Student advisers to the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion met with Vice Chancellor Jerry Kang and other administrators last Thursday. The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion created the advisory board in January to have students play a role in helping address campus climate issues. Read more...
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UCLA researchers will participate in a new science and technology center funded by the National Science Foundation. John Miao, professor of physics and astronomy, and his team of researchers, will work in the new Science and Technology Center on Real-Time Functional Imaging, or STC. Read more...
Photo: John Miao, a professor of physics and astronomy, and his research team will take part in a new imaging center funded by the National Science Foundation. (Courtesy of Shaomei Yu)
Two UCLA alumni donated $5 million to a Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science endowment Wednesday. Ronald and Valerie Sugar established the endowment to support the school and Dean Jayathi Murthy’s goals. Read more...
Photo: Ronald and Valerie Sugar, two UCLA engineering alumni, donated $5 million to the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science on Wednesday, after a previous $1 million endowment. (Courtesy of UCLA)
Cristian De Nova hid his status as an undocumented student from his friends when he was a freshman. He said he was intimidated by the strength of other UCLA students, who were active in their communities and stood for causes they believed in. Read more...
Photo: U-SPARC, or Undocumented Students for Advanced Retention and Community, will provide mentorship services to undocumented UCLA students in winter. (Efren Pinon/Daily Bruin)
Posters found on campus Wednesday portrayed the Students for Justice in Palestine as terrorist supporters and called Vice Chancellor Jerry Kang an advocate of terrorist supporters. Read more...
About 40 union members protested Thursday outside the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to advocate for higher wages. Teamsters Local 2010, the union representing UCLA administrative, clerical and skilled trade workers, argued their wages are below market value and lower than those received by workers at other California institutions. Read more...
Photo: Kimberly Aguirre, organizer with Teamsters Local 2010, protests for higher wages. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
University police are investigating an online comment made toward the Alpha Phi sorority Monday. The comment, written in the comments section of the sorority’s recruitment video on YouTube, was a short written excerpt from the video manifesto released by Elliot Rodger, the man who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in May 2014. Read more...
