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Division of Physical Sciences
A Million Grains of Sand to Make a Beach
Six years ago, when John and Lauren Liberati were establishing an endowment to support graduate students in the physics department, they had one caveat: they didn’t want to give any criteria for how the recipient was chosen.
As NEOWISE Comes to an End, NEO Surveyor Prepares for Launch
After more than a decade of mapping the sky, NASA’s NEOWISE telescope, the Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, was officially decommissioned last week. During its nearly 15-year run, NEOWISE observed the cosmos at infrared wavelengths and collected data on more than 740 million objects, including stars, galaxies and potentially hazardous asteroids. But the mission that…
How to define a planet
UCLA Professor proposes a new definition of planets with more specific criteria.
UCLA MACS Program Graduates First Cohort
The novel professional 2-year program has the strong support of global industry leaders
UCLA Undergraduate Student Team Wins NASA TechLeap Prize
Students in the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department are finalists in the NASA Techleap competition to build a universal interface to support payload integration onto various commercial suborbital vehicles, orbital platforms, and planetary landers
Transformar los datos en empatía: cómo reinventé mi pasión en UCLA
Estadística y ciencias de datos me ayudó a construir una aplicación de salud mental y a convertir los retos personales en una fuerza de cambio.
Fulbright Awardee Connects with Her Roots Working With the Vietnamese Deaf community
Computational & Systems Biology undergraduate researcher Elise Ỷ-lan Tran has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to visit Vietnam to conduct research aimed at assisting the Deaf community.
The Carbon Cycle and Solid Earth Connection Redefined
UCLA researchers’ work upends our understanding of the connections between the solid Earth dynamics and the long-term carbon cycle, with implications for the search for life in outer space.
Zvi Bern Elected to National Academy of Sciences
The UCLA professor joins 120 other new members in 2024.