Kristina Louie, a student researcher who died in 2004, gave a small fish species its scientific name – the Eucyclogobius kristinae. Ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Jacobs decided to honor Louie by naming the fish after her because of her dedication to studying it as a graduate student. Read more...
Photo: The small fish species, Eucyclogobius kristinae is being named after Kristina Louie, a student researcher who died in 2004. (Courtesy of UCLA newsroom)
UCLA officials appointed a lawyer as the associate vice chancellor for intellectual property and industry sponsored research and leader of an entrepreneurship advising board Tuesday. Amir Naiberg has been leading the Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research and has been the chief executive officer of Westwood Technology Transfer since Aug. Read more...
Photo: Amir Naiberg was appointed as the UCLA associate vice chancellor for intellectual property and industry sponsored research Tuesday. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
Officials appointed professor and interim dean as permanent dean of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine effective July 1. School officials chose Kelsey Martin after a national search, said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh in an email announcement. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Kelsey Martin, who previously served as interim dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, was appointed permanent dean Friday. (UCLA Media Relations)
For one day each year, kids with craniofacial anomalies spend time with each other and their families at UCLA’s Sunset Canyon Recreation Center lawn. At the annual UCLA Pediatric Craniofacial Program picnic, held Aug. Read more...
Photo: Children played at the UCLA Sunset Canyon Recreation Center during a picnic hosted by the UCLA Pediatric Craniofacial Program clinic, which helps treat cleft lips and palates. (Courtesy of Justine Lee)
A UCLA professor paid about $10,000 in attorney’s fees in a lawsuit upholding the right of activists to protest her animal testing research on public property. Read more...
Photo: Animal rights activists protested against UCLA professor Edythe London’s addiction research with monkeys. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $1.75 million on July 15 to two siblings who alleged UCLA doctors committed medical malpractice that resulted in the death of their mother. Read more...
Photo: Deborah Larkin underwent a hiatal hernia repair surgery at Ronald Reagan Medical Center in November 2013.(Daily Bruin file photo)
