This post was updated June 9 at 4:48 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.

The UC is considering transitioning all its campuses to a common semester calendar – but some faculty members are concerned about costs, workload and a lack of staff input.

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.

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.

This post was updated May 29 at 3:47 p.m.
Editor’s note: The following piece contains mentions of persecution, which could be disturbing to some readers.

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.

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.