California has more solar capacity than any other state, but residents can’t access solar power for themselves without installing their own panels.
But an August study conducted by UCLA researchers found that California has failed to build a functioning community solar program, which would allow people to do just that.

This post was updated Sept. 6 at 9:11 p.m.
The California State Assembly passed a UC-backed multibillion-dollar bond measure Monday that, if approved by voters, would fund scientific research throughout the state. 
Senate Bill 895 – or the California Science and Health Research Bond Act – would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research, which would award $7.5 billion in grants and loans to private and public research institutions, including the UC.

UCLA researchers are partnering with a biotech company to test a wearable pendant that could detect early signs of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Researchers from the UCLA Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology will conduct a year-long joint study with biotech company BioSensics.

This post was updated Aug. 25 at 1:21 p.m.
Potentially 10,000 UC doctors – including UCLA Health employees – could start the largest unionization campaign of attending doctors in United States history.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6:14 p.m.
Editor’s note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, you can reach the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the United States by calling or texting 988.

This post was updated Sept. 4 at 3:01 p.m.
A UCLA researcher received a new Amazon computing grant to make multilingual artificial intelligence more accessible.
Saadia Gabriel, an assistant professor of computer science, was awarded $250,000 of compute credits – which provide processing time, memory and storage on online computer hardware – through Amazon’s Build on Trainium grant.

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