This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:39 p.m. The suspension of about 800 of UCLA’s research grants halted projects across campus – including some in its highly-ranked applied mathematics program. Read more...
Photo: The Math Sciences Building, which houses the Department of Mathematics, is pictured. The suspension of about 800 of UCLA’s research grants halted projects across campus, including some in its highly-ranked applied mathematics program. (Mia Tavares/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Sept. 4 at 8:14 p.m. For students at Bruin Student Teaching and Research Scholars Academy, learning in the lab is more than a research opportunity. Read more...
Photo: Kupiec-Weglinski, Dery and Bruin STARS Academy graduates at their graduation in June for completion of their time in lab and the academy. (Courtesy of Ken Dery)
This post was updated September 7 at 8:14 p.m. UCLA plans to consolidate campus human resources, finance, communications, marketing, event planning and academic personnel services to cut costs, according to internal documents acquired by the Daily Bruin. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s “One IT” website is pictured. Two vice chancellors announced that the university will “streamline” services distributed across multiple campus units in line with Goal 5 of its Strategic Plan. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:33 p.m. Federal funding cuts and tight budgets will lead to fewer opportunities for undergraduates looking to do research in UCLA labs. Read more...
Photo: Scientific research posters are pictured. Research opportunities for undergraduate students will be severely limited as a direct result of the loss of federal funding. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:05 p.m. Erin Morrow began experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain at 20 years old. Morrow, who is now a doctoral student in psychology at UCLA, said she consulted several doctors as an undergraduate student at Emory University before being diagnosed with a third-degree atrioventricular block – a heart rhythm disorder where the organ’s upper and lower chambers do not properly send signals to each other. Read more...
Photo: Erin Morrow, a doctoral student in psychology at UCLA, holds a newspaper. Morrow said federally funded research saved her life after she was diagnosed with a third-degree atrioventricular block. (Courtesy of Erin Morrow)
Shaylyn Becton believes community college should have no barriers. That’s why she advocated for California Assembly Bill 1035 – a bill that would waive fees for community college students – as a California fellow for IGNITE, a civic engagement organization for women that holds an annual state-level advocacy conference, IGNITE the Capitol California. Read more...
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Dr. Paul Lukac, the inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer at UCLA Health, sat down with Daily Bruin science and health editor Shaun Thomas to discuss how UCLA Health is leveraging AI to improve scheduling and organization and how it is preparing its workforce for an increasingly digital future. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Lukac, the inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer at UCLA Health, is pictured. (Courtesy of Paul Lukac)
