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.