Sunday, July 5

Epidemiology adjunct professor helps China develop, implement COVID-19 response

A UCLA professor helped control China’s COVID-19 epidemic when it first emerged, but he worries about rising global COVID-19 cases. Zunyou Wu, an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was among the first scientists to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, when it first surfaced in Wuhan, China, in late December. Read more...

Photo: Zunyou Wu, an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was a key figure in China’s fight against COVID-19 and helped control its spread. (Courtesy of Zunyou Wu)


Napolitano says UCs will likely operate on hybrid basis for fall, decision not yet made

University of California President Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she anticipates that most, if not all, campuses will operate on a hybrid learning basis in the fall. Read more...

Photo: University of California President Janet Napolitano stated that she anticipates most, if not all, UC campuses will operate on a hybrid learning basis in the fall. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)




UCLA, UCSF, CDPH collaborate to train coronavirus contact tracers

UCLA is partnering with the University of California, San Francisco, and the California Department of Public Health to train contact tracers to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...

Photo: UCLA, partnered with UCSF and CADPH, are training contact tracers to combat the spread of COVID-19. Contact tracing is important as it helps stop people who have come in contact with COVID-19, spread the infection further by advising self isolation and testing. The trainees in the program are mostly civil servants who are not able to continue working due to the pandemic. (Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor)


Parent sentenced to pay $250,000 fine after attempt to bribe son’s way into UCLA

This post was updated May 19 at 9:30 a.m. A woman who paid for her son’s admission to UCLA was sentenced for bribery Monday. Xiaoning Sui was fined $250,000 by a U.S. Read more...

Photo: Xiaoning Sui was fined $250,000 for paying for her son’s admission to UCLA. Sui, who was also sentenced to time served, is one of the dozens of individuals implicated in the 2019 college admissions scandal. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Napolitano, other UC chancellors take 10% pay cut in response to budget crisis

University of California President Janet Napolitano and all 10 UC chancellors will take a voluntary 10% pay cut next year in response to the financial difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...

Photo: University of California President Janet Napolitano will take a 10% pay cut next year, along with all 10 UC chancellors, in response to COVID-19 related financial difficulties. Additionally, the UC will freeze salaries for non-unionized staff and non-student academic appointees.