This fall, students will be able to begin fulfilling the diversity requirement and enroll in courses that aim to integrate social issues with science- and math-oriented classes, which faculty hope will spark an interest in science courses in the context of diversity. The initiative, which passed after 25 years of discussion, will require each incoming […]
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UCLA ranked second best public university, 23rd overall in the nation
UCLA was tied for the 23rd best college and ranked as the second best public university for the second year in a row in a ranking by the U.S. News & World Report released on Tuesday. USC and Carnegie Mellon University were tied at No. 23 with UCLA. Last year, UCLA was placed two slots […]
Group of scientists including UCLA graduates, faculty discover planet
Scientists observed the skies through a telescope in the mountains of Chile, spotting what they thought was a trivial dot near a bright star. They circled the image around speculatively, analyzing it carefully, attempting to eliminate any possibility for mistakes. But what began as a grain of hope was very quickly confirmed to be a […]
UCLA Health faces lawsuit for privacy breach in recent cyber attack
A Los Angeles man filed a class action lawsuit against UCLA Health, alleging the health care provider did not adequately store private medical information of about 4.5 million patients during the recent cyber attack, a law firm announced Tuesday. Miguel Ortiz filed the complaint against UCLA Health, UCLA Medical Sciences and University of California Board […]
UCLA research center receives $7.4M for gene therapy clinical trials
Officials from a California medical institute unanimously voted Thursday to award $7.4 million to a UCLA center to fund therapy clinical trials for a cure to X-linked chronic granulomatous disease. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine voted unanimously for the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research to receive […]
UCLA researchers discover experimental therapy to treat colon cancer
UCLA scientists discovered an experimental form of therapy with the ability to suppress the development of colon cancer, officials announced Friday. Scientists from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center discovered that patients with ulcerative colitis, who have a higher chance of developing a colon cancer, have high levels of microRNA-214. The researchers are hopeful that a […]
UCLA hospital to test new cleaning system after superbug outbreak
Doctors at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center will be the first to test a new cleaning system for a medical device in the wake of a superbug outbreak late 2014, officials announced on Monday. Due to insufficiently cleaned duodenoscopes, a strain of bacteria, or superbug, resulted in the death of two patients and infected […]