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Aug. 20, 2026 9:53 p.m.
A game controller and a laptop showing Figma and Adobe is pictured. The design media arts major will broken into separate design, games and computational art majors starting fall 2027. (Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA’s current design media arts major will be split into three new majors starting fall 2027.
The department will offer separate design, games and computational art majors, said Eddo Stern, a design media arts professor.
By Nury Salazar-Ibanez
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Aug. 17, 2026 2:00 p.m.A UCLA researcher received a new Amazon computing grant to make multilingual artificial intelligence more accessible.
Saadia Gabriel, an assistant professor of computer science, was awarded $250,000 of compute credits – which provide processing time, memory and storage on online computer hardware – through Amazon’s Build on Trainium grant.
By Kyan Wang
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Aug. 14, 2026 7:49 p.m.2 students honored with Don T. Nakanishi Award for AAPI community research, activism
Two students received the 2025-26 Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies last month for their community research and activism.
By Amanda Xi
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Aug. 7, 2026 2:32 p.m.Q&A: Dr. Robert Kim-Farley says anti-vaccination movement could spread more than just misinformation
This post was updated Aug. 9 at 6:48 p.m.
Measles cases in the United States have reached a new peak since the 1990s amid falling national vaccination rates.
By Catherine Wang
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Aug. 1, 2026 1:13 a.m.UCLA marmot research lab turns to OnlyFans after funding cuts
This post was updated Aug. 2 at 6:08 p.m.
Facing a federal funding denial, a UCLA research group is turning to OnlyFans to raise money and bring awareness to long-term research funding difficulties.
By Sophie Acker
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July 22, 2026 1:55 p.m.Amid budget deficit, political science department cuts TAs, shrinks course capacities
This post was updated July 26 at 8:12 p.m.
UCLA’s political science department cut teaching assistant and reader positions in response to a budget deficit, faculty said.
By Diana Corona
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July 15, 2026 1:43 p.m.At Kesem at UCLA, children impacted by family cancer discover community, connection
This post was updated July 20 at 12:33 a.m.
A free, student-run summer camp is fostering community and support for children who have lived with a parent or caregiver with cancer.
By Sophie Acker
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