Cardiologists and students from UCLA convened at Valencia High School to provide free heart screenings Feb. 1. The Saving Hearts Foundation at UCLA was founded in 2014 after three UCLA students lost a family friend to a sudden cardiac arrest event. Read more...
Photo: Cardiologists and students from the UCLA chapter of the Saving Hearts Foundation convened at Valencia High School to provide free heart screenings. (Courtesy of Saving Hearts Foundation at UCLA)
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)
This post was updated Feb. 13 at 11:50 p.m. Students and faculty in some lab classes were evacuated from Young Hall after unidentified odors were reported. Read more...
Photo: Young Hall is pictured. Some students and faculty were evacuated from Young Hall after unidentified odors were reported Wednesday afternoon. (Daily Bruin file photo)
“You can’t spend a day walking around UCLA and not see a squirrel. That’s an impossible day,” said Peter Nonacs, vice chair of the ecology and evolutionary biology department. Read more...
Photo: A collage of squirrels is pictured. The eastern fox squirrel is the most common type of squirrel on UCLA’s campus and can be found foraging, hoarding nuts and attempting to eat students’ food on a daily basis. (Photo illustration by Mia Tavares/Daily Bruin senior staff. Photos by Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff, Lucine Ekizian/Daily Bruin senior staff and Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Locked behind a keypad door on the roof of the Life Sciences Building is UCLA’s apiary – a collection of beehives carefully maintained by the Bruin Beekeepers club. Read more...
Photo: The Bruin Beekeepers club maintains the school’s apiary on the roof of the Life Sciences Building. The collected honey will be delivered to the Community Programs Office food closet. (Courtesy of Zoya Alam)
This post was updated Feb.12 at 1:12 a.m. Speakers at the Paul Torrens Health Forum predicted that the Trump administration’s proposed health care budget cuts could threaten the coverage of millions of Californians and Americans alike. Read more...
Photo: Speakers at the Paul Torrens Health Forum made their predictions on how the Trump administration would impact health care and health insurance. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)
Beep, click, slam. Then-newly hired nurse Kemi Reeves sat alone in her car, processing her first day of work. That day, she saw nurses managing very sick patients – patients who at smaller hospitals would be in intensive care units but were placed into her intermediate care unit at UCLA, she said. Read more...
Photo: Amy Castillo is pictured. The clinical nurse manager has been at UCLA since 2001 and works in the 6 West unit of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which specializes in post-vascular, orthopedic and plastic surgical care. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)
