When Denea Joseph immigrated to the United States from Belize at 7 years old, she did not realize she was different from most of her peers. Read more...
Photo: Denea Joseph, a fourth-year political science student is running for undergraduate student government president under the student-run political group, or slate, Waves of Change. (Hannah Ye/Assistant Photo editor)
A UCLA-owned apartment complex will be demolished and rebuilt over two years to almost triple the building’s current occupancy. The Margan Apartments, a seven-story, 39-unit apartment building on Levering Avenue will be rebuilt from July 2017 to 2019 to have 42 units and up to 10 stories, said Peter Angelis, assistant vice chancellor of Housing and Hospitality Services. Read more...
Photo: The Margan Apartments, a seven-story, 39-unit apartment building on Levering Avenue which is owned by UCLA, will be demolished and rebuilt over two years to almost triple the building’s current occupancy. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science created the Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering on Friday after receiving donations totaling $1 million. The position, named after the school’s former dean, was created with donations from about 100 alumni, faculty members and other supporters, who worked with Dhir during the 14 years he served as dean. Read more...
Photo: The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science created the Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering named after the former dean on Friday after receiving donations totaling $1 million. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The Bruins United slate and the Social Justice Referendum of 2016 were barred from campaigning late Sunday after failing to submit required funding paperwork to the Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board in sanctions announced minutes before the first day of voting. Read more...
Candidates for next year’s undergraduate student government discussed their platforms and how they would achieve them at a debate Friday. More than 300 students attended the debate, hosted by the USAC Election Board, in the De Neve auditorium Friday evening. Read more...
Photo: Nineteen candidates attended the undergraduate student government candidate debates in De Neve auditorium Friday. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin)
Union workers protested UCLA’s lack of transparency in hiring staff for the new Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Thursday morning outside Covel Commons. About 15 uniformed employees from Covel dining hall and Bruin Cafe protested with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, chanting, “No poverty wages” and “Equal pay for equal work.” Organizers also protested by the flagpole near the Humanities Building Thursday afternoon. Read more...
Photo: UCLA dining hall workers protested Thursday near the flagpole and outside Covel Commons asking for better wages and more transparency from UCLA when hiring new staff. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Mojave Desert’s dusty red plains constitute a vast landscape of sand, creosote bush and cinder-cone mountains – sparse, uninhabited and dry. But on certain days, a team of UCLA geologists, cosmochemists and planetary scientists scours acres of the desert landscape for meteorites, chunks of rock that have fallen from space. Read more...
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