The Daily Bruin received its seventh Pacemaker Award for being one of the best national college newspapers along with two online awards for the 2019-2020 year from the Associated Collegiate Press on Thursday. Read more...
Photo: The Daily Bruin won Pacemaker Awards on Thursday for best four-year college newspaper, best website and best magazine website. The Bruin also won five awards in individual categories. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A married pair of UCLA professors posthumously left the university nearly $9 million that will go toward scholarships, department chairs and seminars. Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey, two married psychology professors at UCLA who passed away in 2018 and 2015, respectively, donated $8.7 million to UCLA, said Lynn Andrews, the professors’ niece, in an emailed statement. Read more...
Photo: UCLA will use posthumous donations from two professors to offer scholarships to students and financially support department faculty. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
This post was updated Oct. 25 at 7:47 p.m. As the COVID-19 pandemic has upended on-campus life at UCLA, many student workers are left with reduced working hours or without jobs. Read more...
Photo: Student workers on campus have fewer available positions and face shorter working hours because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The development of a successful vaccine for COVID-19 depends on public trust and participation from underserved communities in vaccine trials, a panel of UCLA health professionals said. Read more...
Photo: The success of a COVID-19 vaccine will depend on the trust and participation of underrepresented communities. However, mistrust of research institutes is a barrier between communities and their participation in vaccine trials. (Photo by Noah Danesh)
Student activists are calling to end campus police and to redistribute resources to communities harmed by police violence. No UCPD Coalition, a student-led movement, is advocating for abolishing police departments due to over-policing of people of color, said Andrew Guerrero, the coalition’s co-founder. Read more...
Photo: Campus activists call for the abolishment of the university police department and divestment of its funds. (Naveed Pour/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA received an emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration last week to conduct a fast and cheap COVID-19 test. The new test, called SwabSeq, can return results in 12 to 24 hours, said Sri Kosuri, an associate chemistry and biochemistry professor who helped develop the technology. Read more...
Photo: SwabSeq is a new COVID-19 test developed by UCLA researchers. The test is cheaper, produces results faster and removes many logistical challenges for mass testing. (Courtesy of Octant)
This article was updated Oct. 18 at 6:36 p.m. The UCLA School of Law will likely operate mostly online through spring 2021, a school official said. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Law will most likely continue its fall remote learning system for its spring 2021 semester, according to an email sent by the school’s dean to law students. However, if COVID-19 infection rates drop, the school will try to plan more in-person activities that abide by public health guidelines. (Daily Bruin file photo)
