Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q. Are there any species benefiting from rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean? A. Researchers say yes: A coastal species of single-celled plankton, known as coccolithophores, is doing fine even as carbon […]
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Alumnus startup whips up protein-packed pancake mix
Marcel Salapa was tired of eating egg whites to get the protein he needed to maintain muscle mass for bodybuilding. This is why Salapa, who graduated from UCLA in 2018, decided to make his own protein pancake mix during his time in college. Salapa created his company, Phoros Nutrition, so that people could still eat […]
Ethnomusicology department adds an interdisciplinary global jazz studies major
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will offer a new major called global jazz studies to undergraduate students in fall. Global jazz studies will be one of four majors in the school of music’s undergraduate program. Although a jazz studies concentration founded in 1996 by jazz icon Kenny Burrell already exists, the new major […]
UCLA Faculty Center overturns $300,000 deficit to post first profit in a decade
This post was updated Aug. 23 at 8:30 a.m. The UCLA Faculty Center overturned a $300,000 deficit this fiscal year, marking the facility’s first profitable year in a decade, according to the Faculty Center administration. Established in 1959, the UCLA Faculty Center serves as a meeting place for UCLA researchers, faculty and staff, offering dining […]
UCLA receives $9.3M grant to be used to provide free prostate cancer treatment
UCLA doctors received $9.3 million to help reduce the cost of prostate cancer treatment across California. The state of California awarded the grant to doctors in the UCLA urology department last week. The money will be used over the next three years to fund the Improving Access, Counseling and Treatment for Californians program, an organization […]
Associate professor builds connections between ant nests, human architecture
The secret to creating a building that will foster productive social interaction may lie in the nests of ants. Noa Pinter-Wollman, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, outlined a new field that integrates architecture and evolutionary biology in a special edition of a prestigious scientific journal published by the Royal Society […]
UCLA School of Law adds specialization in environmental law
Students at the UCLA School of Law can now earn a specialization in environmental law. Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said that the specialization was a long-term project fueled by both student interest and administrative planning. “We have a lot of students come here to study […]