This post was July 13 at 8:43 p.m. UCLA clinicians and policy experts said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of a vaccine advisory committee could create health care disparities and undermine public trust in vaccine recommendations. Read more...
Photo: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, is pictured. (Courtesy of the White House/Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License)
Sources: UCPD. Graphic reporting by Maggie Konecky, assistant News editor. Interactive by Ayushi Kadakia, Data editor. UCPD recorded 643 unique entries in its June 1 to June 30 daily crime log. Read more...
This post was updated July 13 at 8:27 p.m. Mary Grace Stevens said she felt alone after coming to UCLA as a first-generation and low-income student. Read more...
Photo: Posters of student-initiated retention and access programs are pictured. Campus Life, a division of Student Affairs, laid off five of the programs’ project directors in June in response to federal anti-diversity, equity and inclusion directives. (Ruby Galbraith/Daily Bruin)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council typically allocates money – sometimes upwards of six-figure sums – to student organizations during its meetings but did not make any funding allocations during its first meeting of the summer June 24. Read more...
This post was updated July 6 at 7:49 p.m. Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences, was two weeks away from printing its final volume of the academic year when student editors learned the journal would lose all of its funding from the university. Read more...
Photo: A website for Aleph, UCLA’s only official undergraduate research journal for the humanities, arts and social sciences, is pictured. The journal will enter a new era as a student organization without financial support from the university. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
This post was updated July 6 at 7:34 p.m. UC President Michael Drake announced in a Wednesday letter that student governments at all UC campuses are banned from boycotting companies associated with Israel. Read more...
Photo: Pro-Israel protesters demonstrate in Dickson Plaza in April 2024. UC President Michael Drake announced in a Wednesday letter that student governments at all UC campuses are banned from boycotting companies associated with Israel. (Brandon Morquecho/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated July 6 at 8:01 p.m. Marianna Bezhanyan created art symbolizing Russian identity. The Russian government then labeled her as an “extremist.” Bezhanyan, a rising fourth-year design media arts student, said she decided to search her name around May on a public database after her friend Nikita Shekhovtsov found himself on a similar list. Read more...
Photo: Marianna Bezhanyan, a rising fourth-year design media arts student, stands in front of her painting displayed at an exhibition. Bezhanyan found herself on Russian government lists of people labeled “extremists” and “oppositionists” after creating political art. (Courtesy of Marianna Bezhanyan)
