This post was updated March 8 at 3:40 p.m. UCLA researchers are studying how wildlife mammals live in urban Los Angeles to improve the relationship between animals and humans. Read more...
Photo: Jessica Lynch Alfaro, an anthropology associate professor, said if an opossum gets hit by a car, sometimes the babies in the pouch survive and may be fostered by people. In Los Angeles, it is a more common practice to take them to the California Wildlife Center. (Courtesy of Jessica Lynch Alfaro)
Campus Queries is a new Q&A series in which Daily Bruin readers send in science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. This week, Daniele Bianchi, assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, answers. Read more...
Two researchers from a UCLA clinical site explained the genetic approach to diagnosing rare diseases to about 50 UCLA students and faculty members Monday. In honor of Rare Disease Day, Stanley Nelson and Christina Palmer, principal investigators of a UCLA clinical site, discussed how UCLA participates in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. Read more...
Photo: Stanley Nelson and Christina Palmer are principal investigators of the UCLA clinical site in the Undiagnosed Disease Network. They discussed their research in rare diseases in honor of rare disease day on Tuesday with the UCLA community. (Angelina Ruiz/Daily Bruin)
Some graduate students teach undergraduate courses outside of their departments because of a shortage in teaching assistants. There has been a teaching assistant shortage in divisions like life sciences and physical sciences because the undergraduate student population has increased faster than the graduate student population over the past few years, said Victoria Sork, dean of the life sciences division. Read more...
Photo: Kelsi Rutledge, an ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student, teaches a lab for Life Sciences 1: “Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity.” The life sciences division has recruited graduate students outside of the department to teach undergraduate students as well. (Angelina Ruiz/Daily Bruin)
University of California representatives are working to include certain transgender surgeries in student health insurance coverage. Attendees at the UC Student Health Insurance Plan meeting Tuesday discussed voting to add breast augmentation surgery for male-to-female transgender students to the UC SHIP plan, said David DiTullio, an Executive Oversight Board graduate representative for the Student Health Advisory Committee. Read more...
Photo: The University of California Student Health Insurance Plan, which has an office in the Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, may soon include top surgeries for male-to-female transgender students in its plan. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
Researchers at UCLA will build a key instrument for NASA’s newest mission – a journey to the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche. Last month, the space agency announced its plan to launch a spacecraft to Psyche, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, in 2023. Read more...
Photo: (Justin Ma/Daily Bruin contributor)
Volunteers throughout California are heeding a call by UCLA researchers to map California’s biodiversity and preserve the state’s environmental history. The project, CALeDNA, aims to assess Californian biodiversity across numerous habitats using soil samples collected by citizen scientists. Read more...
Photo: Volunteers have gathered more than 400 soil samples for CALeDNA, a new program that aims to use DNA sequencing to map the distribution of species across California. (Courtesy of Emily Curd)
