UCLA faculty recently received professional development awards honoring its research and teaching successes. Almost 90 lecturers won the annual Unit 18 professional development awards, UCLA announced Tuesday. The awards, which are distributed by the Non-Senate Council on Professional Development, support lecturers that have developed proposals to improve teaching. The prize provides awardees with funds to […]
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CALeDNA program assesses biodiversity in California soil
Volunteers throughout California are heeding a call by UCLA researchers to map California’s biodiversity and preserve the state’s environmental history. The project, CALeDNA, aims to assess Californian biodiversity across numerous habitats using soil samples collected by citizen scientists. CALeDNA is funded by the President’s Research Catalyst Awards. University of California President Janet Napolitano instituted the […]
Grad students organize hackathon to preserve at-risk climate change data
While President Donald Trump was being sworn into office Friday, a team of hackers and data scientists were already working to preserve government information that could disappear within hours. Four UCLA graduate students organized the data rescue event with the intent to archive environmental policy websites considered at-risk under the Trump administration. Britt Paris, a […]
Williams Institute to focus research on LGBTQ discrimination
The Williams Institute at UCLA is reorienting the scope of its research to investigate LGBTQ discrimination post-marriage equality. On Thursday, former UCLA law professor Russell Robinson presented an article at the UCLA School of Law, in which he discussed perception of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights following marriage equality. Jody Herman, a researcher […]
Graduate students connect LA schools to environmental issues
UCLA graduate students are encouraging young Angelenos to take ownership of their natural environments. Osceola Ward, a graduate student in Africana Studies, is encouraging high school students to reconnect with their natural environments by organizing outdoor trips through the environmental education program Outward Bound Adventures. Ward said he was an instructor at Outward Bound Adventures […]
UCLA study finds transgender adults more racially, ethnically diverse
In a recent study, UCLA researchers found transgender adults are more racially and ethnically diverse in comparison to the general United States population. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which published the study in October, also found that transgender adults who identified with a certain race were significantly more likely to live […]
Researchers discover new method to identify origins of schizophrenia
UCLA researchers unveiled a new method to trace the origins of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. The study attempts to reveal how the configuration of chromosomes in the brain can influence an individual’s likelihood to become schizophrenic. Hyejung Won, a postdoctoral fellow and lead author of the study, said the research team used a technology called […]