UCLA Housing delayed next year’s housing offers to thousands of students early last week to fix several problems with its online application system. The problems stemmed from UCLA Housing’s transition to a new software for its room assignment process, said Sarah Quinn, director of UCLA Housing. Read more...
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April 14, 1:26 am
UCLA delays housing offers because of problems with application system
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April 13, 3:54 pm
Union members demand meeting with Block on health center funding
About 30 UCLA student health center doctors and other union members marched to the office of Chancellor Gene Block on Monday to demand a meeting regarding student health center funding. Read more...
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April 13, 5:09 am
Bruin Day allows prospective freshmen to explore cultural interests
During her junior-year AP U.S. History class, Heather Thompson discovered a passion for equality through studying marginalized groups, which led her to explore UCLA clubs promoting social activism at Bruin Day. Read more...
Photo: Over 13,000 admitted students and parents attended this year’s Bruin Day. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
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April 13, 4:59 am
Chinese-American Students and Scholars Seminar holds inaugural event
A new seminar series at UCLA aims to spark discussions among Chinese students and connect them to academic and career advice from researchers. The program, UCLA Chinese-American Students and Scholars Seminar, originated from the Chinese Biomedical Peer Seminar, a program founded in 2011 and aimed to promote scientific collaboration among Chinese graduate students. Read more...
Photo: Jason Cong, a professor of computer science, speaks to the audience at the grand opening of UCLA-C3S. (Courtesy of UCLA-C3S)
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April 10, 11:08 pm
UCLA faculty approves diversity requirement
This post was updated on April 12 at 7:54 p.m. UCLA faculty and students are working to organize diversity-related course curricula before fall quarter after universitywide faculty voted 916-487 to pass a diversity course requirement proposal last week. Read more...
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April 10, 5:11 am
Student groups preserve their history with UCLA’s new archive project
Several student groups are starting to document their history in public UCLA library archives, which anyone can contribute to or view. The archives are being created with the help of UCLA’s official archivist Heather Briston, who took up her position in June 2014 and works at the Charles E. Read more...
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April 10, 5:11 am
UCLA Anderson TED Week inspires passions in students, faculty
A technology forecaster predicted in his TED Talk last month that by 2050, 80,000 humans will set off to colonize Mars. “We’re on the verge of a much greater edge of discovery: a two planet species,” said Stephen Petranek, editor in chief of the Breakthrough Technology Report newsletter. Read more...
Photo: Professor of marketing and psychology Danny Oppenheimer spoke to the audience about the pros and cons of democracy at the TED Week at UCLA event. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)