The undergraduate student government approved Tuesday night a five-day election calendar for the council’s election this spring, and discussed increased security presence at election events. This year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council election will take place May 2 to May 6. Read more...
Campus, News, Student Government
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February 10, 12:52 am
USAC announces election dates, strives for safe voting environment
Campus, News, Science & Health
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February 10, 12:51 am
UCLA welcomes new course on the search for extraterrestrial life
Students will be able to search for intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms with space signals, telescopes and radio waves in a new class this spring. Jean-Luc Margot, a space physics professor, will teach Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences C179: “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Theory and Applications,” a course open to undergraduate and graduate students who have taken Mathematics 31B: “Integration and Infinite Series” and Physics 1B: “Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields,” according to the registrar. Read more...
Photo: Students will be able to take a new class searching for extraterrestrial lifeforms in the spring. (Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Campus, News
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February 9, 12:41 am
UCLA senior anticipates launch of first campus-built satellite
In 2017, Michael Anderson will watch the UCLA Mission Operations Center launch his satellite into space. Anderson, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, was the chief engineer for the Electron Losses and Fields Investigation CubeSat, or ELFIN, the first satellite built by UCLA students. Read more...
Photo: Michael Anderson, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, helped create a satellite that will go into space next year. Anderson is one of five students to win the True Bruin Distinguished Senior Award. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Campus, News
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February 9, 12:38 am
Students aspire to level up in game design despite limited resources
Students substitute video game controllers and joysticks with food and live cacti at the UCLA Game Lab in Broad Art Center, while students across campus in the classrooms of Boelter Hall strap on virtual reality headsets to program imaginary environments for new video games. Read more...
Photo: Computer Science and Design Media Arts Students search for campus resources in video game programming. (Photos by Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin and Photo Illustration by Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A Closer Look, Campus, News
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February 8, 3:26 pm
Student, performer gives voice to messages that resonate
In March, Arami Walker took the stage to perform with a popular Argentinian band at a crowded Buenos Aires club. She spoke to the audience of locals in Spanish, a language she only learned a couple months before. Read more...
Photo: Armi Walker, a fifth-year world arts and cultures student, worked to create a bilingual poetry and song album driven by her experiences. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Campus, News, UC
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February 8, 2:43 pm
Lecturers’ union, UC reach agreement regarding new employee contract
The University of California and its lecturers’ union reached a formal agreement Friday to increase lecturers’ salary by about 6 percent over the next six months, among other changes, concluding contract negotiations between the two parties after seven months. Read more...
Photo: Lecturer union members and other supporters gathered on the steps of Powell Library in October 2015 to inform students about contract negotiations between the union and the University of California. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Campus, UC
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February 8, 12:18 pm
UCSA recap – Feb. 6-7
The University of California Student Association, comprised of representatives from the UC student governments, held its monthly board meeting on Feb. 6 and 7 at UC Santa Barbara. Read more...