Batyah Jasper only managed to attend one uninterrupted week of classes during the first half of fall quarter because of overlap with the Jewish holidays.
Neha Farhan and other Muslim Bruins only now have a space to pray on campus after years of advocacy.

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A technology entrepreneurship boot camp has recently become an official course at UCLA after four years of being run as an informal program.
The course, Engineering 170: “Project-Based Technology Bootcamp for Social Impact,” was originally inspired by students in 2017, said Raffi Simonian, senior program manager in the Office of Advanced Research Computing and the instructor of Engineering 170.

UCLA researchers recently refined a new method to target and eliminate HIV-infected cells.
The study, published Jan. 10, showed how the treatment, known as the kick and kill method, successfully destroyed human immune cells infected with a dormant form of HIV in mice.