Third-year psychobiology student Misty Aldrin said she started Catalyst – a quarterly science newsletter – with two of her friends to guide undergraduate STEM students through industry and academia.

Khoa-Nathan Ngo is looking to pursue research, serve his community and make a national impact.
Ngo, a fourth-year psychology student, won one of 10 National Institutes of Health undergraduate scholarships offered nationwide in the 2025-26 cycle.

Researchers celebrated the role of numerical data in scientific research at a Jan. 26 event at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.
The Lange Symposium on Computational Statics and Biomedical Data Science – hosted by the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine and Human Genetics – invited six speakers from across the country to discuss their research.

This post was updated Feb. 8 at 10:12 p.m.
The Center for Accessible Education’s new student portal makes requesting accommodations more convenient, despite an initial learning curve, students said.

UCLA is generating a nearly $400 million annual structural budget deficit, according to a Jan. 29 Academic Senate preliminary report.
The report – created by the Academic Senate’s Council on Planning and Budget – said data provided by UCLA administrators showed that the university is projected to run a combined $829.7 million deficit across the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years if it has not taken and does not take any corrective action.

Editor’s Note: This article contains references to sex offenses, including against minors, which some readers may find disturbing. This article was updated Feb. 13 at 4:55 p.m.

Daniel Walker Howe, the former chair of UCLA’s history department and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Dec. 25. He was 88 years old.
Howe was a faculty member in UCLA’s history department from 1972 to 1993 and served as the department’s chair from 1983 to 1987.