After two years of virtual commencement ceremonies due to the pandemic, students and their loved ones were able to celebrate in person again this year. The return to an in-person commencement at UCLA also marks the first time the College of Letters and Science undergraduate graduation was spread across three ceremonies to make room for one of UCLA’s largest graduating classes ever.
The graduates are from across the globe, and range in age from 18 to 79. More than 35% are from low-income families, and 36% came to UCLA as transfer students. Approximately one-third are the first generation in their families to graduate from a four-year university.
“At UCLA — like at all of the UC campuses — we measure our value by the positive influence we have on the state, nation and world … and by the effect we have on the lives of the students we serve,” Block said. “While we certainly strive to be excellent, UCLA’s greater focus is squarely on impact.”
The UCLA Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge report assigns grades in four areas (land use and habitat quality; biodiversity; threats to ecosystem health; and community health and well-being) and includes recommendations for policies and actions to improve the county’s environmental health and its residents’ well-being.
Researchers hope community partners and government officials will use the report card as the basis for continued progress, and that they will collaborate with UCLA to improve the grade.
The launch of the UCLA SPACE Institute unites the campus’ wide array of space-related research activities.
In an interview, UCLA professor Bortnik, spoke about why even non-scientists should be intrigued by the study of space and the new opportunities that the institute will create for UCLA scholars.
Regardless of race, ethnicity and even political party preference, two separate UCLA-led surveys reveal that majorities of people in each group support access to legal abortion in the United States. These findings support previous research and literature that shows broad support for legal abortion.
The Supreme Court is expected to overturn or limit Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
Yuzhang Li, assistant professor in UCLA's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, received a Department of Energy (DOE) planning grant for "Revealing Sensitive Battery Liquid-Solid Interfaces via Cryogenic-Electron Microscopy."
New insights from this research will fill an important unmet need for identifying guiding principles to engineer longer-lasting and safer batteries.
The new report estimates that approximately 1.6 million people ages 13 and older identify as transgender in the U.S., including 1.3 million adults and 300,000 youth.
UCLA and all UC campuses, along with colleges and universities across the country, are marking this milestone birthday of the Pell Grant with testimonies from students and alumni who have been able to achieve their higher education aspirations thanks to this seminal federal student aid program. The anniversary underscores the need for Congress to double the Pell Grant maximum award.
So many of the biggest public health issues of our time involve food — from chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers to the effects of climate change on food production, and the alarming rates of food insecurity.
This issue of the magazine highlights some of the many ways in which UCLA faculty, students, and graduates at the Fielding School of Public Health are taking steps, both big and small, to counteract this imbalance and promote an environment in which everyone has access to the affordable, nutritious foods they need to lead healthy and productive lives.
Two linked studies led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and School of Nursing researchers have found strong associations between drug misuse generally and opioid misuse specifically among unemployed Americans, who were found to have a 40% higher likelihood to misuse opioids than those working 35-40 hours per week.
