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.

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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.

College students said the California Community Colleges system has allowed them to pursue higher education at an affordable cost.
As the largest system of higher education in the country, CCC collectively serves 2.1 million students.