UCLA Samueli School of Engineering students and faculty welcomed hundreds of admitted first-year students to campus Saturday.
More than 20 representatives from engineering departments and clubs shared their experiences with admitted students at a “Discover UCLA Engineering” event in the Court of Sciences.

The math department’s new grading policy is meant to make grading more equitable across different lectures of the same courses.
But some students say it closely resembles a quota system – which the department bans.

The United States officially withdrew from the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, marking the end of its 78-year membership.
The United Nations agency – established in 1948 – encourages international collaboration to achieve the “highest attainable standard of health,” according to the WHO constitution.

When Dr. Deborah Lehman did her medical training about 40 years ago, cases of bacterial meningitis were common, often sending patients to the hospital, leaving them neurologically impaired and, in severe cases, killing them.

This post was updated Nov. 16 at 9:57 p.m.
Fred Ramsdell, one of the recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, sat down with science and health contributor Leilani Krantz to discuss his journey with scientific exploration and the importance of foundational research.

Social media provides widespread access to nutritional information from varying sources – not all of which is explicitly backed by data.
With social media platforms allowing content to reach broad audiences, nutrition advice of all kinds drifts through explore pages and algorithms.

This post was updated Oct. 12 at 9:22 p.m.
UCLA experts and medical professionals warned that unproven claims made by the White House linking the use of Tylenol during pregnancy to the development of autism promotes misinformation.

This post was updated Oct. 1 at 1:41 a.m.
Around 40 nurses and community members rallied in front of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Tuesday morning to demand that the UC agree to a new contract with safer staffing and working conditions.

This post was updated Sept. 7 at 8:39 p.m.
The suspension of about 800 of UCLA’s research grants halted projects across campus – including some in its highly-ranked applied mathematics program.

This post was July 13 at 8:43 p.m.
UCLA clinicians and policy experts said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of a vaccine advisory committee could create health care disparities and undermine public trust in vaccine recommendations.