Swirling, colorful dresses, live musical performances and shouts of encouragement filled Royce Hall on May 22, where Grupo Folklórico de UCLA hosted its first in-person Fiesta Mexicana since 2019. Read more...
Photo: Several dancers and musicians from Grupo Folklórico gather onstage at Royce Hall. The organization hosted its first in-person Fiesta Mexicana since 2019. (Javier Jauregui/Daily Bruin)
This post was last updated May 31 at 12:49 a.m. Editor’s note: Daily Bruin used Latino, Latina, Latinx, Latin@ and Hispanic in this article according to sources’ preferences. Read more...
Photo: UCLA scholars and Bamby Salcedo attend the annual UCLA Center for the Study of Women awards celebration. The center awarded the Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award to Salcedo, the president and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition. (Courtesy of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women)
This post was updated May 30 at 10:50 p.m. A new African American studies initiative will educate the next generation of scholars in celebration of 50 years of hip-hop culture. Read more...
Photo: A headset and pencils rest on books about hip-hop. A new African American studies initiative will educate the next generation of scholars about hip-hop culture. (Jeremy Chen/Daily Bruin staff)
Until college, Mahika Nayak hadn’t realized how challenging it would be to find culturally specific resources for mental health. The fourth-year neuroscience student said she felt it was difficult to seek resources or find a community where she could speak out about mental health, and many providers at the UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services center don’t always understand the cultural significance of certain stressors. Read more...
Photo: A class in session of Asian American Studies 88S: “Log Kya Kahenge: Understanding South Asian Mental Health Stressors, Challenges, and Stigma.” Instructor Mahika Nayak said she hopes the class will foster open discussion about mental health for students from South Asian communities. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
This post was updated May 21 at 10:36 p.m. Hundreds of prospective transfer students and their families gathered at Kerckhoff patio to meet possible future peers and administrators Friday. Read more...
Photo: Prospective transfer students receive UCLA merchandise at the entrance booth for the New Admit Transfer Mingle. Hundreds of transfer students and their families gathered at Kerckhoff patio Friday. (Sandra Ocampo/Daily Bruin)
A technology entrepreneurship boot camp has recently become an official course at UCLA after four years of being run as an informal program. The course, Engineering 170: “Project-Based Technology Bootcamp for Social Impact,” was originally inspired by students in 2017, said Raffi Simonian, senior program manager in the Office of Advanced Research Computing and the instructor of Engineering 170. Read more...
Photo: Past students in the technology entrepreneurship boot camp pose for a picture during fall 2019 demo day. After four years as an informal program, the boot camp has doubled in size and become an official UCLA course. (Courtesy of Raffi Simonian)
Barbara Morrison would always say you can’t live in fear, according to Emily Silva, Morrison’s former student. “You can (could) always go to her for those kinds of things because she always knew how to bring you back down to earth,” said Silva, a fourth-year global jazz studies student. Read more...
Photo: Adjunct associate professor and Grammy-nominated jazz singer Barbara Morrison is pictured. Morrison died March 16 at the age of 72. (Courtesy of George Gee Swing Orchestra)
