The UCLA Food Security Work Group approved a plan last Wednesday that will allocate $75,000 in an effort to increase the accessibility of healthy food options for students struggling to afford a meal. Read more...
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June 30, 3:05 pm
UCLA School of Law appoints new executive director of media program
The dean of the UCLA School of Law appointed Monday a CBS Studios International executive to be the new executive director of the law school’s Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Law Program. Read more...
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June 30, 2:56 pm
Q&A: UCLA researcher talks role in Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling
Gary Gates, the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and research director of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, conducted research on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population that was cited in the Supreme Court’s decision Friday to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. Read more...
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June 29, 2:00 am
UniCamp relocates second session due to persisting San Bernardino fires
About 200 children and student volunteers at a UCLA nonprofit summer camp moved Saturday to a campsite in Wrightwood for the second session of the program as the San Bernardino fires that forced them to evacuate from their original site continued to spread. Read more...
Photo: UniCamp, a nonprofit summer camp, was forced to relocate again after the San Bernardino fires that forced it to evacuate from its original site in Barton Flats continued to spread. (Courtesy of Michael Starr)
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June 29, 2:00 am
New Fleet and Transit Services director aims to innovate transportation
UCLA’s incoming Fleet and Transit Services director collected city maps as a kid because he found streets fascinating. Clinton Bench said he thinks street planning, which is constrained by urban development, must be creative to get people from place to place in the fastest way possible, and Los Angeles’ history is most intriguing to look at. Read more...
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June 29, 2:00 am
UCLA works toward water conservation projects to combat drought
UCLA has undertaken several water conservation projects since 2013 because of the California drought and Gov. Jerry Brown’s emergency water restrictions, including replacing the Intramural Field’s grass with artificial turf. Read more...
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June 26, 5:34 pm
Professor, scientist Paul Terasaki gives additional $1M to UCLA
A UCLA scientist and professor emeritus of the David Geffen School of Medicine donated $1 million to the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, officials announced Thursday. Read more...