A Los Angeles nonprofit awarded the UCLA Grand Challenges program $100,000 for its environmental improvement initiative on Tuesday. LA2050, an initiative aimed at improving the city’s educational, environmental, health and safety standards, gave 10 Los Angeles-based projects $100,000 each this week for their work to improve the city. Read more...
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October 2, 2:09 am
UCLA Grand Challenges program awarded $100,000 grant
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October 2, 2:07 am
Bruin Café reopens Thursday with renovations and updated menus
Students will be able to swipe for several new sandwiches when Bruin Café opens Thursday morning. The popular quick service restaurant on the Hill will have updated menus, including sandwiches such as honey mustard chicken, pastrami and eggplant and hummus. Read more...
Photo: Bruin Café will open Thursday with new menus and dishes. (Agnijita Kumar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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October 2, 2:05 am
Green Initiative Fund referendum added to special election ballot
The undergraduate student government added a referendum on Sept. 23 to its fall special election ballot to indefinitely extend mandatory students fees for the Green Initiative Fund. Read more...
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October 2, 2:01 am
Students recognize veterans’ services through Volunteer Day
UCLA students crowded into hallways with chipping taupe paint and a vegetable garden overrun with leaves and branches at a transitional veteran center Monday. In three separate groups, about 100 UCLA students raked and painted hallways on two floors of a building in the Veterans Succeeding in the 21st Century center, as part of the sixth annual UCLA Volunteer Day. Read more...
Photo: Ali Aziz, a first-year physiological sciences student, paints the hallways of a veteran center as part of UCLA Volunteer Day (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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September 29, 12:51 pm
Meeting to collect student input on diversity vice chancellor position
Students who want to weigh in on the appointment of a new diversity-related vice chancellor can meet with the position’s search committee on campus next week, officials announced in an email to students Monday. Read more...
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September 28, 12:00 am
Pro-Israel group claims bias in UCLA department
A Jewish advocacy group based in California is alleging that some UCLA professors and a research center operate with an anti-Israel, and possibly anti-Semitic, bias. Professors named by the group, however, say the group is conflating the criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. Read more...
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September 28, 12:00 am
Mentor seeks education reform to benefit underserved youth
Throughout his life, Sidney Thompson has seen students turn to gang violence because they were not given the tools to succeed by their educators. Thompson now has two goals: to recruit teachers to a UCLA graduate program specializing in underserved youth and to rewrite the way algebra is taught in schools – both to give all students a fair shot at academic success. Read more...
Photo: Sid Thompson, 83, is a volunteer mentor for the UCLA Principal Leadership Institute. The institute trains teachers in urban areas to become administrators. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)