The “10 Questions” lecture series, which will address a different question each week, doubles as a course for students and a panel open to the public. The series will explore open-ended questions such as “What is beauty?”, “What is failure?” and “What is knowledge?” Each week’s panel will feature two faculty members from the School […]
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’10 Questions’ lecture addresses memory, storytelling and capacity to change
The “10 Questions” lecture series, which will address a different question each week, doubles as a course for students and a panel open to the public. The series will explore open-ended questions such as “What is beauty?”, “What is failure?” and “What is knowledge?” Each week’s panel will feature two faculty members from the School […]
Campus Queries: How did dogs become domesticated?
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Where did dogs come from? A: If dogs seem preternaturally suited to humans, that’s because they are. Dogs emerged as a different subspecies from gray wolves about 20 to 30 thousand years […]
Anthropology professor helps create website to track baby monkey in Costa Rica
A new website allows students to virtually follow a monkey through a jungle more than 3,000 miles from UCLA in an effort to engage the public with science through technology. Susan Perry, a professor in the department of anthropology , led the project and has been studying capuchin monkeys in the Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve […]
Campus Queries: What drives us to eat for pleasure?
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Why do we eat for pleasure, instead of for necessity? A: A recent UCLA study suggests the answer lies with the microorganisms that populate the human gut. The study, an interdisciplinary collaboration […]