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The Los Angeles Times reported on “Small Lots, Big Impacts,” an initiative spearheaded by UCLA’s cityLAB that is focused on transforming small, vacant, privately owned parcels of land in Los Angeles into thoughtfully designed “gentle density” housing — such as duplexes, fourplexes and townhome communities — to be sold at more reasonable prices than LA’s long-venerated single-family homes. UCLA’s Dana Cuff, director of cityLAB, and Emmanuel Proussaloglou were quoted. Read more about UCLA in the New York Times, Washington Post and BBC.

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UCLA professor Amy Mainzer on our sun’s remarkable star quality

Protein design algorithms may help unlock secrets of biology and transform the treatment of previously untreatable diseases.

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NEWSROOM SURVEY GRAPHIC: “UCLA Newsroom survey graphic with a clipboard and checkmark, inviting readers to help shape UCLA Newsroom: ‘You read. We listen.’”

Newsroom Survey graphic inviting readers to take a survey and help shape future coverage, featuring a blue speech bubble with a clipboard and checkmark and the message, “You read. We listen.”

Amy Mainzer, in a blue denim shirt, posed in front of a dramatic solar eclipse against a star-filled space background.

CNN Business reported on the correlation between AI’s historic investor surge and spikes in unemployment. Economist Ben Hyman, a senior researcher at the California Policy Lab at UCLA, said unemployment claims are rising in California “among workers who were formerly in highly AI-exposed occupations, especially those who are advanced-degree holders in the Bay Area and in technology-adjacent sectors.” A recent analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco showed that unemployed people with advanced degrees are among the groups struggling the most to find a job. Read more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and others.

The UCLA Labor Center highlights female rickshaw operators who are organizing to transform their work and their lives in a traditionally male-dominated profession.