2020 reflections: Bruins respond to the challenges of COVID-19

When people look back, COVID-19 will be what defines 2020 — and that applies to UCLA, just like everywhere else. From forcing us to shift to remote learning, move all but the most essential jobs off campus and ultimately close the campus to the public, the pandemic remade life in ways we couldn’t have imagined.But as difficult as the challenges were, Bruins everywhere responded withthe resilience, creativity and ingenuity that embody our values.Scientists, doctors and scholars continued to pursue the research that helped the public better understand the virus.Health care workers put themselves on the line day after day to care for and comfort the sick.Campus leadership committed to keeping career employees working.Staff kept campus  going for those who needed to remain.Faculty and staff partnererd to help make sure vital information about COVID-19 was available to people who don ’t speak English fluently, which is a huge number in Los Angeles County.Professors changedhowandwhat they taught to help their students contextualize these unprecedented events.Here, we remember the many ways COVID-19 affected the campus and how the entire Bruin community — leadership, faculty, staff and students — rose to meet the extraordinary demands of the moment.How UCLA scientists are using stem cells to take on COVID-19UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research CenterMore than 230 research projects, including several led by members of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center, contributed to the f...
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