An event spanning more than 50 art exhibitions across Southern California – and featured on UCLA’s campus – explored the connection between art and science to confront pressing global issues.

Whether it be to find a cooking recipe or help with schoolwork, most people use AI as a tool in their daily endeavors.
But for UCLA alumni Sid Pandiya and Yen Tan, the technology instead provided an opportunity to create a remote working tool.

This post was updated March 9 at 9:16 p.m.
The National Academy of Sciences will award a UCLA professor of neurobiology in April for deepening understanding of the brain.

This post was updated Jan. 28 at 10:58 p.m.
When Dr. Irene Chen wraps up her day teaching courses and leading research, her work isn’t finished – she then heads back to the Hill, where she is an Olympic Hall faculty in residence.

Former UCLA basketball player Russell Stong IV is tallying new assists off the court through a scholarship for low-income engineering students.
The mechanical engineering graduate student announced in March the creation of the Russell Stong IV Engineering Scholarship, which will be used to support low-income students in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

UCLA did not renew a contract for a teaching assistant, who now has to find another way to pay for his cancer treatments and tuition.
Hughlin Boyd, a graduate student in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, received an email from UCLA the day before the start of the fall quarter, informing him that he was ineligible to work as a teaching assistant for the quarter.

UCLA’s annual Relay For Life took place from noon Saturday to noon Sunday. Hosted by the American Cancer Society, the fundraising event aims to support those who have cancer and to remember those who have died from cancer.