This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:33 p.m. Federal funding cuts and tight budgets will lead to fewer opportunities for undergraduates looking to do research in UCLA labs. Read more...
Photo: Scientific research posters are pictured. Research opportunities for undergraduate students will be severely limited as a direct result of the loss of federal funding. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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)
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 July 6 at 7:49 p.m. Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences, was two weeks away from printing its final volume of the academic year when student editors learned the journal would lose all of its funding from the university. Read more...
Photo: A website for Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences, is pictured. The journal will enter a new era as a student organization without financial support from the university. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
The Daily Bruin covers breaking news relevant to the UCLA community as it happens. This page includes coverage of the July 2025 trial between plaintiff Gordon Klein, a UCLA accounting lecturer, and defendants Antonio Bernardo, dean of the Anderson School of Management, and the UC Board of Regents. Read more...
Photo: (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Sept. 25 at 4:13 p.m. A UCLA professor of geography was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April. Marilyn Raphael is a leading scientist in Antarctic climate and ocean atmospheric interactions around Antarctica, said Laura Landrum, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Read more...
Photo: Marilyn Raphael was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April. (Anna Dai-Liu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Bioscience and medical technology leaders convened at UCLA from May 19 to May 22, combining two of Los Angeles’s premier innovation conferences. The UCLA Technology Development Group united the UCLA MedTech Conference and LA Bioscience Ecosystem Summit for the inaugural LABEST Week with the hope of fostering collaboration across fields such as medical technology, therapeutics and artificial intelligence, according to a press release. Read more...
Photo: Panelists at LABEST are pictured. The UCLA Technology Development Group united the UCLA MedTech Conference and LA Bioscience Ecosystem Summit for the inaugural LABEST Week with the hope of fostering collaboration across fields such as medical technology, therapeutics and artificial intelligence, according to a press release. (Courtesy of LABEST)
