The UCLA School of Dentistry partnered with a South Korean semiconductor company to bring a saliva-based diagnostic technology into clinics – with the goal of enabling the noninvasive, early detection of diseases such as cancer. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Dentistry will partner with Dongwoon Anatech to annually support EFIRM, an electrochemical platform that detects molecular targets such as cancer mutations in small samples of blood or saliva. (Courtesy of Ben Alkaly)
Students urged the UC to protect its researchers and increase transparency amid federal negotiations to restore UCLA’s frozen research grants. The Trump administration suspended about 800 of UCLA’s research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Energy in late July. Read more...
Photo: Kendy Chen, a fifth-year biochemistry student, works at a lab. Students urged the UC to remain transparent as the federal government seeks a $1 billion settlement from UCLA to restore its research funding. (Courtesy of Arjun Pamidi)
A May Reddit post showing a dumpster bin filled with books, allegedly behind Olympic and Centennial residential halls, sparked outrage and confusion among students. The post to UCLA’s subreddit with the image, entitled “UCLA IS TRASHING THOUSANDS OF BOOKS,” received about 250 “upvotes” and over 60 comments. Read more...
Photo: A May reddit post showing a dumpster filled with books sparked confusion among UCLA students. (Helen Sanders/Daily Bruin staff)
The North Westwood Neighborhood Council appointed two new board members at its monthly meeting Aug. 6. The council, which represents Westwood and UCLA to the Los Angeles City Council, meets on the first Wednesday of every month at UCLA’s Weyburn Terrace. Read more...
This post was updated Aug. 16 at 12:28 a.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved two constitutional bylaw changes, which added appointments to the transfer student and international student representative offices during its July 22 meeting. Read more...
The UCLA School of Nursing will be renamed after Joe C. Wen, following a $30 million donation, the university announced Aug. 5. The donation was the largest-ever gift in the nursing school’s history, which will be UCLA’s first to be named after an Asian American. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Nursing is pictured. (Shiv Patel/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Aug. 24 at 7:41 p.m. A court ruled Thursday that UC Regent Jay Sures must pay $150,624 of graduate student Dylan Kupsh’s legal fees after Sures unsuccessfully attempted to file a restraining order against him. Kupsh – along with around 50 other pro-Palestine protesters – demonstrated outside Sures’ Brentwood home in February, calling him “responsible for protecting UC investments in genocide and weapons manufacturing.” Lawyers representing Sures initially alleged that Kupsh was a “ringleader” among the protesters, but were unable to prove the claim in court. Read more...
Photo: Dylan Kupsh, a UCLA graduate student (left), and another pro-Palestine activist (right) speak to Kupsh’s supporters outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Courthouse. A court ruled Thursday that UC Regent Jay Sures must pay $150,624 of Kupsh’s legal fees after Sures unsuccessfully attempted to file a restraining order against Kupsh following his participation in a pro-Palestine protest outside Sures’ home. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin senior staff)
