Bold Beauty at UCLA is bringing its vision of the connection between art and disability to campus. The club is a chapter of the Bold Beauty Project – a national organization that pairs women with disabilities and photographers to create “photo-stories” of each model, according to its website. Read more...
Photo: Bold Beauty at UCLA board members are pictured at a shoot with videographers, photographers and a model for one of the photo shoots. (Courtesy of Gracie McEwen)
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)
This post was updated at 11:23 p.m. Amy Mainzer didn’t plan on studying asteroids when she graduated from her doctoral program in 2003. But now, Mainzer – who received her doctorate of astronomy from UCLA – is building a telescope that will be sent to space to detect asteroids before they hit Earth’s surface. Read more...
Photo: Amy Mainzer stands in the UCLA Meteorite Museum. Mainzer will testify before Congress on Thursday on NASA’s planetary defense strategy. (Selin Filiz/Daily Bruin staff)
Experts discussed patterns in the history of fire in the context of the January Los Angeles County fires at the Fowler Museum on April 30. The panel, titled, “Why History Matters: L.A. Read more...
Photo: A panelist at the “Why History Matters: L.A. Wildfires Past, Present, and Future” event speaks at a lectern. The event, held at the Fowler Museum, challenged historical narratives of fires. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
Alumni from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs discussed how they built their careers in environmentalism across public and private sectors during the “Young Alumni Building Green Futures” panel May 1. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumni speak on a panel at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. (Karla Cardenas-Felipe/Daily Bruin staff)
Over 200 researchers and students attended a two-day symposium to discuss new advancements in single-cell analysis and spatial biology at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA on April 16 and 17. Read more...
Photo: Attendees look around the posters at the event. (Ruby Galbraith/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA dermatologist called for urgent reforms to the Los Angeles health care system at a presentation April 23. Dr. Reza Babapour, a dermatologist and clinical faculty member at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, spoke at the event, which was co-hosted by pre-health student organizations, including Community Medicine in LA, Iranian Medical Society, LA Health Volunteers and Bruins Public Health. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Reza Babapour, a dermatologist and clinical faculty member at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, is pictured. (Courtesy of Chris Laszlo)
