Dr. Julio Meza lost two family members to addiction-related illnesses when he was a child.
Now, as a UCLA Health physician, he leads a program providing doctors with addiction-specific training.

Science advocates and UCLA Faculty Association members called on Californians to support a bill that would put scientific research funding on the 2026 ballot at a Saturday protest in Westwood.

The UC reached tentative agreements with three United Auto Workers units that had threatened to strike, the units announced Friday.
The tentative agreement, if approved, will become the first contracts for Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW and Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW, which were officially recognized by the University in April and September, respectively.

Aimée Dorr, the former UC provost and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, died Jan. 25. She was 83.
Dorr joined the UCLA faculty in 1981 as a professor in the education department who researched the impacts of electronic media on children.

Law professor Alex Wang credited China for its advancements in green technology but criticized its shortcomings in ecological protection at a book talk Wednesday.
The talk was divided between Wang’s explanation of his book titled “Chinese Global Environmentalism” and a conversation between him and Mary Nichols, the former chair of the California Air Resources Board.

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Kay Chung, a TikTok content creator and fourth-year dental student at the UCLA School of Dentistry, sat down with science and health contributor Maanasi Kademani to discuss her academic journey and her experience documenting it on social media.