UCLA Weekly Highlights

UCLA Weekly Highlights delivers a roundup of the top UCLA research, news, events, and more. Delivered to your inbox every Friday. UCLA Weekly Highlights is sent to employees and is published by UCLA Strategic Communications.

April 2026

April 3, 2026

Bruins Back in the Final Four!

Gene therapy drug approved, brand new Bruins, road to the Final Four and more.

March 2026

March 20, 2026

Hope Connects Us

Immunotherapy breakthrough, Dialogue across Difference, spring films and more

March 13, 2026

Hollywood and Diversity: the 2026 Report

The economy, worms, movies in Westwood and more

March 6, 2026

A Bruin and a Homeboy: A Father-Daughter Story

Immune cells, Afrofuturism, Women’s History Month and more

February 2026

February 27, 2026

Bruin Alysa Liu is Golden

An inclusive campus for older adults, a family’s legacy and more

February 20, 2026

The Home of Next-gen Genius

New Sloan fellows, solving cystic fibrosis and more

February 13, 2026

A Forgotten Design, Reimagined

Exoplanets, Bad Bunny and more

February 6, 2026

UCLA Ranks Among the Nation’s Top Producers of Fulbright Student Winners

Black History Month, the Grammys and more

January 2026

January 30, 2026

Still No. 1: UCLA’s Online Engineering Master’s Ranks at the Top

Volunteers in the community, engineers with a cause and more

January 23, 2026

Charting a Safer Path After the L.A. Fires

Pesticides, breaking the rules of chemistry and more