One student sustained minor injuries in a chemical explosion Tuesday night. The Molecular Sciences Building was closed for the night after a chemical explosion occurred around 8 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Read more...
Photo: One person sustained minor injuries in a chemical explosion at the Molecular Sciences Building on Tuesday night. There are no further injuries or contamination, a UCLA spokesperson said. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Alejandra Cervantes is teaching fellow undergraduate students how to improve STEM teaching in higher education through her own credit-bearing class. Cervantes, a fourth-year mathematics and computer science student, created a seminar called “Lifelong Kindergarten: Reimagining STEM Higher Education Pedagogy” through the Undergraduate Student Initiated Education program. Read more...
Photo: Under the Undergraduate Student Initiated Education program, third-year and fourth-year students can develop and teach a one-unit seminar with the help of faculty supervisors and a chosen advisor over the course of the year. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin staff)
Student government election coordinators were found Friday to have violated their constitution and election code. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board found at a hearing Thursday the USAC Election Board failed to treat all candidates equally and to enforce campaign deadlines, in line with election guidelines. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board found multiple violations that the USAC Election Board had committed. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
Quarter system got you down? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Bruin Tea is a series investigating student questions and petty concerns about UCLA. Question: Who chooses the dining hall music? Read more...
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Complaint: Why are Boelter Hall and the Mathematical Sciences Building so confusing? South Campus students criticize the layout of the connected Boelter Hall and Mathematical Sciences Building. Read more...
Photo: South Campus students are criticizing the Mathematical Sciences Building and Boelter Halll’s layout, saying the structures are confusing to navigate. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
This post was updated April 15 at 2:32 p.m. The Daily Bruin editorial staff met with The Bruin’s publishing board Wednesday to call for reforms in the policies governing the appointment of future editors in chief, after several Bruin staff members announced a strike Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Dozens of Daily Bruin staffers went on strike Tuesday morning after the board which oversees the paper selected an editor in chief against the staff endorsement. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Standing outside Murphy Hall, service workers wearing green shirts and carrying noisemakers and rattles chanted, “We are not afraid.” University of California service employees held a systemwide strike Wednesday after their union claimed the UC had condoned the intimidation of workers participating in previous strikes. Read more...
Photo: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, the UC’s largest employee union, held a systemwide strike Wednesday in response to the UC’s alleged intimidation of workers. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
