This post was updated Oct. 19 at 11:21 p.m.
UC faculty and alumni earned five Nobel prizes in a single year – the most by any university system in history. 
Four UC faculty members and one alumnus won Nobel prizes related to physiology or medicine, chemistry and physics in 2025.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Chris Mattmann, the chief data and artificial intelligence officer at UCLA, sat down with science and health editor Shaun Thomas to discuss AI in cybersecurity, cyberthreats and deepfakes.

Former UCLA professor Omar Yaghi awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Fred Ramsdell became the ninth UCLA alumnus to receive the Nobel Prize Monday. 
Ramsdell, who earned his doctorate in microbiology and immunology from UCLA in 1987, received the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine alongside Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi – who hail from the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and Osaka University in Japan – for discoveries related to immune regulation. 
The trio helped uncover how the gene Foxp3 directs the development of regulatory T cells –  specialized immune cells that prevent the body from becoming overactive and attacking its own tissues, according to the scientific journal Nature.

This post was updated Sept. 25 at 3:41 p.m.
Nearly two months after the federal government froze over half a billion dollars in research funding to UCLA, the National Institutes of Health has temporarily reinstated its suspended grants Tuesday – abiding by a federal judge’s Monday ruling. 
Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto announced the restatement in a Wednesday email to the UCLA community, where he added that the majority of the university’s suspended grants have temporarily been reinstated. 
The federal government suspended $584 million dollars in funding to UCLA – including $500 million from the NIH – July 30 and 31.

In one year, Irene Ontiveros completed clinical rotations, turned in her final graduate school assignments and welcomed her daughter into the world.
With her graduation from the Joe C.

UCLA launched an AI-powered virtual assistant Aug. 28 to give students and applicants quicker answers to admissions and financial aid questions.
The university announced BruinChat on a Linkedin communication Monday.

Dr. Paul Lukac, the inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer at UCLA Health, sat down with Daily Bruin science and health editor Shaun Thomas to discuss how UCLA Health is leveraging AI to improve scheduling and organization and how it is preparing its workforce for an increasingly digital future.

This post was updated Aug. 3 at 8:50 p.m.
About 800 research grants have been suspended at UCLA, according to a Friday email from Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto.

Bioscience and medical technology leaders convened at UCLA from May 19 to May 22, combining two of Los Angeles’s premier innovation conferences.
The UCLA Technology Development Group united the UCLA MedTech Conference and LA Bioscience Ecosystem Summit for the inaugural LABEST Week with the hope of fostering collaboration across fields such as medical technology, therapeutics and artificial intelligence, according to a press release.