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We offer six types of doctoral degrees in over eighty fields of study. Most of our doctoral degrees are PhDs; we also offer a Doctor of Education, Doctor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Doctor of Public Health, Doctor of Musical Arts, and Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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Doctoral programs vary widely in the number of required courses as well as additional requirements. Most programs use the first year to prepare students for their chosen field. Some programs conduct an end-of-the-year exam for each first-year cohort, while others evaluate student by courses, papers, and projects completed in that first year. In addition to being assigned a Student Affairs Officer (SAO) by your program, you’ll also mutually choose your Faculty Advisor. Generally this is a natural process where a student’s and a faculty member’s interests and areas of specialization align. This relationship is an important one, which lasts well beyond a student’s tenure at UCLA. In your first year, you’ll take courses with a wide variety of faculty and make lasting friendships with your cohort.

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We’ve assembled all UCLA-wide forms that may be useful to a graduate student on a Master’s track in one place:  Forms for UCLA Doctoral Students . Your specific program may provide additional forms for your use. Here are some of the most common.

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KNOW YOUR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

To keep on track, a Doctoral student must meet specific requirements for a student’s program.

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Your Program Requirements cover most things a current student needs to know in order to graduate on time.  Our FAQs  answers a few common questions about program requirements. Any outstanding questions can be answered by your program through their website or from your Student Affairs Officer (SAO).

If your program offers a Master’s Degree along the path toward a Doctorate, you’ll be required to initiate a specialized process and meet criteria specific to your program.

NOMINATE YOUR DOCTORAL COMMITTEE

During your second or third year, you’ll begin assembling (nominating) your Doctoral Committee. Your committee is comprised of 4 or more faculty members (3 or more faculty members for professional (non-Ph.D.) doctoral committees) who are experts in your field who can guide you in your research. Some committee members will be on-campus while a few may be located at another academic institution. All committee members will be responsible for reviewing your work periodically, advising you on your direction and independent research, assessing your university oral qualifying exam, and approving your dissertation.

On occasion, your committee will fall out of compliance, in which case you’ll be required to  reconstitute your Doctoral committee . Common reasons include when one of your committee members leaves her or his post at UCLA or when you or a current committee member decides that you’ll benefit more by working with a different faculty member.

For more about your doctoral committee, see the Graduate Council’s guide  Graduate Student Academic Rights and Responsibilities  and  Standards and Procedures for Graduate Study at UCLA .

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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY

Becoming a doctoral degree candidate is not a given. The first phase of your doctoral program is supervised by a faculty advisor or guidance committee. Your program will administer the written, and in some cases the program’s oral qualifying, exam after you complete courses and other preparatory work recommended or required by your program

Your doctoral committee may also require additional written exams. Only upon satisfactory completion of the written and oral qualifying requirements may you advance to candidacy. A student must also have met language requirements for advancement. This accomplishment generally happens between your second and fourth year.

CONTINUE PROGRESS TOWARD YOUR DOCTORAL DEGREE

With the guidance of your Doctoral Committee, you’ll conduct fieldwork, research, writing, and independent study all the way up through your dissertation.

While you’re completing your degree, keep an eye on your future. Be sure to participate in the great career and professional development events and resources at UCLA.

DEFENDING YOUR DISSERTATION

Some programs require you to present your dissertation to your doctoral committee in a time-honored event called the final oral examination (or final defense). To find out if your program has this requirement, consult your program requirements for the year you were admitted (see KNOW YOUR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS above).

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You will complete an approved doctoral dissertation that demonstrates your ability to perform original, independent research and constitutes a distinct contribution to knowledge in your principal field of study.

CELEBRATE YOUR GRADUATION

Doctoral Degrees are awarded four times a year, and are integrated into a single commencement—called the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony—held once each year at the beginning of June.  UCLA Graduate Commencement for Doctoral Students  is where you’ll find info about tickets, locations, schedule, parking, and dress code (including caps and gowns). For information on commencement ceremonies hosted by various graduate departments and programs, search for your program on this year’s schedule .

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Apply for Survivors + Allies’ Summer Fellowship ! This summer will be focused on coalition building, education, and policy work.

Applicants do not need to be an S+A member to apply for the fellowship.

If you’re not familiar with Survivors + Allies, their research report with recommendations, and demands for the UCs to better support survivors is here .

The (entirely remote) summer fellowship will run roughly from July 1 through August 31, 2024, depending on Fellows’ schedules. Expected workload is 10 hours per week. Each Fellow will receive around $1500-2000, we will finalize this by the time application decisions are made. Each team will decide their own hours and how they want to work together; the full Fellows team will communicate over email and do bi-weekly checkins to share updates. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center is generously funding fellowships and will work with Fellows to disburse stipends; please note that this process can sometimes take a few months!

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Legal/ policy development team : Identifying previous legislation that is relevant to our work/ we could build off; Identifying gaps in previous legislation where our research shows changes are needed; Drafting list of legislative priorities (based on gaps and our research) that Mobilization Team can use when reaching out to new orgs for the coalition and the Research Comms team can use to create policy and educational briefs; Examining what legislation can do vis-a-vis the UCs/ Cal States that have more autonomy; working with Policy Advisor to begin drafting legislation that we could show to nonprofits, policymakers, and student orgs in the fall.

Mobilization team : Meeting with nonprofit and community organizations in California to build relationships/ identify synergies; Identifying a “champion” nonprofit advocacy organization with experience doing policy work; Meeting with CARE offices to build relationships; Creating list of relevant student organizations on California university campuses that we can reach out to in the fall; Reaching out to faculty and centers of research who are interested in supporting our work.

Research Communications team : (1) Create policy briefs (in collaboration with Legal/ Policy Development team) that could support our research-backed arguments related to legislation, and trying to garner support from policymakers in the fall. For example, one of our policy priorities might be to mandate trauma-informed trainings for UCPD, and the Policy brief team would create a 2-page brief on this topic based on our and other researchers’ data aimed at policymakers. (2) In addition, create educational briefs aimed at other survivor advocacy and community-based organizations that can help raise awareness about our findings to support other advocacy groups’ work (including posts for social media, if time). Coordinate with CSW| Streisand Center to put research and educational briefs on website.

Policy Advisor (not a Fellow, paid on hourly basis up to $800 over the 2 months): Oversee policy strategy; help identify legislation; connect team with relevant orgs/ policy strategists; help draft example legislation.

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College Sports | UCLA gymnast Alex Irvine transfers to Auburn…

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College sports | ucla gymnast alex irvine transfers to auburn after freshman season, irvine, who was considered an up-and-coming talent for the bruins, is the second gymnast to leave ucla after selena harris was dismissed from the team.

“Found what I was looking for,” she wrote in the post. “Thank you Auburn coaches for a great visit and my family for trusting me to make big decisions like this.”

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Irvine just completed her freshman season at UCLA and was seen as an up-and-coming gymnast for the Bruins. She reliably fit into the vault, uneven bars and floor exercise lineups whenever injuries had kept more experienced gymnasts from competing.

She competed four times in vault with two season-best scores of 9.850 and three times on uneven bars with a high score of 9.900. Her competitive debut on floor scored a 9.750.

Irvine is now the second UCLA gymnast to leave the program after Selena Harris was dismissed from the team and entered the transfer portal . Harris shared Irvine’s Instagram post announcing her transfer to Auburn with the caption “Kinda ate with this one.”

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UCLA Women's Basketball: Latest Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll Includes Several Bruins

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UCLA women's basketball boasts five honorees on the Pac-12 Conference's 2024 Winter Academic Honor Roll, as announced by the conference office on April 26.

Senior Emily Bessoir, a double major in Communication and Psychology earned the recognition for the third-consecutive time. 

Four sophomores received the honor in their first opportunity to be included on the list.

Christeen Iwaula, a Labor Studies major, earned recognition in her final season as a UCLA Bruin. She announced her commitment as a transfer to Ole Miss on April 30.

Gabriela Jaquez, who is officially a dual-sport athlete for the Bruins since being added to the softball team’s roster for the postseason, is studying Sociology and earned the academic honor.

Kiki Rice and Lina Sontag also earned recognition for their academic accomplishments. Rice is majoring in Communication and Sontag is studying Public Health.

The 2024 Winter Academic Honor Roll includes 404 student-athletes who participated in the Conference-sponsored sports of men's and women's basketball, women's gymnastics, men's and women's swimming, diving, and wrestling. Any student-athlete on their respective team roster with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.3-or-above, and who has served at least one year in residence at the institution, is eligible for the distinction.

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Maren Angus-Coombs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Nashville, Tenn. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and has been a sports writer since 2008. Despite being raised in the South, her sports obsession has always been in Los Angeles. She is currently a staff writer for the LA Sports Report Network.

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Fyodor d. urnov: pioneering gene editing for medical breakthroughs.

A trailblazer in the field of therapeutic genome editing, Fyodor D. Urnov’s research focuses on developing medicines for devastating genetic diseases.

Fyodor D. Urnov ‘96 Ph.D. is Professor of Molecular Therapeutics in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of Technology and Translation at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI). He co-developed the toolbox for human genome and epigenome editing, co-named the term “genome editing”, and was on the team to advance the first-in-human applications in a clinic. 

Urnov also helped identify the genome editing target for the first medicine approved to treat sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. A major goal for the field of genome editing and a key focus of Urnov's work is expanding access to CRISPR therapies (which modify genomes) for genetic diseases to those most in need. 

He will receive the Horace Mann Medal at the Doctoral Ceremony during Brown University’s Commencement weekend. 

Prior to attending Brown, Urnov completed his undergraduate studies in biology at Moscow State University in Russia. He then joined the Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry (MCB) department at Brown where he earned his doctoral degree. His dissertation work focused on the DNA structure and chromatin dynamics of one of the scarce origins of replication that are thoroughly understood, initiating DNA synthesis prior to cellular division. He worked in the lab of Susan Gerbi, the George Eggleston Professor of Biochemistry and founding chair of the MCB department. 

Urnov credits his pioneering work on gene editing to the doctoral training he received at Brown. Urnov then completed postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health before joining Sangamo BioSciences, a biotech firm in the San Francisco bay area as a Senior Scientist and Team Leader. 

At every stage of his career, Urnov’s exceptional work has been marked by medical breakthroughs and awards. One of the most groundbreaking biological advancements in recent years involves the ability to safely and precisely modify DNA sequences within genes - gene editing. This innovation began with the development of proteins designed to selectively bind to specific DNA sequences and enact targeted alterations. These proteins, known as "zinc-finger nucleases" or ZFNs, have paved the way for transformative research in genetic engineering.

In 2005 at Sangamo, Urnov spearheaded a pivotal study showcasing the efficacy of ZFNs to precisely target a disease-causing  sequence in the genome and correct it. The study was published in the journal Nature. The field of therapeutic genome editing, which Urnov co-named, was thus born. This paper marked the inaugural instance of mutation correction in human cells. The study demonstrated remarkably efficient repair (i.e. editing) of a mutated gene linked to severe combined immune deficiency, underscoring the potential of gene editing technology in addressing genetic disorders - potential that has recently started to be realized.

After this initial publication, interest in using gene editing technology exploded. Stuart Orkin, the David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute collaborated with Urnov to use gene editing to cure sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta-thalassemia (both inherited blood disorders), ushering in the first CRISPR gene editing clinical trial for a genetic disease, treating both SCD and thalassemia patients. In both of these inherited diseases, the gene for making beta-hemoglobin is disrupted. 

“Fyodor Urnov has been a visionary in the field of gene manipulation and editing, and is widely recognized both for his scientific contributions and his remarkable skill in communicating the work to other scientists and the public,” shares Orkin.

The outcome of the clinical trials have thus far been transformative for the around 100 patients involved; all have been symptom-free after gene editing. Based on these results the FDA has approved this approach as the first-ever gene-editing based medicine - a medicine for which a key foundation was the work Urnov did in collaboration with Orkin.

Urnov’s other collaborations at Sangamo led to the deployment of genome editing in human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for basic science and translational applications. Examples include applied gene editing to Down syndrome and in vivo therapeutics for Huntington’s disease and Alzheimer’s dementia.

In 2019 Urnov moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he took on the challenge of building CRISPR Cures research and development teams for genetic diseases of the blood and the brain, genetic disorders of the immune system, radiation injury, cystic fibrosis, and neurological disorders. 

Urnov explains gene editing technology in a New York Times article from December of 2022.

“Gene editing relies on a molecular machine called CRISPR, which can be instructed to repair a mutation in a gene in nearly any organism, right where that “typo” occurs. Impressively versatile, potential applications for CRISPR range from basic science to agriculture and climate change. In medicine, CRISPR gene editing allows physicians to directly fix typos in the patients’ DNA. And so much substantive progress has been made in the field of genetic medicine that it’s clear scientists have now delivered on a remarkable dream: word-processor-like control over DNA.” 

As Urnov explains in this piece, a wealth of regulatory hurdles and healthcare economics challenges have, to date, prevented gene editing from making a greater impact. Urnov shares, “the invention of CRISPR gene editing gave us remarkable treatment powers, yet no one should do a victory lap. Scientists can rewrite a person’s DNA on demand. But now what? Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with CRISPR for all.”

An effort to bring us closer to that world is now the centerpiece of Urnov’s professional life. His work currently focuses on developing scalable, affordable platforms to engineer gene editing cures on-demand for severe disorders of childhood. Urnov directs a unique academia-industry partnership, the IGI-Danaher Beacon for CRISPR Cures, that is advancing to the clinic innovative treatments for inborn errors of immunity that cause severe diseases of infancy.

Urnov has made an impact at UC Berkeley and IGI beyond his research. As the Covid-19 pandemic commenced, he assumed the task of organizing resources to set up a nonprofit diagnostic clinical laboratory at IGI for swift testing of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The objective was to offer greater throughput, faster results, and enhanced accuracy compared to existing commercial options - and provide such testing for free to communities most in need. 

As described in Walter Isaacson’s best selling book, The Codebreaker , Urnov emerged as a pivotal figure in this initiative, playing a significant role in resource mobilization encompassing equipment, personnel, and funding - and ultimately providing over 500,000 free COVID tests to individuals in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities when for-profit testing laboratories failed at the task.

Not only is Urnov renowned in the field of gene editing, but his list of publications, teaching ability, and public speaking acumen is also exceptional. Urnov has authored more than 100 scientific publications and is an inventor on 87 published patents related to genome editing and targeted gene regulation technology. His 2005 Nature paper has been cited over 2000 times, and a subsequent paper he wrote for Nature Reviews Genetics has been cited over 2500 times. Many of his other papers have been cited over 1000 times.

“Fyodor is a world class researcher at the forefront of arguably the most exciting and important biomedical research advance in our lifetimes – genome editing – because he is perhaps the most engaging orator I have ever heard speak, because he is a scholar of truly extraordinary depth and breadth of knowledge in biomedicine, and because he is a dedicated and highly effective teacher and mentor,“ shares David Drubin, Ernette Comby Chair in Microbiology and a professor of Cell and Development in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.

Urnov is also known for being a dynamic public speaker and teacher and is much sought after. Urnov credits his experience as a graduate student instructor here at Brown for his interest in teaching, starting with watching faculty at Brown, including George Eggleston Professor of Biochemistry, Susan Gerbi and Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry  Kenneth Miller, in his first stint as a graduate student instructor. 

Urnov’s awards, not surprisingly, are quite notable. As far back as his time at Brown he was selected for the Barry J. Rosen Memorial Award For High Achievement In Molecular Biology and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In 2014 he was named as one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters and received a Fellows Award for Research Excellence from the National Institutes of Health.

UC regents order UCLA to pay $10 million annually in ‘Calimony’ for three years

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The University of California regents on Tuesday ordered the school to pay conference rival California a maximum $10-million annual subsidy for leaving the Pac-12, but in a temporary triumph for UCLA , for only half of the previously proposed period .

By a vote of 7-1, the regents’ special committee on athletics endorsed the plan for UCLA pay Cal for each of the next three years — instead of six — because of a projected $50-million-per-year disparity in the schools’ athletic revenue with UCLA joining the Big Ten Conference.

The regents said they intended to revisit the payment amount halfway through UCLA’s six-year contract with the Big Ten that ends in 2029-30. They also agreed that any change in revenue or expenses for UCLA or Cal exceeding 10% of the 2024-25 figures would trigger immediate discussions to adjust the payment amount.

The measure still has to be approved by the full board of regents Thursday, though that’s expected to be a formality.

UC president Michael V. Drake had recommended that UCLA make the $10-million payment through the full duration of the school’s Big Ten contract. The eight-figure payment the regents approved represented the high end of the $2-million-to-$10-million range they discussed in December 2022 as part of their efforts to help close the gap in athletic revenue between the schools.

Regent Keith Ellis, who represented the lone dissenting vote, said during the open session held at UC Merced that the payments set an unwarranted precedent.

“We historically haven’t done anything like this,” Ellis said, “where we take from one campus and give to another, playing, I guess, Robin Hood.”

It’s likely that college sports will look vastly different by the time the regents revisit UCLA’s subsidy. Athletes could soon be considered employees of their universities with revenue-sharing agreements in place that drastically alter the way athletic departments operate.

“The landscape is so turbulent,” Cal chancellor Carol Christ said. “We’re going to have very difficult choices ahead.”

UCLA is being forced to pay the subsidy known as “Calimony” after announcing in June 2022 that it was leaving the Pac-12 alongside USC for the Big Ten and a far more lucrative media-rights deal starting this August. Oregon and Washington subsequently decided to join their Southern California counterparts in the Big Ten, further contributing to the dissolution of the Pac-12.

Cal later agreed to join Stanford and Southern Methodist as part of an expanded Atlantic Coast Conference while taking a reduced share of the conference’s media-rights deal.

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UCLA, which was represented at the regents meeting by athletic director Martin Jarmond, is expected to make roughly $60 million a year in media-rights revenue compared to only around $11 million for Cal during its first seven years of ACC membership. The Golden Bears will receive larger percentages of conference revenue over the next two years before getting a full share in Year 10.

Critics of the “Calimony” payments that will total at least $30 million feel UCLA is being unfairly punished for seeking the best deal to secure its own future as part of a rapidly changing college sports landscape. Should the Bruins bear the responsibility for being proactive, not to mention a more coveted commodity than the Golden Bears?

Student regent Merhawi Tesfai, a UCLA graduate student who is seeking master’s degree in social welfare and public policy, said he could not support the maximum payment for an indefinite period given the inevitable collapse of the Pac-12.

“I think we’re essentially hurting UCLA as they go to a more competitive conference,” Tesfai said, “on top of the impacts that have been put on Berkeley going to the ACC.”

A $10-million annual payment could put UCLA at a competitive disadvantage in its new conference, particularly when it’s added to a yearly tab as high as $10.32 million that the school has committed to spending on enhanced nutrition, mental health and academic tutoring for athletes in addition to more chartered flights to mitigate travel challenges.

The subsidy also represents a setback for an athletic department that has run up $167.7 million in debt since the 2019 fiscal year, spurring the move to the Big Ten that will provide value beyond the media-rights deal. UCLA also is expected to receive a larger share of College Football Playoff revenue as well as more money from NCAA tournament distributions based on the Big Ten’s recent success in both events.

Now some of that money will be headed to Berkeley, which faces its own massive deficit. Christ said her school’s athletic department was using a five-pronged approach to improve its bottom line by centralizing athletic scholarships in the financial aid office; raising a $100-million endowment for Olympic sports; increasing the revenues generated from Memorial Stadium via more income-producing events; dissolving some funds functioning as endowments and increasing the takeout of athletic endowments to the maximum; and using the UCLA subsidy.

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Taiwan's military mobilised its forces and said it was confident it could protect the island, after China started two days of "punishment" drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".

Faculty Profiles

The UCLA School of Public Health has attracted a distinguished international faculty. The following profiles, pulled from issues of the UCLA SPH Magazine , provide an example of the depth of expertise at the School. (*All links below are in pdf format. The latest Adobe Reader software can be downloaded here for free.)

Roshan Bastani , PhD Department of Health Services Tom Belin , PhD Department of Biostatistics Lester Breslow , MD, MPH, ScD Department of Health Services Patricia Ganz , MD Department of Health Services Hilary Godwin , PhD Department of Environmental Health Sciences Christina Ramirez Kitchen , PhD Department of Biostatistics Virginia Li , PhD Department of Community Health Sciences Michael C. Lu , MD, MPH Department of Community health Sciences Charlotte Neumann , MD, MPH Department of Community Health Sciences Anne Pebley , PhD Department of Community Health Sciences Michael Prelip , DPA Department of Community Health Sciences Beate Ritz , MD, PhD Departments of Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences Wendie Robbins , MSN, PhD Department of Environmental Health Sciences Robert Schiestl , PhD Department of Environmental Health Sciences Lisa V. Smith , DrPH Department of Epidemiology Zuo-Feng Zhang , MD, PhD Department of Epidemiology