Students can now apply to a new nine-month-long social science’s master’s degree program. The first Master of Social Sciences Program, or MaSS, will begin fall 2017 and end in June 2018, according to an email announcement sent by UCLA Social Sciences interim dean Laura Gómez. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA social sciences department started a new multidisciplinary research program for students to enable them to get a social sciences master’s degree. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA engineering researchers developed a low-cost mobile imaging system that detects and quantifies air pollution. The Ozcan Research Group designed C-Air, a particle detector capable of sizing pollutants in a sample of air. Read more...
Photo: Yichen Wu is a doctoral student in electrical engineering and the primary researcher on the C-Air Project, a particle detector that calculates the amount of pollution in air. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA vice provost stepped down Monday after serving for about five years. Kathryn Atchison, vice provost of new collaborative initiatives, plans to return to the faculty and focus on health education, according to an announcement from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh last week. Read more...
People have gone homeless in less than 30 seconds from cyberattacks, an FBI agent told students and faculty at an event Wednesday. “Once you wire (the money), the bank cannot get it back,” said Michael Sohn, a supervisory special agent at the FBI. Read more...
Photo: FBI supervisory special agent Michael Sohn spoke to students, faculty and staff at presentations Wednesday about cybersecurity, as part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month. (Raevyn Walker/Daily Bruin contributor)
This post was updated Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. UCLA researchers and students are finding novel ways to battle the stigma of autism and diagnose the disorder. Read more...
Photo: Best Buddies at UCLA is a student organization on campus that aims to end the stigma against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (Courtesy of Shammir Allen Khan)
On the ground floor of UCLA’s Boyer Hall, a huge gray machine shoots invisible X-rays at streams of bacterial crystals, each thinner than the width of a human hair. Read more...
Photo: UCLA scientists are researching a naturally occurring mosquito toxin that may be engineered in the future to kill the mosquito species that transmits dengue fever and the Zika virus. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Therapy dogs dressed in Halloween costumes visited patients at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA on Thursday. This event was organized by the UCLA People-Animal Connection, the hospital’s animal-assisted therapy program. Read more...
Photo: Finn, a white labrador, went around Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to visit young patients and spread some Halloween cheer, as part of UCLA People-Animal Connection, the hospital’s animal-assisted therapy program. (Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin)
