Native and drought resistant plants around campus are coming into bloom this spring with the support of UCLA students and staff. With spring in full swing and the weather recently reaching over 80 degrees, students have begun to frequent outdoor spaces on campus surrounded by plants and flowers. Read more...
Photo: Flowers blooming by Janss steps are pictured. (Grace Wilson/Daily Bruin)
UCLA pre-health clubs are reopening shadowing opportunities for students. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-health students have had to navigate the challenge of gaining clinical experience with changing protocols surrounding COVID-19. Read more...
Photo: The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is pictured. Pre-health clubs such as AMSA and PULSE had to transition to virtual shadowing opportunities during the onset of the pandemic. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A group of around 20 UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professors, graduate student teaching assistants and undergraduate students spent more than three weeks conducting research in the Peruvian Amazon basin. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students, teaching assistants and professors pose for a group photo in the Peruvian Amazon basin. The group spent more than three weeks studying wildlife at the Cocha Cashu Biological Station. (Courtesy of Greg Grether)
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: What is Candida auris, and how does it infect people? Read more...
A recent UCLA-led study revealed drought’s disproportionate impacts on urban vegetation in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in the coastal greater Los Angeles area. According to the study, lower-income neighborhoods, many of which have disproportionately large Black and Hispanic populations, have lost more greenness than affluent neighborhoods during dry periods. Read more...
Photo: A car drives by vegetation. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA’s chapter of Planned Parenthood is partnering with the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center to provide a week of free sexually transmitted infections testing for students. Read more...
Photo: The Ashe Patient Portal is pictured. UCLA’s Planned Parenthood chapter partnered with the Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center to offer a week of free sexually transmitted disease testing for students. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated April 4 at 10:58 p.m. UCLA researchers have developed the first wearable device to record the activity of individual neurons in a person’s brain while they move freely. Read more...
Photo: The Neuro-stack sits in a person’s hand. UCLA researchers have created a device that can record single-neuron activity during movement for research purposes. (Courtesy of Dejan Markovic)
