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.

February 2023

February 17, 2023

UCLA receives $20 million to support microbiome research

The gift comes from Andrea and Donald Goodman and Renee and Meyer Luskin

February 10, 2023

The importance of learning Black history

Q&A with UCLA professor Tyrone Howard

February 3, 2023

Amplifying Black Californians’ voices on reparations

Three UCLA graduate students gathered input from thousands of residents

January 2023

January 27, 2023

A tiny sphere with big possibilities

Study by UCLA physicists could advance understanding of space weather

January 20, 2023

Dust is cool—for the planet

Particles from desert dust storms hide the full extent of global warming

January 13, 2023

Hate — how can we end it?

A new UCLA initiative aims to understand what gives rise to hate, bias and discrimination

January 6, 2023

Linebacker gives youngsters a lift

Bruins’ Shea Pitts has mentored K–12 students throughout Los Angeles

December 2022

December 16, 2022

2022: The year in review

A look at the achievements and milestones that made us proud to be Bruins

December 9, 2022

Forget the World Cup!

UCLA women win it all in one of the most dramatic comebacks in NCAA history

December 2, 2022

The Hammer’s unveiling

The museum building nears the culmination of two decades of metamorphosis