UCLA has received a grant worth up to $2.55 million from the state of California that will help make a college education more affordable for underrepresented students of color, further increasing access to a UCLA-quality degree.
As a partner campus in the CaliforniansForAll College Corps, UCLA will select 150 students for fellowships. These students will each receive $10,000 for an entire school year. They will get $7,000 in living expenses while doing 450 hours of community service and a $3,000 one-time scholarship at the end of their service.
With a theme of “Research in Action,” the fourth annual series resumed on Jan. 19 with five webinars spotlighting UCLA’s role in understanding and solving issues of:
At UCLA, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings live on. A course taught by one of King’s close allies inspires Bruins to carry on the fight for justice.
For the past two decades, Rev. James Lawson Jr. — one of King’s close friends and fellow civil and labor rights leader, who King once referred to as “the leading strategist of nonviolence in the world” — has taught a UCLA course on King’s signature method for social reform.
Chancellor Gene Block tours the COVID-19 testing facilities, as processes automate and capacity expands.
When it became operational in October 2020, the UCLA SwabSeq Lab began testing about 1,000 samples every week for COVID-19. During peak times of the year — such as campus housing move-in week in mid-September or the current omicron surge — the lab processes up to 50,000 samples a week.
With the U.S. reaching the second anniversary of the first U.S. COVID-19 case, UCLA epidemiologist Robert Kim-Farley has been reflecting on what the scientific community got right during the medical crisis, and what it could have done better.
The UCLA Center for SMART Health, an interdisciplinary collaborative that looks to the integrated transformation of healthcare through emergent data and technologies, and Hearst Health, a division of Hearst and leader in care guidance, today announced their partnership to offer the Hearst Health Prize.
Adjunct professor of social welfare Jorja Leap spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the rise in homicides during the pandemic and the way that it has affected neighborhoods like Watts in South Los Angeles.
Mashable: In uncertain times, staying present can help ease anxiety. Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center offers tips to get started.
