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 Sept. 7 at 8:22 p.m. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: The California State Capitol is pictured. UC faculty are proposing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar fund to support UC researchers in the wake of the federal funding suspension to UCLA. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved a letter in support of heavy rail alternatives for the proposed Sepulveda Transit Corridor project in its Aug. 19 meeting. Read more...
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)
Andrew Lewis and Elizabeth Brady, two UCLA alumni, were reelected to the North Westwood Neighborhood Council in March and began their two-year terms in July. Lewis is the council’s vice president and chairs the community health, homelessness and safety committee. Read more...
Photo: Andrew Lewis (left) and Elizabeth Brady (right), two members of the North Westwood Neighborhood Council, are pictured. The two UCLA alumni spoke to the Daily Bruin about their goals for the council in the upcoming year. (Left to right: courtesy of Andrew Lewis and courtesy of Elizabeth Brady)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:55 p.m. A district court judge said Tuesday she will hear arguments over whether UCLA’s suspended National Institutes of Health grants should be restored. The federal government suspended around 800 grants to UCLA from the NIH, National Science Foundation and U.S. Read more...
Photo: People stroll on Bruin Walk. A district court judge said Tuesday that she will hear arguments over whether UCLA’s suspended National Institutes of Health grants should be restored. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Jewel Thais-Williams, a UCLA alumnus, the founder of LGBTQ+ nightclub Jewel’s Catch One and an HIV/AIDS activist, died July 7. She was 86. Thais-Williams opened Catch One on West Pico Boulevard in 1973 to serve as “a sacred space” for underserved communities of color, said Donald Kilhefner, who was a close friend of Thais-Williams for more than 40 years. Read more...
Photo: Jewel Thais-Williams, a UCLA alumnus and HIV/AIDS activist, is pictured. Thais-Williams died at 86 after creating safe spaces as the founder of LGBTQ+ nightclub Jewel’s Catch One. (Courtesy of APLA Health)
