Students can now print on the go at 10 new printer kiosks around campus. The printers, which have been on campus since June 15, allow students to send documents to a cloud from their own phones or computers. They can retrieve them by swiping their BruinCards at the kiosks. The kiosk screens will display all […]
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UCLA renovating classrooms over summer to address enrollment increase
UCLA will spend more than $3 million on renovating 11 classrooms this summer to accommodate an increase in enrollment for the 2016-2017 academic year. The university will renovate four large lecture halls: Moore Hall 100 and the three Court of Sciences classrooms, UCLA spokesperson Rebecca Kendall said in an email statement. It will also work […]
UCLA institute awarded grant for biomedical research
A UCLA institute received a $69.6 million award Tuesday for its work in biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health awarded the five-year grant to the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, or CTSI, a UCLA partnership with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research […]
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announces new chair
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announced a new chair and professor of epidemiology Tuesday. Karin Michels, who received her doctorate in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and in biostatistics at Cambridge University, will join the faculty June 30. She will replace the interim chair and professor of epidemiology and medicine, […]
Students feel the heat of wildfires in Southern California
Sonia Puri’s family packed valuables in their car Tuesday night as fires scorched the hills near their home, so they would be able to flee at a moment’s notice. Puri, a rising fourth-year biology student, said she and her family live one block away from a mandatory evacuation zone but decided to stay put. […]
Shorter life sciences core series to debut in fall with video lectures
A new life sciences series will begin replacing the current Life Sciences Core Curriculum with video-based lectures in fall 2016. The new series will shorten the existing course sequence by one quarter. The Department of Life Sciences Core Education designed the Life Sciences 7 series to increase student retention and reduce the time needed to […]
Couple loans unexpected find to UCLA Meteorite Gallery
It took Ken and Jill Eltrich three years to realize the 5-pound rock they were using as a doorstop was a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. After almost another year of reading up on the meteorite, the couple decided they wanted to share the stone with others and loaned it to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. The meteorite will […]