In a world where climate change’s repercussions reverberate globally, the call for understanding and action has never been more urgent. UC Online introduces SAS 025V Global Climate Change: Convergence of Biological, Geophysical, & Social Sciences, a course that seeks to demystify the complexities of our changing environment. 
This upcoming Spring quarter, students are invited to explore the interconnected disciplines shaping our response to the formidable challenge of climate change.

According to the Entertainment Software Association, at least one gamer lives in 75 percent of American households. From sandbox games to sports simulations and real-time strategy arenas, video games remain a popular escapist entertainment appropriate for most ages.

Human survival relies on Earth’s ecosystems. Natural resources exist as an essential component of life in the form of food, fuel and raw materials. However, when unchecked product use persists, satisfying the ever-increasing needs of the human population comes at the expense of finite resource availability and physical environment longevity. 

Speaking, writing and reading are vital to everyday life, where language remains the primary tool for expression and communication. Each language is like a one-of-a-kind species, capturing unique conceptualizations of the world while facilitating the construction of words and sentences that disseminate beliefs.

Expanding beyond his career as a UCLA computer science professor, Medy Sanadidi’s long-suppressed “foodie” side launched him into the exciting culinary arts world 20 years into his career.

Los Angeles native, Colette Shelton, “Coco,” is a triple threat in the professional world. As an executive turned interior design blogger turned tech start-up founder at Chirpyest.

“My son Charlie was six weeks premature, and if he hadn’t been born early my late husband, Ryan, wouldn’t have been able to meet him. It was the emergency UCLA blood transfusions that were able to keep him alive for four more weeks, long enough to be in the room when Charlie was born and rest his head on the incubator after.

Deciphering answers to unknown phenomena, filling in knowledge gaps, and enhancing the ways people can operate in their daily lives are some of the many ways research fosters a more advanced society.

While Hispanics are among the country’s fastest-growing population, only a small percentage donate blood. Amid disconcerting myths, cultural discrepancies, and historical discrimination, Hispanic people are constantly being dissuaded from appearing at blood banks.

Approximately 100,000 Americans are affected by Sickle Cell Disease, the most common form of an inherited blood disorder. As September came to a close, and with that, Sickle Cell Awareness Month, it’s crucial to understand how this disease affects the UCLA community and what you can do to help.