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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 >>

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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 >>

Stem Cells Can Seek And Destroy HIV

Why in the hell did George W. Bush dislike stem-cell research again? It turns out that there's almost nothing these little babies can't do, and this week UCLA came up with a humdinger of a headline when it announced that stem cells it developed have been proven to seek and destroy HIV. Really. Sor ... More >>

Forget Viagra: Guns Make Men Appear Larger, UCLA Says

Does this gun make my butt look big? No, but if you're a guy, it could indeed make you appear larger and meaner. That's according to a UCLA statement about the study, which says ...

USC, UCLA Make National Top 10 Wish Lists of Would-Be Students, Parents

USC and UCLA barely made the top 25 of U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Colleges rankings, but the crosstown rivals seem to do just find in other contests (and we're not just talking football and basketball). The London Times' Higher Education rankings recently placed UCLA at number 9 -- one ... More >>

UCLA Graffiti Calls Out Latina Students: Police Are Looking For Idiots And Treating Case as Hate Crime

UCLA students living near campus were targeted with anti-Latino graffiti this week, prompting university police to launch a hate-crime investigation, according to reports. The UCLA Daily Bruin says the graffiti on an apartment door, stairs and a nearby fence have messages such as, "you rude ignoran ... More >>

The Moth's Experts Share the Secrets to Successful Storytelling

The key to quality storytelling isn't necessarily to be funny. At least that's what some of the folks lined up to participate in The Moth Mainstage event Rush: Stories of Ticking Clocks at UCLA's Royce Hall on Thursday, March 1 are probably hoping is true. In addition to host Rudy Rush (Showtime at ... More >>

Food Poisoning Detector Coming to Your Smartphone?

Want to check if that meat is really spoiled, or just smells off? UCLA reports that a new attachment for smartphones may be able to detect E. coli and Salmonella contamination and save you from a trip to the emergency room. Researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Scie ... More >>

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Valentine's Day Is Actually May 3, Says UCLA Researcher

If you ever wondered why we celebrate love and romance in the middle of winter, with fresh spring-like flowers, no less, a UCLA professor has the answer: We're wrong. The director of UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Henry Ansgar Kelly, says we got the date mixed up (wouldn't be ... More >>

UCLA Scientists Invent Cheap, Bendy Solar Panels That Could Charge Your Car, Phone

This is the handiest thing to come out of UCLA since those stretchy, glowing devices that can "move with the body." (Aka, a raver's dreamwear.) Now, UCLA is expanding its stretch-nology into the Big Green industry. A new method of collecting the sun's energy and using it to power man's devices is ... More >>

New Galaxy Discovered by UCLA Researchers (Really), but It's a 'Dwarf'

UCLA researchers today announced that they've discovered a new galaxy. And not just any galaxy, but a "dwarf galaxy." Despite its relatively Manny Pacquiao-like dimensions, the new-to-us baby known as NGC 4449B is, when stretched out, bigger than the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, according to ... More >>

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Sexual Assault on UCLA Campus: Third One This School Year

Daily Bruin / YouTubeThe Saxon Steps, a.k.a. the "Rape Trail."​Updated at the bottom: Investigators have leads in the latest case. First posted at 5:50 p.m. A UCLA student was sexually assaulted on campus early today, according to campus police. The attack happened about 2:20 a.m. "at the to ... More >>

Nation's College Freshmen More Liberal, Hardworking Than Years Past: UCLA Report

The Daily TrojanThe youth is starting to change, brah.​The freshman class of 2011 is challenging the "lazy millennial" stereotype that has come to define Generation Y, according to a nationwide survey conducted by UCLA. "On the academic front, students showed more positive behaviors consiste ... More >>

Once Legally Blind, Now They Can See, Thanks to Amazing Stem-Cell Research at UCLA

Amazing news from UCLA this week: Stem cells developed by Jules Stein Eye Institute researchers have been used to help two legally blind people achieve "modest improvement in their vision," according to the university. Hallelujah. The findings were published this week in The Lancet, a leading med ... More >>

Drinking Alcohol Can More Than Double Your Life Span ... if You're a Worm

Golden Globes​Great news, Ricky Gervais. Alcohol can more than double your lifespan ... if you're a worm. The brainiacs at UCLA have discovered that giving 1 millimeter-long roundworms just a little nip of hooch dramatically increased their time on earth. Steven Clarke, a UCLA professor of ... More >>

Latinos Invade UCLA For Fall 2012: Applications up For All Ethnic Groups

JMRosenfeld​Sorry, you AM-talk-show-listening Latino-haters out there, but the brown nation is busting down the doors at UCLA. In fact -- gasp -- minorities are largely responsible for the Westwood campus' 12.7 percent increase in applications for fall. It's the most diverse applicant pool i ... More >>

Scientists Can Now Officially Read Your Mind, UCLA Declares

Strain Brain​Not that it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what men are thinking about 90 percent of the time. But still, don't you find UCLA's revelation just a little scary? The school's Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology is boasting this week that it has pioneered "br ... More >>

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Occupy UCLA Crops up on Campus With 25 Tents: School Warns it Probably Won't be Tolerated

Occupy UCLA Facebook​Updated at the bottom with arrests. Originally posted at 1:39 p.m. yesterday Occupy L.A.'s 400-plus tent encampment, which some have speculated is the largest Occupy village in the nation now that the movements in Oakland and Manhattan have been ejected, has some competi ... More >>

Free Lunch For Needy UCLA Students: Are Things Really That Bad?

Cup Noodles / Nissin Foods​The whole idea behind state schools like UCLA and Cal State campuses was that anyone could get a world-class education -- you didn't need to be a Vanderbilt (or, to be more current, a Vanderpump). But as the state budget has constricted education spending and flowe ... More >>

UCLA Scientists Invent HIV-Blocking Anal Gel

cure.med.ucla.eduDr. Peter Anton, who led the study.​In the worldwide race to cure HIV, researchers out of Los Angeles have made some of the biggest recent breakthroughs. By late 2009, UCLA had discovered human blood stem cells could be used to fight HIV-infected cells. And by this August, USC ... More >>

Gang Rivalries Figured Out by UCLA Computer Algorithm That's Almost as Good as Street Knowledge

This 18th Streeter has a high probability of not liking M.S.​Researchers at UCLA say they might have found a magic bullet when it comes to solving gang crime: A computer algorhithm. A study destined for a future edition of the mathematical journal Inverse Problems analyzed 1,000 gang crimes t ... More >>

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Near-Nude Streaker at UCLA-Arizona Game Inspires Confused Players to Brawl

YouTubeWinning streak.​We give this guy big points for figuring out a way -- Hollywood comedy-flick-style -- of getting on a football field unnoticed in order to perform his big prank: Taking off most of his clothes and streaking just before halftime at UCLA's game against the University of A ... More >>

Transgender Students Could Cross Opposite-Sex Roommate Divide at UCLA Under Proposed Campus Dorm Policy

Sam T​Traditional on-campus roomy situations at UCLA almost always involve boys living with boys and girls living with girls. But what if you're a boy who looks like a girl and is in the process of becoming a girl? Could you still live with a girl? That's a possibility because ...

Sex Assault, Another Attempt to Grab Student Have UCLA on Edge

Chris RadcliffUCLA is on alert.​It looks like a rapist might be on the loose at UCLA. Police on campus warned students this week about a sexual assault and an attempt to grab a woman that both happened on Saturday on or near campus. The victims are students. In both cases the suspect, descri ... More >>

Sex Assault, Separate Grab at Student Have UCLA on Edge

It looks like a rapist might be on the loose at UCLA. Police on campus warned students this week about a sexual assault and a separate grab at a woman that both happened Saturday on or near campus. The victims are students. In both cases the suspect, described as a white man in his mid-30s to 40s ... More >>

Sexy Advertising Really Works, Says UCLA Study: No Duh, Says Hooters

hootersmagazine.comFor some reason a beer sounds good right about now.​You'd like to think that your fellow Americans respond to facts and figures when going out to buy stuff. You'd be partly right. But a new UCLA study conducted in conjunction with George Washington University found that sex ... More >>

Happy Gene Discovered by UCLA Researchers (And it's Not Called Cocaine)

AirplaneHappy!​A UCLA psychology professor claims to have found the happy gene. The gene, the school reports this week, has been linked to optimism, self-esteem and mastery, or what UCLA explains as "the belief that one has control over one's own life." Well, we have news for you, "distingui ... More >>

USC Beats UCLA in U.S. News & World Report's Annual Rankings of Top American Universities

​It's bad enough for us Bruins to have to endure the constant beat downs by USC in football (even when team's not even post-season eligible). But these U.S. News & World Report rankings are too much. Once again USC has edged out UCLA in its list of top-flight national universities, with the ... More >>

iPhones That Charge Themselves? There's a Future Hack For That, Thanks to UCLA Researchers

hotgirlswithiphones.com​Okay, hipsters. Don't all jizz yourselves at once. But it looks like UCLA researchers have discovered a way for you to revive your juiced iPhone with solar rays -- no ad-on charger necessary. Well, in theory, anyway. This is some year-2000 future shit. Your fellow gee ... More >>

A Raver's Dreamwear: UCLA Invents Stretchy, Glowing Devices 'That Can Move With Body'

So yesterday.​Update: Indeed, a UCLA scientist tells us the stretchable LEDs will one day be used for clothing, and -- exceeding our most rave-tastic expectations -- be able to "display videos." Details after the jump. Originally posted at 12:35 p.m. When UCLA scientists unveiled a fine new ... More >>

Holy Apocalypto: Ancient War Resulted in ... Civilization? UCLA Researchers Say Hooah to That

ApocalyptoMel Gibson's a genius.​War, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Come again? UCLA researchers might beg to differ, Senor Edwin Starr. Research suggests that ancient battles of the Apocalypto variety might have spawned the earliest vestiges of civilization, namely buil ... More >>

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Running, Exercise (Sex?) Could Make You Smarter, UCLA Research Indicates

San Diego Shooter​You're jogging briskly and in the zone and all of a sudden you want to write that book you've been meaning to pen and take that night class you've wanted to sign up for. You're invigorated. You're smart! Yeah, who knew a jock pursuit like getting your heart rate up might act ... More >>

UCLA Students Slapped With 2.75% 'Convenience Fee' For Paying Tuition With Credit Cards

Pay up, Bruins.​As if paying triple in tuition what students ponied up 10 years ago isn't enough (along with an additional 8 percent hike for next year), UCLA students who cover their tabs with credit cards will be slapped with another fee: A 2.75 percent "convenience fee," the university say ... More >>

Ching Chong Ling Long Gourmet Takeout: From YouTube to Take-Out

Creative Commons: Mykl Roventine​ The internet has allowed for the dissemination of stupidity at a rate greater than anyone could have imagined. Witness (now ex-) UCLA student Alexandra Wallace. Her rant, ostensibly about Asians talking on cell phones in the library but touching on subjects ... More >>

'No Recovery in Sight,' Says UCLA Anderson Forecast

Adam TinworthShop for America.​Things were looking up there for a second, right? Unemployment was creeping down, people were starting buy houses again, you got the new iPhone. And then, boom: Housing prices went toilet-bound again, unemployment barely budged, and the stock market is experie ... More >>

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USC Students Have More Sex Than UCLA Rivals, According to OkCupid

John Martinez PavligaWoot-woot: USC slaps UCLA, again.​USC Trojans. With a name like that, it figures that the young men and woman of Troy are claiming yet another victory over crosstown rival UCLA. Yep, Trojans have more sex than Bruins. Duh. Trojans were practically made for sex. That USC ... More >>

Asians in the Library's Revenge: UCLA Accepts Freshman Class That's 45 Percent Asian American

'Revenge of the Nerds'Nerds.​You knew there would be some revenge of the Asians after Alexandra Wallace's racist YouTube rant about "Asians in the library" at UCLA. And here it is. The fall, 2011 freshman class just admitted by the school is a whopping 45 percent Asian and Asian American, rep ... More >>

Animal Rights Radicals at UCLA Taken on Tonight by KCET's 'SoCal Connected'

KCETAn animal rights protester.​The aggro opposition to animal research has targeted UCLA professors at their homes, scaring some into quitting that business. The crusade against animal testing has resulted in three car bombings, a home invasion and death threats. Tonight on KCET SoCal Conne ... More >>

Animal Testing Wars in Los Angeles Ramp Up: On Five Billboards, the Foundation for Biomedical Research Urges Support for Rat Research

UCLALatest billboard​When it comes to medical research on animals, one thing is certain: lots of folks don't like what's going on at UCLA, and the school doesn't much appreciate the more extreme animal activists. Over the years, faculty members and researchers have been the target of bombs, lette ... More >>

First Successful Hand Transplant in Western U.S. is Achieved at UCLA -- after the Fingerprints got a Background Check

UCLA Health System/ Ann Johansson PhotographyFuturamaaaa!​Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed a 14-and-a-half hour hand transplant this weekend.The hand traveled from San Diego to become the first ever hand transplant in the western U.S. The Futurama-esque procedure has decid ... More >>