On the final evening before James Milliken succeeded UC President Michael Drake as leader of the University, Chancellor Julio Frenk announced the federal government’s suspension of research funding to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: James Milliken is pictured. Milliken assumed office as UC President the night after federal funding suspensions to UCLA were announced. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of Education)
In one year, Irene Ontiveros completed clinical rotations, turned in her final graduate school assignments and welcomed her daughter into the world. With her graduation from the Joe C. Read more...
Photo: Ontiveros pictured with her peers and mentors during her graduation at the Joe C. Wen School of Nursing. She cited this network as some of her “biggest cheerleaders” throughout this time. (Courtesy of Kristi Westphaln)
A group of UCLA researchers is using an air quality monitoring system across the Westside of Los Angeles to better understand contamination following the Palisades fire. Read more...
Photo: The sky above Los Angeles is pictured. A UCLA team is using air quality monitors to inform LA residents about pollution after the Palisades fire. (Michael Gallagher/Assistant Photo editor)
Eight months after the Palisades fire burned parts of Topanga State Park and Will Rogers State Historic Park, both areas are reaching new stages of recovery. Read more...
Photo: (Mabel Neyyan/Daily Bruin)
When one student said they found a “nuclear bomb” in their Epicuria pizza, “Charles” was there to answer from the dining hall’s television screen. “Welcome to Housing-Dining,” he wrote from the screen. Read more...
Photo: Charles Wilcots, the associate director of UCLA Housing, poses at Epicuria at Covel. Wilcots has focused on personalizing the Dine & Dish program for the past 10 years. (Photo by Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff. Photo illustration by Desiree Gonzalez/Daily Bruin staff)
Shelley Weng returned to her eight-person Palo Verde apartment to find piles of unwashed dishes, sauce-splattered counters and bugs flying in the kitchen on several occasions last year. Read more...
Photo: (Yuri Mansukhani/Daily Bruin staff)
September is prostate cancer awareness month. Dr. Leonard Marks, a urologic oncologist and professor in the Department of Urology at UCLA, sat down with Daily Bruin science and health contributor Nick Mouchawar to discuss screening for prostate cancer, risk factors and management of the disease. Read more...
Photo: (Helen Sanders/Daily Bruin staff)
