Faculty with the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge have created a system for managing mental health that they seek to scale up and customize with help from a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
The UCLA Quarter in Washington program sends UCLA undergraduates to study at UCDC in the nation’s capital each fall, winter, and spring quarter. The program, which was revamped last year, offers a wider-than-ever variety of internships to appeal to students with interests across disciplines.
Deepening its commitment to serving as a welcoming place for students from all backgrounds, UCLA will enhance the basic needs services it offers by opening an innovative new center, thanks in part to a $1 million gift from two alumni. UCLA provides a host of services — emergency funding, food security programs, financial literacy workshops, short-term loans, housing assistance, access to child care, a temporary safe place to sleep for commuters and more — that benefit about 1 in every 10 students, helping to ensure they thrive in their daily lives and at the university.
Researchers with the UCLA Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge are lending their expertise to help ensure everyone in Los Angeles can benefit from the efforts. UCLA is taking on these topics from all angles including engineering, environmental science, law, labor studies, public health and public policy.
Funding from the National Institutes of Health will support the design, manufacturing and distribution of two types of new two-photon miniscopes that will allow scientists to peer much deeper into the brain than before and observe neuronal activity at higher resolutions.
UCLA will be part of a multi-institutional research center funded by the National Science Foundation. The Institute for Emerging CORE Methods in Data Science, or EnCORE, will be a collaboration that also includes scientists at UCSD, University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas at Austin.
In 2018, L.A. County voters approved Measure W, a tax that raises about $280 million annually to capture, clean and reuse water runoff. Measure W and the program it created, the Safe Clean Water Program, funds projects to clean and strengthen the local water supply and build community resilience. The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and Stantec are helping to ensure that these investments benefit all Angelenos, especially residents of disadvantaged communities.
In 2019, University of California leaders announced a slate of ambitious goals to help more Californians earn a UC degree over the coming decade. Today, the University is making steady progress on degree attainment goals in its 2030 Plan. UC and California lawmakers are also aligned in efforts to advance educational equity by expanding student preparation programs and investments aimed at closing achievement gaps.
The UC Board of Regents has asked for the system’s central office to review UCLA’s decision to move its athletic programs from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten. The report will assess the impact UCLA’s move will have on the system’s culture, operations and finances and an analysis on how the move will impact UCLA’s student-athletes.
The University of California Office of the President will present its findings and any associated recommendations to the Regents and the Office of the Governor by August 17, 2022.
The Dumont–UCLA Transplant Center has received two grants totaling $11.5 million from the federal government for research aimed at making donated organs last longer and helping transplant recipients live longer, healthier lives.
