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.

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.