As multiple wildfires burned in Los Angeles County, Kyle Jeong came back to his dorm to find his roommate switching between computer tabs. As he left UCLA to return home, Jeong had an idea – a single website for the Bruin community to stay updated. Read more...
Photo: A computer displaying the Westwood Wildfire Watch site is pictured. Kyle Jeong, a third-year mathematics of computation student, spearheaded the development of the site. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Feb. 6 at 4:54 p.m. Felicia Marie Knaul, a health economist and the wife of Chancellor Julio Frenk, shed light on stark global disparities in pain treatment to researchers and medical students Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Felicia Knaul presents about public health disparities at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. (Courtesy of Samuel Martinez Jaurequi)
California had over 7,000 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022. Nearly 87% of them were linked to fentanyl. Overdose deaths among young people have been rising for years, said Joseph Friedman, a resident physician and substance abuse researcher at UC San Diego. Read more...
Photo: An emergency entrance to a hospital is pictured. Overdose deaths among young people have been rising for years, specifically those related to fentanyl. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Feb. 13 at 8:08 p.m. A former Canadian cabinet minister told climate activists to keep fighting despite a currently unfavorable political background at a Jan. Read more...
Photo: Former Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna and former Chair of the California Air Resources Board Mary D. Nichols discuss climate change policy at a UCLA School of Law panel Jan. 22. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 31 at 12:28 a.m. Dr. Stephanie Smooke Praw, the interim clinical chief of UCLA Health’s Division of Endocrinology, sat down with the Daily Bruin to dispel thyroid disease misconceptions, discuss risk factors and talk through treatment options during Thyroid Awareness Month in January. Read more...
Photo: (Valerie Liman/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 30 at 9:46 p.m. Problem solving was in full swing during the Association for Computing Machinery at UCLA’s inclusivity-focused coding event Jan. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Association of Computed Machinery at UCLA and other students are pictured at an event. Members of the ACM chapter at UCLA organized the “Break the Binary” event and solved challenges, including ones that were Spider-Man-themed. (Courtesy of Jafarri Nocentelli)
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 10:58 p.m. When Dr. Irene Chen wraps up her day teaching courses and leading research, her work isn’t finished – she then heads back to the Hill, where she is an Olympic Hall faculty in residence. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Irene Chen, pictured, serves as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a faculty in residence for Olympic Hall. (Isabella Appell/Daily Bruin)
