This post was updated on Jan. 24 at 4:50 p.m. Alexandra Latshaw and Elizabeth Mills spend much of their time in physics laboratories, meticulously planning experiments and scribbling down equations that look like they belong on a “The Big Bang Theory” whiteboard. Read more...
Photo: About 250 students attended the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics last weekend at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. (Yixuan Gong/Daily Bruin)
Nadine El Fawal was apprehensive about moving to a new country at age 14, but her mother said that in America, her dreams would come true. Read more...
Photo: Nadine El Fawal, a first-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, immigrated to Virginia from Egypt four years ago and said she experiences discrimination because of her identity. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)
Undergraduate Students Association Council members want to find ways to improve the entrepreneurship curriculum at UCLA. Members of the office of USAC General Representative 2 and groups in the entrepreneurship community attended the Entrepreneurship Council’s conference Friday, which discussed how to improve UCLA’s entrepreneurship culture and education. Read more...
Photo: The Entrepreneurship Council discussed about ways to improve entrepreneurship culture on campus at a conference on Friday. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA alumnus took his frustration at the lack of available parking spots near campus and developed it into a website. Ryusei Shimizu, who graduated in 2015, founded Poasis, a website that aims to connect people who have extra parking spaces to drivers who need parking. Read more...
Photo: (April Ding/Daily Bruin)
Students organizing UCLA’s fourth annual Consent Week will focus this year’s program on encouraging dialogue between administrators and students and providing safe spaces for sexual assault survivors. Read more...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at UCLA and Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, hosted the third annual IDEA Hacks this weekend. IDEA Hacks is UCLA’s first 36-hour hardware hackathon held in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students spent 36 hours in Ackerman Grand Ballroom to create a product related to exercise and sports technology this weekend. The hackathon was free for all participants. (Tianyi Ruan/Daily Bruin)
Shawndeez Jadalizadeh embarked on a four-month solo journey through her home country, which she had never visted before, in the spring of 2015. “I was slightly terrified, but I put aside my fears and fantasies to enjoy the present, to enjoy Iran,” wrote Shawndeez, a graduate student in gender studies, in a memoir about her travels. Read more...
Photo: Shawndeez Jadalizadeh, a UCLA graduate student in gender studies, wrote a memoir about her travels through her hometown, called “My Iran: an Iranian-American experience back home.” (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
