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UCLA Library will welcome 20 top academic library managers to campus this summer for its biennial senior fellows program.The residential program, which will be held this year July 11 to 29, combines management perspectives and tools for…

Through a University of California agreement with the American Chemical Society, UCLA and UC-affiliated corresponding authors will receive support for open access publication in ACS’ portfolio of more than 75 premier chemistry journals…

It began with internet sleuthing 6,000 miles east of Westwood, and the spotting of a telltale purple ownership stamp.It was the unmistakable ink mark of the Jewish Community Library in Prague, Czech Republic, hiding in plain sight on the…

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum lets…

New UCLA-led research finds that in states with bans on affirmative action programs, the proportion of students from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups in U.S. public medical schools fell by more than one-third by five…

Three UCLA professors — Dr. E. Dale Abel, Robert Bjork and Rosa Matzkin — have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. They are among the 120…

The vaquita porpoise, the world’s smallest marine mammal, is on the brink of extinction, with 10 or fewer still living in Mexico’s Gulf of California, their sole habitat. But a genetic analysis by a team of UCLA biologists and colleagues…

Los Angeles County residents are not happy.They don’t like paying more for gasoline, fresh eggs or electricity. They’re worried about their family’s health and their children’s education. They don’t like hearing that homelessness and…

Will all Californians have a chance to enjoy good health in the coming 100 years? What steps can policymakers and health care leaders take to make that happen?These questions are tackled in a time-jumping research report released today by…

A UCLA-led team of researchers studying the effect of the monoclonal antibody Leronlimab on long COVID-19 may have found a surprising clue to the baffling syndrome. Their finding, that an abnormally suppressed immune system may be to…