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Professor Amy Rowat featured in the UCLA Newsroom

Professor Amy Rowat featured in the UCLA Newsroom

The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research and service
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UCLA in the News, “Science Fair for Suspended Research”

UCLA in the News, “Science Fair for Suspended Research”

The Los Angeles Times featured UCLA’s “Science Fair for Suspended Research,” where faculty, postdocs, and graduate students brought their work into public spaces to protest the suspension of more than $500 million in federal research grants. With hand-made posters, lab props, and even a preserved human brain on display, researchers highlighted the critical studies in cancer, stroke recovery, addiction, and neuroscience now at risk under the funding freeze. Read the full article attached: Yes, that’s a human brain on a cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts under Trump(Los Angeles Times, Sept. 12, 2025).
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Assistant Professor Val Tornini is featured in the Los Angeles Times

Assistant Professor Val Tornini is featured in the Los Angeles Times

Assistant Professor Val Tornini (UCLA Integrative Biology & Physiology; Institute for Society and Genetics) is featured in the Los Angeles Times discussing her pioneering study on how the combined effects of urban heat and noise exposure impact brain health and behavior. Partnering with South L.A. community groups, Tornini’s team is bringing together neuroscience and lived experience to understand how environmental stressors affect Angelenos’ daily lives Read the full article, "How exposure to noise and heat affects your brain" (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 9, 2025).
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Faculty in the News

Faculty in the News

As you are all aware, UCLA has been thrust into the midst of a national political battle over federal research funding, with significant implications for our campus and trainees. In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chair Crosbie is quoted on the profound effects of the funding freeze, noting how it disrupts graduate and postdoctoral training in neuromuscular research. The piece underscores both the personal and institutional challenges facing our community. Read the full article: “Caught in a Political Fight, UCLA Professors Grapple With Uncertainties Large and Small”.
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Educational Programs

The department is proud of its long history in training the next generation of thinkers and leaders in science and medicine. The department offers an Undergraduate Program (B.S. in Physiological Science) as well as a two-year, research-oriented Master’s Program (M.S. in Physiological Science). We are a co-founder and home to the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, which is one of 11 Ph.D.-granting programs in the Graduate Programs in Biosciences (GPB) at UCLA. The department is also highly engaged with the Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program (UNSIDP). Specifically, IBP provides administrative expertise and support for UNSIDP’s leadership; staff; instruction; curriculum; courses; teaching assistants; and financial support for selected activities.

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