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2025 Administration Transition

Impact of Federal Executive Orders and Directives on Federal Grants and Contracts

40 projects receive 2024 grants for community-engaged scholarship

The funding provides new opportunities to expand and strengthen UCLA’s partnerships with communities throughout Los Angeles.

UCLA librarians advance teaching, research and patient care needs of the UCLA Health enterprise

While managing access to resources and new technologies, librarians have emerged as research partners.

Beyond ‘comfort TV’: Streaming audiences want new offerings, more diverse stories

In the face of a contracting industry, with streamers relying on old or long-running shows, researchers at UCLA sought to find where future success lies for the small screen.

If AI isn’t ‘learning’ like us, can it think like us?

UCLA psychologist Keith Holyoak will discuss consciousness, creativity and machine learning during his Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 11.

UCLA’s Jason De León wins National Book Award for Nonfiction

The professor and alumnus is the second Bruin to win the award in two years.

Jack Bobo, Amy Rowat named directors of UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies

Biophysicist Amy Rowat spearheads new graduate fellowship program to cultivate leaders in sustainable food systems.

Indigenous knowledge, histories and futures are woven throughout PST Art projects at UCLA and beyond

Indigenous perspectives are threaded throughout “PST ART: Art & Science Collide” at UCLA venues and across the regional art event.

One Billion Dollars.

That’s the average amount UCLA has received to fund research projects each year since 2009-10.

UCLA research and creative activities have generated some of the most transformative breakthroughs in modern times. From revolutionizing medical diagnostics and treatment to laying the framework to create the Internet or reshaping our understanding of the human condition, UCLA's research impact extends around the globe. 

As one of the world’s top research universities, UCLA has the intellectual capital and extensive research facilities necessary to tackle society’s most challenging issues. And as a public research university, we take seriously our mission to develop solutions that improve the quality of life in our community, our country and around the world. Included among our faculty, alumni and researchers are 14 Nobel Prize winners, 13 faculty MacArthur Fellows, a Fields medalist, two Turing Award winners, and three Pulitzer Prize winners. Explore our site to learn more about us, research highlights, resources for researchers, how to engage with UCLA research and our initiatives.

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Organization of Research Enterprise

Experienced teams provide support services to enable researchers to pursue inquiries and discovery.

Learn more about the subsidiary offices that help to administer and support research and creative activities conducted at UCLA.