Google announced Tuesday that it gave a $1 million gift to the University of California’s Lick Observatory to support the observatory’s research and academic mission. The donation, which will be split into two $500,000 allocations, will add to the observatory’s $1.5 million annual allocation from the UC Office of the President. Read more...
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UCLA scientists at the California NanoSystems Institute have developed a more efficient and cost-effective method to extract and analyze cancer cells from a patient’s blood. The NanoVelcro Chip, which is about the size of a postage stamp, contains wires 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. Read more...
UCLA announced Friday the new dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science who will begin her term next January. Jayathi Murthy, who is currently the chair and a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, will become the new dean effective Jan. Read more...
Photo: Jayathi Murthy was appointed the new dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective next January. (UCLA Newsroom)
Students who have university health insurance may have had their personal information compromised after it was announced Wednesday that hackers breached the computer system of Anthem Inc. Read more...
The spacecraft Dawn is finally reaching the end of its four-year journey toward the dwarf planet Ceres as part of a NASA project led by UCLA researchers. Read more...
Photo: The spacecraft Dawn is finally reaching the end of its four-year journey toward the dwarf planet Ceres as part of a NASA project led by UCLA researchers to investigate the formation of the solar system. (Manvel Kapukchyan/Daily Bruin)
A California stem cell institute recently awarded two UCLA researchers a combined $3.2 million grant to further their work in stem cell-based therapies. Dr. James Dunn and Dr. Read more...
Incoming students may have to take four additional vaccines recommended by the state health department before registering at the University of California in fall 2017, according to a tentative University plan. Read more...
