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Check out Newsroom’s latest on the UCLA faculty and staff news — from breakthroughs, honors and milestones to memorable moments — that is shaping our campus and community.

A Bruin guide to this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

The collaboration with climate tech company Mote will help advance the university’s sustainability goals.

The Los Angeles Times spoke with UCLA information studies professor Ramesh Srinivasan about the growing role of paid social media influencers in California’s contentious Proposition 40 billionaire tax campaign. Srinivasan warned that personalized social media feeds, AI and targeted political messaging can expose voters to vastly different information, making it harder to establish a shared understanding of political issues. Read more about UCLA in today’s BBC News, CBS News and other outlets.

A UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge study finds that monthly naturalizations fell 83%, raising concerns about citizenship and voter participation.

Open Enrollment is an opportunity to review your benefits, evaluate your healthcare needs and make informed decisions about coverage for yourself and your family.

The free quarterly festival hosted by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music features performances by students in the global jazz studies program.

Fifty-seven years after the first internet message, the legendary professor looks back on a lifetime of innovation and shares lessons for the next generation.

LAist 89.3’s “AirTalk” spoke with UCLA historian Caroline Luce about her new book, “Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles,” which explores the influence of Jewish immigrant activists on the city’s early 20th-century political landscape. Luce discussed how Boyle Heights became a center for Jewish political activism and how these communities helped shape the city’s labor movement and relationships among its diverse populations. Read more about UCLA in today’s Guardian, KCAL-TV and other outlets.

The UCLA professor discusses how power, geopolitics and economics play out on the internet and through digital technologies.

UCLA gastroenterologist and alumna Dr. Lin Chang, whose research focuses on the brain-gut connection, advocates for whole-person care.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television collaboration will support Cherokee-language preservation and lay the groundwork for a future Indigenous media program.

BBC Wildlife Magazine spoke with UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professor Daniel Blumstein about an international study he co-authored that found that urban birds tend to fly away sooner when approached by women than by men. Blumstein said the findings were consistent across 37 bird species in five European countries. Researchers have yet to determine the cause of the difference. Read more about UCLA in today’s CNN, Los Angeles Times and other outlets.

Eric Avila, Martha Bailey, Wesley Campbell, Helen Deutsch and Elaine Hsiao were recognized at an event hosted by Randall Park.

The Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching celebrated outstanding educators whose creativity, dedication and connections with students are transforming the learning experience.

The Los Angeles Times spoke with Ann Carlson, founding director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA, who credits Newsom with dramatically expanding battery storage and suggests that his potential presidential ambitions have influenced his recent shifts in environmental policy. Read more about UCLA in today’s New York Times, Associated Press and other outlets.

A UCLA-led study shows that stars merging through collisions may explain how supermassive black holes formed so early in time.

The New York Times interviewed UCLA’s Jim Newton and Zev Yaroslavsky about the political challenges facing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as she seeks reelection against City Council member Nithya Raman. Criticism of Bass’ response to the 2025 wildfires has complicated her bid for a second term, but a large number of undecided voters could determine the outcome. The article also cited a UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs survey on Angelenos’ declining satisfaction with their quality of life. Read more about UCLA in today’s Time, Forbes and other outlets.

After three years, the event made a lively comeback this spring, with a few surprises and plenty to think about. Now you can watch every presentation.

As the state prepares for its midterm elections, here are some ways to make sure your voice is heard.

Variety reported on a new study by the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA examining how young audiences consume stories and what they want from entertainment. UCLA psychology professor Yalda T. Uhls, the center’s founder and CEO, said the findings show that young viewers are more discerning than Hollywood executives might realize, with many favoring unknown actors, more diverse representation and storytelling beyond traditional movies and television. Read more about UCLA in LAist, Education Week and other outlets.

UCLA experts are available to discuss climate- and environment-related topics as midterm elections approach.

UCLA researchers map how mechanical forces open DNA, enabling more precise and efficient gene activation by CRISPR to boost cell conversion.

KABC-TV profiled a patient who has survived 14 years after being diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, thanks in part to surgery and an innovative treatment at UCLA. UCLA’s Dr. Timothy Donahue explained how the targeted treatment attacks cancer cells and highlighted a new research initiative aimed at expanding therapy options for patients with the disease. Read more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, Spectrum News 1 and other outlets.

Andrew Ruane underwent the procedure in the early days of the UCLA Health adult bone marrow transplant program.