Students can minor in history as of winter 2017, the UCLA Department of History announced last week. The minor will require seven courses: two lower division and five upper division courses. Read more...
Photo: The history department will hold an information meeting in Bunche Hall tomorrow for students interested in adding a history minor. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Students began preparing for a campaign Thursday against a new housing measure that would restrict off-campus housing developments. The undergraduate student government external vice president’s office held an event for a new campaign, Save UCLA Housing: No on Measure S, to encourage discussion about the Measure S ballot initiative. Read more...
Photo: Rafi Sands, USAC external vice president, engaged in a discussion with Matthew Ziering, member of Jesse Creed for LA City Council campaign, on the need to vote against Measure S and ways to increase student voter turn out during the campaign’s first meeting on Thursday. (Haoyang Yan/Daily Bruin)
Campus Queries is a new Q&A series in which Daily Bruin readers send in science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. This week, Diane Favro, professor of architecture and urban design, answers. Read more...
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A UCLA professor is helping paralyzed individuals regain use of their limbs through electric stimulation of the spinal cord. In 2015, Reggie Edgerton, the director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory at UCLA, developed a robotic exoskeleton that helped a paralyzed man walk. Read more...
Photo: Reggie Edgerton, the director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory at UCLA, developed a robotic exoskeleton that helped a paralyzed man walk last year. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
UCLA researchers have found that e-cigarettes may not be as harmless as commonly believed. In a study published earlier this month, researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health have found that e-cigarette users may also incur increased heart risk from smoking, similar to traditional cigarette users. Read more...
Photo: E-cigarettes are electronic devices that vaporize flavored liquids which usually contain nicotine. They do not produce tobacco smoke and are commonly used by young adults. (Creative Commons photo by Ecig Click via Wikimedia Commons)
The UCLA Armenian Student Association hosted its annual “Stain of Denial” event Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Bruin Walk. The group said it hosted the event to inform others about the Armenian genocide, which took place in parts of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Armenian Student Association demonstrated on Bruin Walk Thursday to protest countries who deny the Armenian Genocide. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
Many students aren’t aware of a campaign that aims to increase funding for the University of California system, said some UC student leaders. Student volunteers for the UC Student Association’s Fund the UC campaign have increased their lobbying activities after the UC Regents increased tuition and fees by 2.7 percent, or $282, at a board meeting in January in San Francisco. Read more...
Photo: Emma Zawacki, a third-year anthropology student, Bailey Rechler, a first-year political science student and Annie Guilyard, a third-year political science student, handed out flyers about the Fund the UC campaign, which aims to reform state law in an attempt to provide more funding for the UC. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
