Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck featured Sarah T. Roberts in “The Cleaners” — their movie about the anonymous people who screen objectionable content on social media.
Martin Monti received the International Guiseppe Sciacca award for using ultrasounds to stimulate brain activity in people with serious brain injuries.
The $3.5 million, five-year grant will go toward creating a center dedicated to developing an effective and affordable blood-based, cancer-screening test.
Researchers and Los Angeles’ chief sustainability officer will meet at the Hammer Museum to discuss ways to create healthier communities and increase sustainability.
The workshop is open to faculty, staff and students and will teach ways to manage and enhance internet technology literacy on smartphones, social media and browsers.
Bernard Kester, UCLA professor emeritus of design media arts who taught ceramics, weaving and design and initiated the university’s fiber art program, died Oct. 26. He was 90.
UCLA’s Baljit Khakh will receive $1.5 million over three years for research into astrocytes, which are thought to play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease.
An interdisciplinary team will produce a database that analyzes text, images, video and audio from different sources of media and identify large-scale patterns within the data.