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UCLA Sex Assault Attempt Prompts Manhunt (PHOTOS)

Only a few weeks into the school year and UCLA is searching for a sexual predator who attempted to attack on campus this weekend, cops said. The suspect tried to grab a female student at Rieber Hall, a residential building on campus, but was thwarted when two witnesses saw the crime and he fled, gr ... More >>

World's No. 1 University is Right Here in L.A.

When we think of great college towns, Boston, New York and Philadelphia come to mind. But Los Angeles, barely even on the map when those cities' schools were turning out world leaders, might just be king. See also: USC, UCLA Tied in Academic Ranking. The latest Times Higher Education World Univers ... More >>

Hollywood Still Discriminates Against Queer Actors, UCLA Study Says

UCLA and SAG-AFTRA recently released a condemning report that shows LGBT actors believe they still face discrimination in the workplace, particularly by casting directors, directors, and producers. "The survey results show both progress and indications that more work will be necessary to make the w ... More >>

In a First, UCLA Sucks 2-Foot Blood Clot Out of Man's Body

Nowadays doctors can suck all kinds of stuff out of you -- fat, tumors, your last dollar. But a 2 foot blood clot. Ew. (See the gross photo on the next page). The use of an AngioVac to pull the clot out of Todd Dunlap's body at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center probably saved the 62-year-old's life ... More >>

Does Facebook Help Prevent HIV?

Facebook has been blamed for everything from causing narcissistic behavior to influencing teens to smoke and drink more. But UCLA has revealed that Facebook can also do some good. In a recent study by UCLA researchers, it was found that using behavioral science methods as well as social media such ... More >>

10 Hottest Professors Teaching in L.A.

It's been said that Los Angeles has its share, perhaps more than its share, of attractive people. And so it stands to reason that some of them might be teaching in our 67 or so colleges and universities, assigning us homework, grading our papers, asking to see us during their office hours, and so fo ... More >>

USC, UCLA Tied in Academic Ranking

As if USC and UCLA needed any more fuel for their decades-long crosstown rivalry, the latest US News Best Colleges ranking has the schools neck-and-neck. Yep. This year USC and UCLA will not only battle over which campus has the best football team, best basketball squad, or hottest students. They'l ... More >>

SoCal is Tops For Socially Conscious Universities

Sure, California has its share of globally recognized universities, including Stanford, Caltech and UC Berkeley. But do we have schools that offer reasonable tuition rates (or at least some help paying for school) and a sense of social consciousness? We do. The magazine Washington Monthly recently ... More >>

Sex Addiction is Fake; People Are Just Horny

Turns out if you like a lot of sex you just like a lot of sex. You're a horny bastard, plain and simple. Researchers at UCLA recently got to the bottom of sex-addiction-as-mental-disorder and agreed with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:

The End of Snow-Capped Mountains for L.A?

Admit it: You take Southern California for granted. Surfing in the summer. Snowboarding in the winter. Gorgeous natural scenery all year long. That might not last forever. In fact a UCLA study released today says that we could lose a vast majority of our snow by the end of the century as a result o ... More >>

How One UCLA Class Created an Entire TV Pilot

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Marcela Santibanez-Gomez has lived in the U.S. for less than a year. In that time, she's already co-produced her first TV pilot, doubleblind, a sci-fi thriller. But this pilot isn't for a network -- or even cable -- and Santibanez-Gomez didn't do it alone. ... More >>

Smog, Freeway Emissions Can Be Stroke, Heart Attack Risks

You've heard of good and bad cholesterol before, right? Fish oil good, Big breakfast with hotcakes bad. Simple enough. Maybe not. UCLA researchers this week announced that merely breathing some of the air around here could turn your good cholesterol into bad. And that's before you even hit the driv ... More >>

The Games We Play

Body Image Obsession Can Be Serious Brain Issue, UCLA Says

People who can't pass a mirror without checking themselves out and then obsess over any little blemish or out-of-place hair have a name: Angelenos! No, really, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is what describes folks with extreme self-image problems. And UCLA researchers recently discovered that it's ... More >>

On Earth Day, UCLA Bans Smoking Forever

If you go to UCLA, you can sign up for military service and die for your country. You can vote (if you're at least 18). You drink (if you're 21). And you can take THC semi-legally, if you have a doctor's blessing (and keep it to yourself). But you can't smoke on campus. Starting today the Westwood ... More >>

One in 4 Angelenos Breathes Toxic Freeway Air Every Morning

On some crisp, spring mornings you can almost taste the ocean, even as far inland as downtown. L.A.'s air is magnitudes cleaner than it was in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, when you could cut a slice and serve it with a dollop of whipped cream. So a revelation this week by UCLA researchers could come ... More >>

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:

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 >>

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:"

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Two Plays About Big Ideas

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

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 ...

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 >>

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 >>

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 ...

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 >>

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 >>

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:

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 ...

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>