Academics
June 8, 2025 7:25 p.m.
A computer showing UCLA’s general education requirements is pictured. A task force made of professors is seeking to redesign current GE requirements, such as making the cluster program mandatory for first-year students. (Catherine Price/Daily Bruin)
A task force is considering new ways to revamp UCLA’s general education program, including considering making cluster program participation mandatory for first-year students.
The task force, which consists of professors across departments, was created to redesign current GE requirements and create a plan to implement the new changes.
By Alexis Muchnik
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June 5, 2025 7:31 p.m.Mariah Strawder, a first-generation student, said she felt the weight of setting a good example for her younger brothers after her mother died.
Because her mother died as Strawder began high school, she said she did not have as much time to pursue extracurricular activities while attending Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets, a Los Angeles Unified School District high school, instead needing to focus on her academics.
By Amanda Velasco
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June 2, 2025 10:21 p.m.UCLA Epicenter provides students with innovative industry experience
Raffi Simonian wanted to give students experience in solving real-world business and technology problems.
That’s why he decided to lead the UCLA Epicenter, which partners with companies to create quarterly Innovation Challenges – hands-on projects where student teams try to solve real world issues in fields like data science, marketing, e-commerce and sales – said Simonian, the program’s director.
By Catherine Wang
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May 29, 2025 3:38 p.m.UCLA researchers develop drug to counteract effects of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke
UCLA researchers have developed a drug that counteracts the impaired cognition caused by Alzheimer’s disease and reestablishes brain connections following strokes in mice.
The team began searching around six years ago for a molecule that would induce gamma oscillations – natural brain waves that are involved in memory, said Varghese John, the director of the Drug Discovery Laboratory at UCLA.
By Leilani Krantz
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May 26, 2025 7:30 p.m.Communication professor Tim Groeling elected as 2026-2027 Academic Senate chair
This post was updated May 27 at 12:56 a.m.
Tim Groeling, a professor of communication, will be the 2026-2027 chair of the UCLA Academic Senate.
Senate Elections Commissioner Joseph Watson certified Groeling’s election, according to a May 21 announcement from Senate Secretary Linda Sarna.
By Natalia Mochernak
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May 18, 2025 8:47 p.m.‘Tragic and devastating’: Scientists react to funding cuts for climate research
When Sara Graves wakes up every morning, she hopes the federal grants supporting her climate change research have not been cut.
Graves – a doctoral student in atmospheric and oceanic sciences – works as a researcher at the UCLA Center for Climate Science, where she focuses on water conservation efforts, along with other climate-related research.
By Catherine Wang and Zoya Alam
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May 16, 2025 12:41 a.m.California Community Colleges offer affordable option for in-state students
College students said the California Community Colleges system has allowed them to pursue higher education at an affordable cost.
As the largest system of higher education in the country, CCC collectively serves 2.1 million students.
By Rida Zar
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May 15, 2025 9:51 p.m.Sandra Harding, pioneering feminism scholar and former UCLA professor, dies at 89
Sandra Harding, a former distinguished professor of education and gender studies, died March 5. She was 89.
Internationally recognized for developing “standpoint theory” – which frames science as shaped by cultural and social contexts rather than as purely objective – Harding’s work critiqued classic academic theories that often overlooked the impacts of race, gender and ethnicity on knowledge production and the practice of science.
By Vivian Stein
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