UCLA will spend more than $3 million on renovating 11 classrooms this summer to accommodate an increase in enrollment for the 2016-2017 academic year. The university will renovate four large lecture halls: Moore Hall 100 and the three Court of Sciences classrooms, UCLA spokesperson Rebecca Kendall said in an email statement. Read more...
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June 28, 7:45 pm
UCLA institute awarded grant for biomedical research
A UCLA institute received a $69.6 million award Tuesday for its work in biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health awarded the five-year grant to the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, or CTSI, a UCLA partnership with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles R. Read more...
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June 28, 7:07 pm
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announces new chair
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announced a new chair and professor of epidemiology Tuesday. Karin Michels, who received her doctorate in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and in biostatistics at Cambridge University, will join the faculty June 30. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Karin Michels)
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June 27, 1:00 pm
Students feel the heat of wildfires in Southern California
Sonia Puri’s family packed valuables in their car Tuesday night as fires scorched the hills near their home, so they would be able to flee at a moment’s notice. Read more...
Photo: A firefighting helicopter drops flame retardant on a 5,200 acre fire burning above the cities of Duarte and Azusa. (Courtesy of Oscar Cortez)
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June 27, 12:00 pm
Shorter life sciences core series to debut in fall with video lectures
A new life sciences series will begin replacing the current Life Sciences Core Curriculum with video-based lectures in fall 2016. The new series will shorten the existing course sequence by one quarter. Read more...
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June 27, 12:00 am
Couple loans unexpected find to UCLA Meteorite Gallery
It took Ken and Jill Eltrich three years to realize the 5-pound rock they were using as a doorstop was a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. After almost another year of reading up on the meteorite, the couple decided they wanted to share the stone with others and loaned it to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. Read more...
Photo: The petal-shaped depressions on Ken and Jill Eltrich’s meteorite make it stand out among other oriented meteorites. (Emaan Baqai/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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June 21, 5:30 pm
Former UCLA scholar donates $11M for theoretical physics institute
A philanthropist and former UCLA postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics donated $11 million Tuesday to the physics and astronomy department, according to a UCLA press release. Read more...