CUTF Course on LA Housing Guides Students Through Research on Policy Solutions

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The “Researching Los Angeles’s Housing Crisis” seminar, offered through the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center’s (TLC) Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program, gives students hands-on research experience by examining how zoning shapes the city.

In this seminar and other Research Practice 98T courses, undergraduates get hands-on research experience. These courses are important pathways into research for Bruins with little to no research experience.

Read the full article here.

Browse other CUTF courses being offered here.

Winter 2025 Class Offering: Research Practice 130

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3 UCLA Undergrads Receive Prestigious NIH Scholarships

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Congratulations to Fourth-year students Marinza Marzouk of Covina, California, and Monica Soliman of Los Angeles, and third-year student Samuel Zamora of San Diego for being awarded the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP)!

The NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP) offers competitive scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research.

Each of the UCLA honorees will receive up to $20,000 per year for up to four years. In exchange, they will complete 10-week, paid summer internships in NIH laboratories and, after they graduate from UCLA, work as full-time employees in NIH labs for one year per year of scholarship support they receive.

Read more here.