Speakers at a David Geffen School of Medicine panel shared their career accomplishments and collective experiences as Black professionals in medicine Feb. 19.
The Legacy We Build: Celebrating Black Staff Excellence event – hosted by the DGSOM Office for Inclusive Excellence – recognized the contributions of Black professionals and aimed to foster a strong sense of community, according to the DGSOM website.

This post was updated Feb.12 at 1:12 a.m.
Speakers at the Paul Torrens Health Forum predicted that the Trump administration’s proposed health care budget cuts could threaten the coverage of millions of Californians and Americans alike.

In the National Student Data Corps at UCLA, students aim to create an inclusive community for students exploring data science.
NSDC was created in 2022 when one of its founders noticed a large number of students were unable to get into data science organizations, said Milla Nielsen, a fourth-year statistics and data science student and co-president of NSDC.

This post was updated Nov. 18 at 12:56 p.m.
Young people who experienced parental adversity are more likely to have potentially harmful bacteria in their mouth, according to UCLA.

This post was updated July 7 at 10:12 p.m.
Space Workforce 2030 is reaching out to students – from elementary schoolers to doctoral candidates – to build a more diverse community of aerospace engineers.

Following the attacks on and police sweep of the first Palestine solidarity encampment, 43 pro-Palestine protesters and other individuals – whom UCPD alleged were trying to occupy and vandalize Moore Hall – were arrested in Parking Structure 2 on May 6.

A common stereotype of scientists is that they are poor at writing.
A quick internet search brings up a Reddit post that proclaims, “90% of scientific writers absolutely suck at writing.”
However, while stereotypes about scientists have long existed, science communication – which focuses on the translation of scientific information to a variety of scientific and nonscientific audiences – has gained more attention in recent years, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic.

This post was updated April 4 at 9:07 p.m.
Obstetricians at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center found that while second-year residents are more accurate than first-year residents in estimating fetal weight, first-year residents are also capable of estimating within 10% of the true weight.

This post was updated March 10 at 9:03 p.m.
UCLA’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers raised nearly $23,000 in February to help members attend the organization’s national convention.