Saturday, August 22

In the news:


Professor offers insight into human behavior

Dressed in a suit with two earrings in his left ear, Jay Phelan reclined back in his chair and put his feet up on his desk as he talked about a few of his favorite things: data, science and teaching. Read more...

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Jay Phelan, a professor and evolutionary biologist in the life sciences department at UCLA, speaks in a lecture. Phelan recently co-authored the second edition of “Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts” with Chapman University professor Terry Burnham.






Obama nominates UCLA alumna to U.S District Court

The judge had returned from a weekend that held a significant milestone for her and fellow Bruins: the UCLA football team's victory over USC. Read more...

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President Barack Obama nominated UCLA alumna Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell to the United States District Court for the Central District of California. O’Connell earned a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and still holds season tickets for UCLA football games ““ she attended Saturday’s game against USC.