Nearly 4,900 students plan to enroll as freshmen at UCLA for fall 2008

A record 4,889 students representing a broad section of talents, interests and passions have indicated they intend to enroll at UCLA for fall 2008. The intended freshmen are among 12,579 admitted to UCLA out of a record 55,397 applicants ― more applicants than any other university in the country.

Obituary: Murray E. Jarvik, 84, UCLA pharmacologist, nicotine patch inventor

Dr. Murray E. Jarvik, emeritus professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at UCLA and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, died May 8 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long struggle with congestive heart failure. He was 84.

Laurence and Lori Fink give $10 million to endow UCLA Anderson finance center

The UCLA Anderson School of Management has received a $10 million gift from Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, and his wife, Lori W. Fink, to provide essential funding for the school’s center for finance, UCLA Anderson dean Judy Olian announced today.

Study uses music to explore the autistic brain's emotion processing

In an innovative study led by Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, a researcher at the UCLA Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, music will be used as a tool to explore the ability of children with autism spectrum disorders to identify emotions in musical excerpts and facial expressions.

Does drug product placement on TV require new regulations?

With more and more branded consumer products finding their way directly into popular television sitcoms and dramas, are prescription drugs soon to follow? Pharmaceutical product placement in TV shows is a very real possibility that warrants attention from the federal Food and Drug Administration and other policymakers, a new UCLA report argues.

Global warming will negatively impact tropical species, study shows

Global warming is likely to reduce the health of tropical species, scientists from UCLA and the University of Washington report in a study published May 6 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. At the same time, a little bit of warming may actually move certain organisms, particularly insects, in the high latitudes closer to their optimal temperature, the researchers say.

3 UCLA professors elected to National Academy of Sciences

Fields Medal—winning mathematician Terence Tao is one of three UCLA professors elected Tuesday to the National Academy of Sciences for their excellence in original scientific research.

Stem cell researchers create heart, blood cells from skin cells

Stem cell researchers at UCLA have grown functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The finding is the first to show that induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells ― which don't involve the use of embryos or eggs ― can be differentiated into the three types of cardiovascular cells needed to repair the heart and blood vessels.

Bill Clinton, U.S. Rep. Waxman top list of UCLA commencement speakers

Former President Bill Clinton, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman and a host of other distinguished speakers will deliver keynote remarks at UCLA's commencement ceremonies, which begin May 9 and run through June 14.   This year, UCLA will...

Antidepressant alleviates symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome in adolescents

Researchers at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA have found that low-dose antidepressant therapy can significantly improve the overall quality of life for adolescents suffering from irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS.