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May 19, 2024 1:36 p.m.
Three syringes lie on a table next to a vial. A study led by researchers at UCLA and Carnegie Mellon University examined the efficacy of various behavioral interventions on COVID-19 booster vaccine rates. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Researchers from UCLA and Carnegie Mellon University found that simple reminders were most effective in encouraging people to get their COVID-19 booster shots.
According to the study, published in March, the researchers aimed to assess insights from behavioral science that could transfer to real-world situations.
By Archi Patel
News
May 17, 2024 8:23 p.m.This post was updated May 17 at 9:15 p.m.
For the first time in the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s history, Bruins have elected an international student as president.
By Gabrielle Gillette and Shiv Patel
Campus
May 17, 2024 3:54 p.m.UC-AFT files unfair labor practice charge against UC
The University Council-American Federation of Teachers announced Thursday that it filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University.
UC-AFT – a union representing 6,500 UC librarians and non-tenured faculty members – filed the charge Wednesday, saying the University failed to maintain safe working conditions, disregarded faculty free speech rights and did not consult members of the union when making decisions regarding online instruction after protests at UCLA and UC San Diego.
By Alexandra Crosnoe
A Closer Look
May 16, 2024 10:20 p.m.Ying-Ying Meng remembered as kind researcher who mentored public health scholars
Ying-Ying Meng, the former director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, died April 11. She was 68.
Meng, who began working at the center in 2000, also served as a senior research scientist and the co-director of the CHPR’s Chronic Disease Program.
By Reese Dahlgren
Campus
May 16, 2024 7:57 p.m.UC Regents approve acute care bed expansion at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Health received approval to increase the number of acute care inpatient beds in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Wednesday.
Under the proposal, which was agendized Item F1D, the hospital’s fourth-floor behavioral health units will be converted into general medical and surgical acute care spaces.
By Shaun Thomas
Academics
May 16, 2024 6:55 p.m.UC Board of Regents debates controversial Thirty Meter Telescope at May meeting
This post was updated at 1:43 p.m.
MERCED – The UC Board of Regents Academic and Student Affairs Committee argued about how development of the Thirty Meter Telescope would affect the Indigenous people of Hawaii during a meeting about UC-affiliated astronomy Wednesday.
By Sam Mulick
Higher Education
May 16, 2024 6:48 p.m.Tuition will increase for graduate programs following UC Regents meeting
This post was updated May 18 at 9:52 p.m.
MERCED — The UC Board of Regents Academic and Student Affairs Committee approved a proposal to increase the tuition of graduate programs Wednesday.
By Dylan Winward and Sam Mulick
Campus
May 16, 2024 5:24 p.m.Nakba Day demonstration at UCLA recognizes Palestinian displacement, resistance
Around 200 students and community members gathered at the base of Janss Steps on Wednesday to commemorate 76 years of Palestinian resistance.
Nakba Day – which is May 15, the day after the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence – recognizes the forcible displacement of around 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, according to the Associated Press.
By Catherine Hamilton
Higher Education
May 16, 2024 1:51 p.m.UC Regents unanimously appoints alumnus Janet Reilly as next chair
MERCED – The UC Board of Regents appointed UCLA alumnus Janet Reilly as its next chair at a meeting Thursday.
The board passed the appointment unanimously 12-0, approving a recommendation from its special committee on nominations.
By Dylan Winward and Sam Mulick
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