Textbook affordability advocates worry that the transition to online learning will limit access to course materials for low-income students. Many academic institutions have had to transition to at least partial remote instruction because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Higher education’s transition toward remote instructions could undermine accessibility to course materials and textbook affordability, advocates said.
A UCLA professor received a grant to develop a new treatment that could make COVID-19 vaccines more effective. Song Li, the chair of Samueli School of Engineering’s bioengineering department, received a $149,916 grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to create a vaccine booster that could help the body defend against the coronavirus. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA professor and his team received a state grant of $149,916 for their COVID-19 research. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated May 15 at 11:20 a.m. On top of increased rent for her university-owned apartment and the COVID-19 pandemic, Zuleika Bravo’s partner was laid off from his job, her family of three faced food insecurity and she is months behind on basic expenses. Read more...
Photo: “Sometimes the students with dependents, whether they’re graduate students or undergraduates, get forgotten in the university’s eyes,” said Jenna Donohue, a parenting graduate student who lives in University Village, UCLA’s family housing. (Medha Vallurupalli/Daily Bruin)
UCLA researchers have developed a smart glove that converts American Sign Language into spoken English. The glove uses stretchable sensors and a circuit board to wirelessly send signals to a smartphone app – also developed by the researchers – which translates hand gestures into English. Read more...
This post was updated Aug. 7 at 4:40 p.m. A postdoctoral fellow left UCLA following multiple accusations of sexual harassment on Twitter. Starting in early June, several Twitter users accused Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, of sexual harassment, stating that he sent private messages harassing them, invited underage people for drinks and sent minors unsolicited inappropriate photos. Read more...
Photo: Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a postdoctoral fellow at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, left UCLA following multiple accusations of sexual harassment on Twitter. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated to include a clarified maximum potential sentence Aug. 3 at 8:02 p.m. Five former patients filed 17 additional charges of felony sexual misconduct against former UCLA doctor James Heaps at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday morning. Prior to the new charges, Heaps faced criminal charges from two former patients for two counts of sexual battery and one count of sexual exploitation by a physician. Heaps was a UCLA Health obstetrician-gynecologist from February 2014 to June 2018 and previously worked part-time at the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center. Read more...
Photo: After 17 additional felony sex crime charges were filed Monday morning, UCLA Health doctor James Heaps is now accused of 20 felony counts of sexual misconduct. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA decreased the amount of in-person courses for fall quarter because of an increase in COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles, according to an announcement by the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter. UCLA will now offer about 8% of courses in person or as a hybrid in the fall, which includes some lab, studio and clinical classes, according to the announcement. Read more...
Photo: Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter announced a decrease in in-person courses for fall quarter. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
