Aritra Mullick had a midterm Monday at 8 a.m., but was at the UCLA QWER Hacks event the weekend before working on an app that would distinguish recyclable material from trash. Read more...
Photo: UCLA and non-UCLA students filled Ackerman Grand Ballroom for Major League Hacking’s first LGBTQ+ hackathon, in which teams participants raced to create a software program within 24 hours. (Daanish Bhatti/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 27 at 12:11 a.m. UCLA will phase out single-use plastics across all campus operations starting this summer, campus organizations announced Friday. Read more...
Photo: The California Public Interest Research Group and the UCLA office of sustainability announced Friday that UCLA will phase out single-use plastics across all campus operations starting July. CALPIRG is working to make the policy UC-wide. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
In Alex Korb’s office hours, students talking about their mental health is typical. “Students will come to me in office hours to talk about their mental health problems, and they’ll preface it with, ‘Well, I’m not sure if this is what office hours are supposed to be about,’ and I’m always like, ‘Well, of course (it is),’” said Korb, who teaches Psychiatry 79: “Applied Positive Neuroscience: Skills for Improving Productivity and Wellbeing.” Another class, Community Health 179: “Life Skills for College Students,” and Korb’s class both aim to teach students skills they can use in their everyday lives in college. Read more...
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Students can now opt in for gender-inclusive housing, a housing option for students to room with people who do not share the same gender, directly in the housing application. Read more...
Photo: Students can now opt in for gender-inclusive housing options on the university housing application without having to submit an additional form. This change comes after months of discussion between housing administrators and student government officials. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)
A new UCLA institute will investigate how new technologies impact society and public policy. The UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering will work together in the new UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy to determine how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, require changes in law and propose solutions to issues stemming from their usage. Read more...
Photo: Richard Re (left), a law professor, and John Villasenor (right), an electrical engineering professor, will be the co-directors of the recently established UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy. The institute will be an intercampus collaboration between the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering. (Courtesy of UCLA School of Law and Matthew Chin/UCLA)
Bruin Dine, a program that offers free food at De Neve Residential Restaurant on Thursday nights, launched last week for winter quarter. The student-run program, which aims to reduce food waste and address food insecurity on campus, serves unconsumed food from dining halls to students for free on Thursdays from 9 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Students can now get free food every Thursday until week 10 in the private dining room in De Neve with the Bruin Dine program. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA’s Bruin Reception Room in Ackerman Union will serve as a voter center for the 2020 primary and general elections. The center will be open for 11 days from Feb. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students will be able to vote in the Bruin Reception Room for both the 2020 primary and general elections. The voter center will be open from Feb. 22 to March 3 for the primary election, and will allow for casting ballots, same-day voter registration and mail-in ballot drop off. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)
