Bioengineering doctoral student Joseph de Rutte overcame the odds to win this year’s $10,000 Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening Innovation Award, becoming only the second student to ever win the prize in its 16-year history.

The only student finalist, de Rutte won the award in January for his innovative approach to sorting cells that uses equipment readily available at most labs.

Five cases of measles broke out in Los Angeles County in April.

Urgent messages were sent to 125 UCLA students, asking them to submit to being quarantined. Students were shuffled into a building with metal panels sealing the doors. In the middle of UCLA’s midterm exam season, students hunched over their computers, frantically searching for medical documents.

On the staircase between Royce and Haines Hall, the group of nine stands split. On the right, seven men stand, each holding roses. Across from them, on the left, just two, hands empty, stare at a single remaining rose, held by a group member's girlfriend, as they all pose with slight smiles on their faces. In a second, Rubalcava will snap a photo, his camera’s telltale click capturing the friends’ playful expressions forever.

Game of Thrones’ longest, most expensive episode yet pulls out all the stops to deliver a battle fans will never forget.

The armies gathered at Winterfell are in for a long night, and this week’s episode makes great use of timing, stretching moments to build on the tension of battle.

Monarch butterflies, long a part of California’s winter landscape, may soon be on their way to extinction.

The 2018 Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count found an all-time low of 28,429 monarch butterflies in California – down 86 percent from 192,668 in 2017.

Researchers studying depression spoke about the reasons they study the condition and described the purpose and work of the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge at an event on campus Tuesday.

Speakers at the TEDxUCLA Salon talked about the DGC’s new research techniques, their efforts to help those with depression and personal stories about the effects of depression.

Health care isn’t the reason students come to UCLA. But it could be the reason they don’t stay.

UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center is charged with addressing the medical needs of students. Paired with Counseling and Psychological Services, the Ashe Center provides students the care they need while being conveniently available on campus.

At least, that’s how it’s meant to be.

Westwood is still reeling from the debilitating, lingering effects of the previous era, despite the WWNC being replaced by the new North Westwood Neighborhood Council – a council that promises a more student- and business-friendly neighborhood. Despite offering minimum services for students, the Village does not offer options for students looking to fulfill their most basic shopping needs.

Do we really need neighborhood councils?

Those words were on every month’s agenda when Jerry Brown was president of the Westwood Neighborhood Council.

Yes, every month. No, not Gov. Jerry Brown.

Brown was WWNC’s first president when the council was formed in 2010. He retired in 2016.

It takes a lot of work to marginalize 3.5 million Americans at once.

But the ROTC did just that when it stereotyped Muslims to portray enemy combatants.

During a training held by UCLA’s and California State University, Fresno’s Army ROTCs in early April, students acting as enemy soldiers in combat simulations wore clothing commonly worn by civilians in Arab countries. The clothing included kufiyyas and iqals, which are better known as the flowing scarves Arab men traditionally wear on their heads.

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain. UCLA probably didn’t expect that moment to come for its bike share program so soon.

UCLA started its Bruin Bike Share program last year in an effort to provide affordable transportation to students on and around campus. UCLA said in November, a month after the program had launched, that initial participation in the program had exceeded its expectations: It expected to sell 425 monthly or yearly memberships and ended up selling 498.

Members of the Westwood Neighborhood Council said at a meeting Wednesday night they want to share custody of Westwood Village if community members vote to create the North Westwood Neighborhood Council.

The council unanimously passed a motion to designate the Village a shared resource between the current council and the proposed North Westwood Neighborhood Council. Westwood Forward, a coalition of students, homeowners and business owners, submitted an application to form the new council in December, and voters can decide whether to approve the council’s formation on May 22.

There weren’t many people for me to look up to when I grew up. Born and raised an Egyptian in California, I obviously had my parents, but I never really saw someone like me doing big things in science, politics or entertainment.

It felt like I was living in a world that wasn’t built for me – a world that didn’t include me or people like me in its plan for the future. That was all supposed to change after I came to UCLA, one of the most diverse universities in America.

The UC Board of Regents voted 12-3 in favor of increasing nonresident supplemental tuition by 3.5 percent. The board was originally scheduled to vote on both tuition and nonresident supplemental tuition increases at its January meeting, but deferred the vote to negotiate for additional state funding. The regents may consider an increase in base tuition, which both in-state and out-of-state students pay, at its May meeting.

The UC Board of Regents is meeting at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center this week to discuss issues such as nonresident tuition increases and the University’s financial operations. Several groups, including the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Students for Justice in Palestine held a picket line next to the center, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, the UC Regents have to go.”

The Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars met with student leaders Feb. 7 to talk about the changes in national immigration enforcement that have taken place in the past year. Sam Nahidi, the center’s interim director, said the new Department of Homeland Security definitions of what constitutes a threat has made it easier for arrested international students to be denied entry to the U.S. or to have their visas terminated.

Step aside, Bruin Bear. UCLA has a new contestant for school mascot – the Bird scooter.

One night, the community went to sleep peacefully. The next morning, the Birds had appeared in large packs around the neighborhood – a silent mechanical invasion. They’re black, branded and can be found parked in front of campus buildings or being ridden by students up and down Bruin Walk.

UCLA said it has no plans to shut down a Chinese language and culture center affiliated with the Chinese government, despite comments from federal authorities who believe the center expands China’s political influence.

Christopher Wray, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in a Congressional hearing Tuesday that the bureau was concerned about Confucius Institutes, which are educational centers for Chinese language and culture at universities worldwide.

Imagine being on a campus of 50,000 students and not always being able to hear what’s going on around you. Extracurricular activities would be rather confusing, guest speakers would be speaking gibberish unless you stared intently at their lips and group projects would be a nightmare.

This is the life hard of hearing students live at UCLA.

UCLA held mock graduate school classes Tuesday to help transfer students find out if graduate school is for them.

More than a hundred students attended Transfer On: Pathways and Possibilities, hosted by BruinX and the Transfer Student Center in the UCLA School of Law. Students were able to attend graduate-level lectures in medicine, law and business, or social psychology and education.