsiders overnight, UCLA is grappling with a pair of scary crime reports. Early Monday someone tried to sexually assault a female student. And not long before that, a student was robbed. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2013

    New 'Mobile Lab' App Detects Allergens in Food

    There's an app for that ... food allergy? An innovative new device and app from UCLA researchers lets you scan and test your food before you eat it. It basically turns your smartphone into a mobile lab that can test your food for a number of common allergens, Mobile Health News reports. It can curre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2013

    UCLA Ranked Top 10 Best Public College Value In America By Kiplinger's

    In fall UCLA was named one of the best universities in the world by Times Higher Education in the UK. Next month's Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine gives the Westwood school an even more important distinction: One of the "10 Best Public College Values" in the United States for 2013:

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2012

    Asian Women Targeted In Another Act Of Sexist, Racist Vandalism At UCLA

    Looks like UCLA, ranked one of the best universities in the world, has a serial idiot on its hands. On the day we reported that someone posted a racist, sexist message outside the offices of the Vietnamese Student Union and the Pacific Islanders Student Association, a similar scrawling was discover ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2012

    UCLA Is No Longer Crime Leader Among U.S. Colleges, Website Admits (Sort Of)

    A website's declaration that UCLA is the most crime-prone campus in the nation last week had many of us in the L.A. news media shaking our heads with doubt. WTF? It's a question LA Weekly posed to the publication in question, Business Insider. It responded with crickets. Until last night. A publici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2012

    Sexual Attraction To Other Men Rises When Attached Women Are Fertile -- Study

    If you think figuring out the key to a woman's sexuality and attraction to men is complicated, a new UCLA study basically just confirmed that old stereotype. But ... the academics did provide you with a better road map to understanding the complexities of that being we know as the human female. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2012

    UCLA Campus To Go No-Smoking, No Exceptions

    UCLA is joining the smoke-free bandwagon. Chancellor Gene Block announced today that the Westwood campus would go entirely no-smoking, even in its lush, outdoor quads, even outside its dorms, even on the sidelines of its practice football field. Lighting up will not be allowed anywhere on UCLA prop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2012

    Sex Addiction One Step Closer To Becoming Recognized Disorder -- UCLA

    Listen up Charlie Sheen, Anthony Weiner and the entire porn industry. The good folks at UCLA have come up with a set of scientific criteria for what ails you, a.k.a., sex addiction. And the new guidelines make this one step closer to becoming recognized as a legitimate mental disorder along the lin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2012

    Lloyd S. Shapley: UCLA Gets A Sixth Nobel Prize, This One In Economics

    Good news for UCLA this fall. Not only is its football team 5-2 (not bad), while its academic programs make it a top-13 school in the world, but it's now home to yet another Nobel Prize winner. He's the sixth Nobel laureate from the Westwood school, according to UCLA. The Nobel Prize folks announc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2012

    Meet The New Star That Resists The Pull of The Black Hole

    You learned in school that the black hole sucks in everything around it. The black hole is like Charlie Sheen's nostrils. No mere particles of matter, no matter how dense and Chris Christie-like, can resist this force. Well, UCLA this week announced that it has found the little star that could. Al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    UCLA Study Finds Bisexual Women and Gay Men Suffer Higher Rates of Domestic Violence

    Bisexual women and gay men face higher rates of domestic violence, the Williams Institute, a UCLA gay think thank, has reported. "Binge drinking and a history of psychological distress predicted intimate partner violence," a UCLA press statement reads, "but these factors did not explain disparitie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    Caltech is World's Best University; UCLA Ranks 13

    Los Angeles: Home of the Playboy Bunny, Ashton Kutcher and pet spas. This we all know. But who knew that our town is where the smartest nerds in the world get their degrees on? It's true. According to the latest World University Rankings by Times Higher Education in the UK ...

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2012

    Carmageddon II Could Clean Up 405 Air Pollution By Up to 83 Percent -- UCLA

    See also: *Why Carmageddon II Could Be For Real; 10 Freeway Stretches in L.A. to Avoid. Having to be cooped up for this weekend's Carmageddon II is going to suck (L.A. leaders are encouraging you to keep shopping, so long as you stay away from the 405), especially since a fall heatwave is going to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2012

    Geeks Rejoice: Acne Cure Could be Near as UCLA Discovers Pimple-Eating Virus

    Dear zit-having, computer-programming, getting-your-asses-kicked-at-school teens. Sorry. We know life sucks, but just think, the geeks shall inherit the earth. Someday you be rolling deep in Apple stock and you'll have to use motherboards just to pry the chicks off you. And science, she's breaking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2012

    Wedding Doubts For Women Often Predict Divorce

    Those nagging doubts you have about your fiance? They're probably right. So says a new UCLA study, which concludes that such "pre-wedding uncertainty," more for women than men, predicts unhappy marriages and even divorce. Justin Lavner, the lead author of the study and a UCLA doctoral candidate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2012

    Human Sperm Can Swim in Perfect 3-D Spirals, UCLA Reveals

    One more reason for dudes to walk around like they're hoarding the Eighth World Wonder in their boxer-briefs: UCLA has revealed that human sperm can swim in a gorgeous, nature-perfect, three-dimensional spiral -- not unlike the helix formed by human DNA, aesthetically -- instead of just squiggling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2012

    UCLA-Affiliated 'Dream University' For Undocumented Students Canceled

    UCLA today announced it has pulled the plug on its end of a controversial college that would have catered to undocumented students. The National Dream University was planned under a deal between the UCLA Center for Labor Research and the National Labor College. Attendees would not have been UCLA st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2012

    Marijuana Dispensary Numbers in L.A. Much Lower Than City Claims, Says UCLA

    A recent UCLA count only found 472 dispensaries operating in the city of Los Angeles, despite claims by the L.A. City Attorney's office that there might be as many as 1,046 of them. In 2009 LA Weekly called every listed pot shop in L.A. and counted 545. UCLA associate professor of social welfare B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2012

    7 Movies to See in L.A. This Week, Including Cat Movies as an Art Form

    Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.:

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    Gang Map Study Shows Crime Happens Along Borders Between Sets in L.A.

    If you don't like being shot here in the city of L.A., the gang capital of the nation, the places to avoid are the boundaries between gangs (we have a map of some of the crimes after the jump). That seems to be one of the takeaways of a UCLA-led study published online this week in the journal Crimi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2012

    California Bullet Train's Promise of Jobs is Overstated, Says UCLA

    That $100 billion publicly financed bullet train that would connect Angelenos to the Bay Area for the low, low one-way price of $120 (more, in some cases, than airfare) has more problems than Jay-Z. We reported recently that Golden State voters no longer support the thing: You seem to think buildin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2012

    Marijuana Dispensaries Don't Seem to Lead to Neighborhood Crime -- UCLA Study

    When respected Santa Monica think tank RAND last year withdrew its controversial study suggesting marijuana dispensaries actually reduced crime in their neighborhoods, the momentum on the issue went to the cops: L.A. police have long argued -- citing anecdotal evidence including murder, robbery and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2012

    UCLA Students Occupy Admissions Office, Demand Affirmative Action (VIDEO)

    Update, 7 p.m.: UCLA police confirm to the Daily Bruin that 13 students have been arrested for unlawful assembly. Update, 6:55 p.m.: At least 10 protesters, and by some counts 13, have reportedly been arrested for refusing to leave the Admissions Office. Approximately 30 minority students (and som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2012

    Diddy's Son Justin Combs Gets Full Scholarship to UCLA as Many Students Struggle

    Updated at the bottom with UCLA noting that its athletic scholarships come from non-taxpayer funds. First posted at 8:05 a.m. Should a multimillionaire's son be able to get a free-ride scholarship to a state school that has been struggling with budget cuts and raging student protests? If that son ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2012

    UCLA Business School Wants to Privatize, Forgo Tax Dollars

    As the UC and Cal State systems struggle with budget cuts and increasingly unhappy and unruly student bodies, one UCLA school is bucking the trend and actually inviting more cuts. In fact, UCLA's Anderson School of Management wants zero tax dollars: It's asking to be cut off from the system almost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Watch This Creepy Face Transplant Video Celebrating UCLA's New Surgery Program

    Living in L.A., you know someone, someday will turn this into an opportunity to finally make Joan Rivers attractive. For now, UCLA's foray into the face transplant business seems inspired by disfigured war veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The university announced this week that it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Corn Syrup Can Make You Stupid, Study Finds

    We all know corn syrup can make you fat, but dumb too? According to a new UCLA study published in the May 15 issue of the Journal of Physiology, regular intake of high fructose, such as that found in corn syrup, can negatively impact memory and learning ability -- in as little as six weeks. Resear ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 10, 2012

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Disasters, Technicolor and Bertolucci

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    UCLA Invader Creeps Out Dorm Dwellers, Takes Cash

    Updated at the bottom: An arrest has been made! First posted at 8:03 a.m. It's been a bad academic year for creepy crimes at UCLA. Authorities have had to deal with at least three sexual assaults on campus. And now comes this: A burglar entered two dorm rooms at the Westwood school over the weeke ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 10, 2012

    A to Z Cappella

    Updated at the bottom: An arrest has been made! First posted at 8:03 a.m. It's been a bad academic year for creepy crimes at UCLA. Authorities have had to deal with at least three sexual assaults on campus. And now comes this: A burglar entered two dorm rooms at the Westwood school over the weeke ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 3, 2012

    The Games People Play

    Updated at the bottom: An arrest has been made! First posted at 8:03 a.m. It's been a bad academic year for creepy crimes at UCLA. Authorities have had to deal with at least three sexual assaults on campus. And now comes this: A burglar entered two dorm rooms at the Westwood school over the weeke ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    April 19, 2012

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Tilda, Tsvian and Don Johnson

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    A UCLA Professor Who's Turning Cellphones Into Microscopes to Prevent Disease

    Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. Nearly 6 billion people in the world use cellphones -- and about 70 percent of those users live in developing countries. Those statistics gave UCLA electrical engineering professor Aydogon Ozca ... More >>

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