The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will soon have its first associate dean of diversity and inclusion to help the school improve its representation of minority students. Read more...
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UCLA will now be offering free mental health screenings to all incoming freshmen and transfer students, Chancellor Gene Block announced Thursday. In a speech at the One Mind Initiative at Work summit, a conference on mental health and wellness, Block said that students who choose to participate in the screenings will be examined for various mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety and suicidal tendencies. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block announced the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge, an initiative to change the perception and treatment of mental illness and provide free mental health screenings to incoming freshmen and transfer students. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The University of California’s five cancer research centers will be coordinating their efforts to treat and research the disease. UC President Janet Napolitano and John Stobo, executive vice president of UC Health, announced Monday that cancer research institutions at UCLA, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UC San Francisco have come together to form the UC Cancer Consortium. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center is one of five University of California cancer research centers that have come together to form the UC Cancer Consortium. (Michael Zshornack/Photo editor)
Kevin Njabo left Cameroon 15 years ago to pursue teaching and research in environmental science at UCLA. Njabo, an assistant adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, helped establish UCLA’s partnership with the Congo Basin Institute, in which he serves as the Africa director of the Center for Tropical Research. Read more...
Photo: Kevin Njabo, an assistant adjunt professor in environmental health sciences, helped establish a research institute in Cameroon jointly led by UCLA and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)
A long line of people spiraled around the Court of Sciences to view the solar eclipse through telescopes last Monday. More than a thousand students and community members came to campus to watch the partial solar eclipse at “The Great UCLA Eclipse” event hosted by the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences department. Read more...
Photo: Spectators gathered last week at the Court of Sciences to view the solar eclipse at an event hosted by the department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences department. (Michael Zshornack/Photo editor)
The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was ranked as the seventh best hospital in the nation in an annual Best Hospitals ranking released earlier this month by the U.S. Read more...
Photo: UCLA was ranked the seventh best hospital in the country and placed on the ranking’s Honor Roll. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A total solar eclipse will pass through the United States on Monday. Although Los Angeles is not under its path of totality, or the area where the moon will completely block the sun, the UCLA community will be able to view a partial solar eclipse on campus. Read more...
Photo: Those attending the “The Great UCLA Eclipse” on Monday morning can learn about and view the eclipse through safe viewing glasses and telescopes. (NASA)
