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People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who are recovering from laryngeal cancer surgeries, can often find it difficult or impossible to speak. That may soon change. A team of…

People who find themselves rummaging around in the refrigerator for a snack not long after they’ve eaten a filling meal might have overactive food-seeking neurons, not an overactive appetite. UCLA psychologists have discovered a circuit…

As calls increase for better water quality monitoring and mitigation in rural and economically disadvantaged communities, emerging research adds prisons, jails and detention centers to the areas of concern. A new paper published in the…

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative today announced a $4 million grant to support research led by the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering that will examine cellular behaviors, many of which play a key role in developing immunity to pathogens…

UCLA received a total of 173,400 applications for fall 2024 admission, including 146,250 from first-year applicants and 27,150 from transfer applicants, representing a 2% rise over last year. The increase was largely driven by…

Three UCLA faculty members — Dariush Divsalar, Rong Fu and Jonathan Stewart — have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors granted to American engineers. Academy membership recognizes…

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s online master’s degree program has earned the No. 1 ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 survey of the nation’s best online graduate engineering programs. This is the second year in a row…

One vision for the future of computing involves using ripples in magnetic fields — called magnons — as a basic mechanism. In this application, magnons would be comparable to electricity as the basis for electronics. In conventional…

Scientific research continuously expands our collective knowledge and pushes innovation forward. But what good is that innovation if it isn’t accessible to large swaths of the global population? English is the standard language for most…

A half-decade ago, UCLA neuroscientist Adriana Galván was awarded a grant to pursue research on adolescent brain development at the University of Barcelona through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, which promotes international scholarship…