UCLA hosted a grand opening of the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center on Friday, which Chancellor Gene Block called a test drive for future academic gatherings. Read more...
Photo: UCLA professors displayed their research at the grand opening of the Luskin Conference Center on Friday, including octopus caps that translate brain waves into lights and sounds. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)
Undergraduate student government leaders are working to introduce an app that would allow students to request a ride home in the evening. USAC facilities commissioner Sandra Rhee proposed that Community Service Officer administrators restructure the service to allow students to order the vans through an app. Read more...
University of California physicians and researchers will have access to one of the largest medical databases of patient records in the country, under an agreement signed last Thursday with insurance company UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Read more...
Photo: The University of California partnered with insurance company UnitedHealth Group, Inc. last week to better control healthcare and cooperation. (Daily Bruin file photo)
James Stoddart, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry, the Nobel Prize Committee announced Wednesday Stoddart, who is currently a chemistry professor at Northwestern University received the prize in conjunction with Jean-Pierre Sauvage, a professor at the University of Strasbourg, France and Bernard L. Read more...
Photo: James Stoddart, a professor emeritus of chemistry, will receive the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for building molecular machines. (Courtesy of UCLA)
Student advisers to the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion met with Vice Chancellor Jerry Kang and other administrators last Thursday. The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion created the advisory board in January to have students play a role in helping address campus climate issues. Read more...
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UCLA researchers will participate in a new science and technology center funded by the National Science Foundation. John Miao, professor of physics and astronomy, and his team of researchers, will work in the new Science and Technology Center on Real-Time Functional Imaging, or STC. Read more...
Photo: John Miao, a professor of physics and astronomy, and his research team will take part in a new imaging center funded by the National Science Foundation. (Courtesy of Shaomei Yu)
Two UCLA alumni donated $5 million to a Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science endowment Wednesday. Ronald and Valerie Sugar established the endowment to support the school and Dean Jayathi Murthy’s goals. Read more...
Photo: Ronald and Valerie Sugar, two UCLA engineering alumni, donated $5 million to the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science on Wednesday, after a previous $1 million endowment. (Courtesy of UCLA)
