When Mihika Sridhar ran for Student Wellness Commissioner last year, she wanted to encourage marginalized communities to engage with their health and wellness. Sridhar finally realized her idea with the inaugural Health for Heritage Week from Feb. Read more...
Photo: Students post notes on a poster board at the “Caught on Film: Food for the Feed” event hosted by Student Wellness Commission’s Total Wellness and Southeast Asian Campus Learning and Retention on Friday. (Anna Syed/Daily Bruin)
Hundreds of people packed a conference room at UCLA on Friday to see Los Angeles icon Ice Cube receive an award for changing the game in entertainment and sports. Read more...
Photo: Ice Cube came to UCLA to receive the UCLA Anderson School of Management Game Changer Award for contributions to entertainment and sports. He talked about his work acting in movies and creating a league for three-person basketball. (Courtesy of Eva Rinaldi/Wikimedia Commons)
Despite historically low turnout among young voters, UCLA students said they plan to head out to the polls March 3. Voter turnout among older adults has consistently overshadowed youth turnout, according to data compiled by the U.S. Read more...
Of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in the primary election race, just three have official clubs at UCLA. From flyering on Bruin Walk to hosting debate watch parties, Bruins for Bernie, Bruins for Warren and Bruins for Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out March 1, have made efforts to drum up excitement on campus for their respective candidates. Read more...
Photo: Sen. Bernie Sanders from Vermont, Sen. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg are the only 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who have had official clubs at UCLA, which may demonstrate which candidates have been able to resonate with college students. (Keaton Larson/Daily Bruin)
The expiration of the University of California’s contract with a major publisher of scientific and medical research may have had less impact than expected, UC librarians and researchers said. Read more...
Photo: The UC and science journal publisher Elsevier’s contract expired Jan. 1, 2019. Since then, UCLA researchers and librarians said the lack of access to Elsevier articles has had less of an impact than expected. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA’s Centennial Campaign raised $5.49 billion in one of the largest fundraising campaigns ever run by a public university, UCLA announced Wednesday. The university met its goal of $4.20 billion in July 2018, 18 months earlier than planned, according to a university press release. Read more...
Photo: UCLA raised $5.49 billion as part of its Centennial Campaign, the university announced Wednesday. The fundraising drive, which began in 2014, reached its initial goal of $4.2 billion by July 2018. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA’s outdoor piano by the John Wooden Center will soon have a new look. An art competition hosted by one of the initiatives within the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative, the BEWell pod, plans to decorate traffic signal control cabinets in Westwood and a piano on campus with artwork submitted by UCLA students and employees. Read more...
Photo: Fifteen winners of the BEWell art contest can have their art displayed on traffic signal control cabinets and on the piano outside the John Wooden Center. (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin staff)
