This post was updated Jan. 18 at 12:26 a.m.
UCLA updated its masking protocol Thursday to require that individuals wear masks that are of surgical or better quality.

More than 60 people gathered outside the Wilshire Federal Building on Sunday to protest masking and vaccine requirements related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles public schools.

UCLA released new guidelines with restrictions for on-campus events and departmental social gatherings, according to a campuswide email Wednesday.
The announcement came after scientists in South Africa detected the highly transmissible omicron COVID-19 virus variant, which the World Health Organization designated a variant of concern on Nov.

This post was updated Nov. 19 at 12:34 p.m.
UCLA students hosted the school’s first-ever health technology ideathon for high school students Sunday.
Over the course of the seven-hour iGIP HealthTech Ideathon at UCLA, 12 teams of students worked together to devise solutions using health technology for a patient undergoing sudden cardiac arrest.

More than 1,000 Bruins gathered in Wilson Plaza in anticipation of Saturday’s football game against the Trojans.
Students watched as two individuals lit an approximately 40-foot bonfire as part of the annual Beat ’SC Rally organized by the Student Alumni Association on Wednesday night.

UCLA faculty and public health professionals discussed ways to combat systemic racism during the COVID-19 pandemic at a two-day virtual conference.
Panelists reflected on the continued importance of working against racism and reducing health disparities during the pandemic in a diverse range of areas at the 23rd Annual Health Equity Symposium, hosted by the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity on Nov.

More than 30 protesters gathered outside a Westwood CVS Pharmacy to oppose the Los Angeles County COVID-19 vaccine mandates Sunday.
The protest began around 2 p.m.

California is unprepared to confront increasingly extreme heat, according to a UCLA report published Oct. 27.
The report from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation outlined a lack of coordinated policy and funding efforts at the state level to address extreme heat exposure, said Gregory Pierce, co-director of the center and a contributing editor of the report.

UCLA announced Dr. E. Dale Abel as the new chair of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine in a press release Monday.
Abel, an endocrinologist, will begin as chair of the Department of Medicine Jan.

This post was updated Oct. 28 at 12:13 a.m.
UCLA began offering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots Oct. 15 for eligible faculty and staff.
The two booster shot events, scheduled to run through Sunday, are located in the basement level of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the auditorium at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, according to an Oct.