This post was updated March 9 at 9:44 p.m. A UCLA-led comparative study, using data from hospitals, concluded that the surgical program a doctor chooses produces no significant differences in career surgical outcomes performed by allopathic and osteopathic surgeons. Read more...
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March 5, 11:30 pm
Bill AB 1825 declares bans on books of diverse perspectives illegal in California
A California law making book bans illegal went into effect Jan. 1. The bill, authored by Al Muratsuchi who represents California’s 66th Assembly District, requires state-funded public libraries to create a publicly accessible policy that outlines the selection and removal of books, as well as a process for patrons to contest the library material. Read more...
Photo: A book being pulled out of the library stacks is pictured. A new California law seeks to prevent the implementation of book bans. (Max Zhang/Daily Bruin)
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March 3, 9:23 pm
SPROUT at UCLA nurtures K-5 students’ budding interests in STEM through field days
A new UCLA club is teaching Los Angeles’ elementary school children to love science. SPROUT at UCLA, which formed in January, aims to bring one free STEM field day to schools in the LA Unified School District for kindergarten to fifth-grade students. Read more...
Photo: SPROUT at UCLA members are pictured after one of their club meetings. (Courtesy of SPROUT at UCLA)
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March 2, 8:24 pm
UCLA professors strive to make course materials accessible, introduce AI textbooks
This post was updated March 2 at 11:23 p.m. A UCLA comparative literature course is expanding access to educational materials with a textbook generated using artificial intelligence. Read more...
Photo: Kaplan Hall, the site of many comparative literature courses, is pictured. A UCLA comparative literature course is expanding access to educational materials with a textbook generated using artificial intelligence. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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February 26, 1:36 am
UAW Local 4811 leaders meet to fight National Institutes of Health funding cuts
Members of the United Auto Workers Local 4811 joined students across the UC on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s cuts in National Institutes of Health funding. Read more...
Photo: Sydney Campbell presents during a union-wide meeting focused on implementing strategies to fight the NIH funding cuts. (Courtesy of UAW Local 4811 Communications)
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February 19, 11:28 pm
Distinguished professor emeritus, renowned urban planner Donald Shoup dies at 86
Donald Shoup, a distinguished professor emeritus whose parking reform ideas inspired generations of students and urban planners, died Feb. 6. He was 86. Shoup, who taught in the urban planning department at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, researched the hidden costs of free parking in cities and spent his career advocating to remove mandatory off-street parking requirements. Read more...
Photo: Donald Shoup stands at a microphone. The renowned urban planning professor of 41 years and scholar on parking died Feb. 6. He was 86 years old. (Courtesy of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs)
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February 13, 12:25 am
Federal judge stops plan to reduce NIH grants that could limit UC research funding
This post was updated Feb. 14 at 12:11 a.m. A federal judge halted a plan to cut National Institutes of Health grants in 22 states Monday, blocking a policy that would limit research funding across the UC. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is pictured. A federal judge halted a plan to cut National Institutes of Health grants in 22 states Monday, blocking a policy that would limit research funding across the UC. (Zimo Li/Photo editor)