An assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was selected for the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Read more...
Photo: Liz Izhikevich, a UCLA professor who was selected for the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, is pictured. (Nicolas Greamo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
An event spanning more than 50 art exhibitions across Southern California – and featured on UCLA’s campus – explored the connection between art and science to confront pressing global issues. Read more...
Photo: Many of the art exhibits were featured in the Fowler Museum, which is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Whether it be to find a cooking recipe or help with schoolwork, most people use AI as a tool in their daily endeavors. But for UCLA alumni Sid Pandiya and Yen Tan, the technology instead provided an opportunity to create a remote working tool. Read more...
Photo: Some members of the Kona team are pictured. (Courtesy of Sid Pandiya)
This post was updated March 9 at 9:16 p.m. The National Academy of Sciences will award a UCLA professor of neurobiology in April for deepening understanding of the brain. Read more...
Photo: Anne Churchland is pictured with Joao Couto (left) and Anup Khanal (middle) using a lab device. Churchland will receive the annual 2025 Pradel Research Award this April. (Selin Filiz/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 10:58 p.m. When Dr. Irene Chen wraps up her day teaching courses and leading research, her work isn’t finished – she then heads back to the Hill, where she is an Olympic Hall faculty in residence. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Irene Chen, pictured, serves as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a faculty in residence for Olympic Hall. (Isabella Appell/Daily Bruin)
Former UCLA basketball player Russell Stong IV is tallying new assists off the court through a scholarship for low-income engineering students. The mechanical engineering graduate student announced in March the creation of the Russell Stong IV Engineering Scholarship, which will be used to support low-income students in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Read more...
Photo: Russell Stong IV is pictured next to the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Building. (Zoraiz Irshad/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA did not renew a contract for a teaching assistant, who now has to find another way to pay for his cancer treatments and tuition. Hughlin Boyd, a graduate student in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, received an email from UCLA the day before the start of the fall quarter, informing him that he was ineligible to work as a teaching assistant for the quarter. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA graduate student now has to find other ways to afford his tuition and health care after UCLA canceled his teaching assistant contract. (Esther Li/Daily Bruin staff)
