UCLA study: L.A. neighborhoods show striking differences in transit-related...
UCLA researchers pitted four Los Angeles neighborhoods head-to-head to compare their air pollution levels and found that while more affluent neighborhoods generally fared better, the Mar Vista...
View ArticleBeauty and the Beastie Boys
Kal Raustiala is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. Raustiala's research focuses on international law and politics and on intellectual property. Christopher Jon Sprigman is a professor at the New...
View ArticleAnalyze This: Social Media Measurement Expert Gives PR a 5-Step Process for...
Bulldog Reporter's PR University Presents a New Master Class Webinar Oakland, CA - (NewMediaWire) - December 13, 2013 - PR professionals looking to prove their value to the C-suite with hard facts that...
View ArticleNew Half-Day Boot Camp on What's New & What's Working in Hospital PR &...
Bulldog Reporter's PR University Presents a New Half-Day Intensive Training Oakland, CA - (NewMediaWire) - December 14, 2013 - PR professionals looking to master every major facet of hospital and...
View ArticleMuseum looks toward Expansion to Provide Cultural Opportunities
BURBANK, CA - (NewMediaWire) - December 15, 2013 - The Martial Arts History Museum launches a year-end giving campaign in its effort to expand the Museum and provide additional educational platforms in...
View ArticleQ&A: Professor Phillip Atiba Goff on America’s first national database...
For the first time in American history, a majority of police chiefs from the so-called 70 major cities, along with others from small and medium-sized cities, are reaching out to researchers to...
View ArticleUC reaches tentative agreement with two labor groups
The University of California has reached tentative agreement with two labor groups for multi-year contracts covering more than 12,000 health care, research and technical employees systemwide. The two...
View ArticleWomen's aquatics: Making waves
Watching the 34 members of UCLA’s women’s swimming and diving team go through their afternoon practice at Spieker Aquatics Center is quite different from watching most other sports’ practices. Senior...
View ArticleWith new multimillion-dollar grants, UCLA scientists take stem cell research...
Scientists from UCLA are now bringing their groundbreaking stem cell science directly to patients in two exciting new clinical trials scheduled to begin in early 2014, thanks to funding from...
View ArticleUCLA Ethnomusicology Department announces events for winter 2014
The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology at the Herb Alpert School of Music is offering a series of events for the public's enjoyment during the winter quarter, including performances and academic...
View ArticleUCLA Department of Design | Media Arts announces events for winter 2014
The UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts (DMA) is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter, including exhibitions and lectures. For events at the UCLA Broad Art...
View ArticleUCLA Department of Art announces events for winter 2014
The UCLA Department of Art is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter, including exhibitions and public lectures. Programs are subject to change. For updated information and...
View ArticleFor migraine sufferer, when words fail, pictures intervene
Rachael Jablo has had chronic migraines since 2008. If she doesn't take medication, the pain is so severe that she cannot speak. Unfortunately, a side effect of the medication is that she forgets...
View ArticleAchieveIt Receives $1.5M in Funding from Buckhead Investment Partners
Atlanta, GA - (NewMediaWire) - December 17, 2013 - Atlanta-based firm AchieveIt Online, LLC, has received a Series C investment of $1.5 million from The BIP Opportunities Fund II, LP, and Buckhead...
View ArticleHealth R&D Spending Moves Slowly Upward, Driven by Industry, Philanthropy and...
Federal R&D Funding Remains “Woefully Inadequate” to Address Health Threats and Global Competitiveness FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
View ArticleUCLA study challenges long-held hypothesis that iron promotes atherosclerosis
A UCLA research team has found no evidence of an association between iron levels in the body and the risk of atherosclerosis, the hardening and narrowing of the arteries that leads to cardiovascular...
View ArticleUCLA scientist verifies world's earliest depiction of volcanic eruption
A scientist, together with a graduate student, used cutting-edge research tools at UCLA to help Turkish archaeologists decipher a large, neolithic mural that many believe is the world's earliest...
View ArticleHumiliating fat people is hazardous to our health
Abigail C. Saguy, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA sociology department, is the author of "What’s Wrong with Fat?" (Oxford University Press, 2013). This piece was published Dec. 17 on the...
View ArticleFAST & UP FAT BURNER SUPPLEMENT PROVIDES NATURAL SUPPORT FOR NEW YEAR WEIGHT...
Los Angeles, CA - (NewMediaWire) - December 17, 2013 - Ortu Traders, a Los Angeles based importer and exclusive distributor of Fast & Up Effervescent Supplements in the U.S., is launching Fat...
View ArticleUCLA then and now: In the footsteps of Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams and his camera. Photo courtesy of UCLA Magazine.Fifty years ago, a bearded man with a Hasselblad stood on UCLA’s North Campus, his camera pointed at the new sculpture garden and the...
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