President Barack Obama announced Monday that UCLA will house a new manufacturing research center to increase manufacturing efficiency in the U.S. The UCLA center will be part of a national network of manufacturing institutes under the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, with locations in Texas, New York, Washington and North Carolina, according to a White House press release. Read more...
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June 20, 7:57 pm
UCLA to head research center in national manufacturing network
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June 5, 2:07 pm
General education reformer, director of cluster program to retire
One of Scott Hugo’s favorite memories at UCLA was taking a cluster course with Gregory Kendrick, during which he wrote a final paper on Anakin Skywalker from the “Star Wars” films. Read more...
Photo: Gregory Kendrick, chair of the freshman cluster program, will be retiring at the end of this year. (Anthony Tran/Daily Bruin)
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June 2, 2:34 am
Antibody supplier for UCLA to stop selling under USDA agreement
A major antibody supplier for UCLA agreed to stop selling products under an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture. USDA fined Santa Cruz Biotechnology $3.5 million and revoked the company’s license to produce antibodies in the settlement agreement it released. Read more...
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June 2, 2:33 am
Child nutrition researcher, Professor Emeritus Osman Galal dies at 85
Osman Galal, a professor emeritus in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, died of heart failure May 23 while traveling on an airplane to Los Angeles from Cairo. Read more...
Photo: Osman Galal, a professor emeritus in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, died of heart failure May 23. (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health)
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May 31, 12:37 am
Student group pushes for divestment from fossil fuels within UC
A UCLA student group visited a University of California regent’s office Friday to deliver thank-you letters for his support for divestment from fossil fuel companies. About 15 students and alumni from Fossil Free UCLA, UC Berkeley and State University of New York campuses delivered letters to the office of Regent Richard Sherman, the next chair of the committee on investments for the UC Regents. Read more...
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May 31, 12:36 am
UCLA medical centers prepare for End of Life Option Act
UCLA medical centers are training physicians and developing patient advocacy groups to prepare for an aid-in-dying law, which will go into effect June 9. The End of Life Option Act will permit doctors in California to prescribe self-administered, life-ending medication to patients who are terminally diagnosed to live for six months or fewer. Read more...
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May 25, 12:42 am
UCLA research group wins $18,000 grant to install water capture system
Five students received an $18,000 grant in early May to install a storm water capture system on the UCLA campus. Students on UCLA’s Sustainability Action Research’s Resilience Team plan to build a 200,000-gallon capture system that could save 1.22 million gallons of water per year, said Austin Park, a team leader and third-year civil and environmental engineering student. Read more...
Photo: The Green Initiative Fund awarded a grant to UCLA students to build a campus rainwater capture system. The system could save more than one million gallons of water per year.(Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)