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July 12, 2025 8:11 p.m.
A UCLA lab is pictured. Student researchers at UCLA are grappling with the next steps in their academic and professional journeys as the threat of research funding cuts looms over them. (Libby Li/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated July 13 at 8:32 p.m.
Student researchers at UCLA are grappling with the next steps in their academic and professional journeys as the threat of research funding cuts looms over them.
By Reese Dahlgren
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July 7, 2025 6:14 p.m.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.
By Leilani Krantz
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July 3, 2025 6:32 p.m.UCLA cuts funding, class credit status from undergraduate research journal ‘Aleph’
This post was updated July 6 at 7:49 p.m.
Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences, was two weeks away from printing its final volume of the academic year when student editors learned the journal would lose all of its funding from the university.
By Vivian Stein
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July 2, 2025 6:36 p.m.Marianna Bezhanyan labeled ‘extremist’ by Russian government for her political art
This post was updated July 6 at 8:01 p.m.
Marianna Bezhanyan created art symbolizing Russian identity. The Russian government then labeled her as an “extremist.”
Bezhanyan, a rising fourth-year design media arts student, said she decided to search her name around May on a public database after her friend Nikita Shekhovtsov found himself on a similar list.
By Lucine Ekizian
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June 27, 2025 10:42 p.m.UCLA climatologist Marilyn Raphael elected to National Academy of Sciences
A UCLA professor of geography was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April.
Marilyn Raphael is a leading scientist in Antarctic climate and ocean atmospheric interactions around Antarctica, said Laura Landrum, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
By Danielle H. Cho
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June 25, 2025 9:21 p.m.UCLA DataX panel experts review technological influence on human rights, democracy
Students and faculty discussed how technological developments impact human rights and democracy at the DataX Impact Forum in May.
The event – titled “Beyond Broligarchy: The Fight for a Better Future” – featured an hour-long conversation between Cory Doctorow, a journalist and science fiction author, and Ramesh Srinivasan, a professor at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.
By Leilani Krantz
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June 25, 2025 6:52 p.m.Sproul Landing’s aeroponic Tower Gardens bring fresh produce from tower to table
This post was updated June 25 at 9:17 p.m.
Gina Osborne thought vegetables could not grow without soil.
But at the Tower Gardens on the Sproul Landing Sun Deck, she does just that.
By Sophia Pu
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June 14, 2025 5:17 p.m.‘This moment belongs to all of you’: UCLA commencement celebrates graduates
Speakers called on graduating seniors to embrace UCLA’s values amid recent political challenges at annual College of Letters and Science commencement ceremonies Friday.
The ceremonies, which took place 11 a.m., 3 p.m.
By Dylan Winward
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June 12, 2025 11:46 p.m.‘This shouldn’t be happening’: Students react to troops, ICE raids in LA
While most Bruins studied for finals, one first-year engineering student said they spent the week begging their father not to go to work.
The student – who was granted anonymity due to their fear of retaliation from the federal government – said they did not want their father to attend work after learning that U.S.
By Amanda Velasco
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