UCLA Housing has taken a digital approach to showcasing campus life by posting dorm tours on Snapchat. To answer the overwhelming amount of questions UCLA Housing receives daily, the Office of Residential Life decided to have student staff post dorm tours on Snapchat, said Sara Miller, UCLA Residential Life media supervisor. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Housing has been posting dorm tours on Snapchat to engage incoming freshmen. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A pharmaceutical company will be purchasing the seller of Xtandi, a cancer treatment developed by UCLA, for $14 billion. Pfizer Inc. announced Monday that it will buy Medivation Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops disease treatments. Read more...
Graduate students will be able to examine video evidence from body worn cameras in a new course this fall. The UCLA Department of Information Studies’ four-unit seminar, “Special Topics in Information Studies: Archival Practice in the Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance Technologies,” will review policies about audiovisual material and provide training for students pursuing careers in film management, said Jean-François Blanchette, an associate professor in the Department of Information Studies. Read more...
Photo: The four-unit seminar “Management of Digital Records” offered this fall will allow UCLA graduate students to examine video evidence from body worn cameras. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
When Leonard Kleinrock’s student sent the first internet message from UCLA to Stanford, he said it felt more like a perfunctory job well done rather than a moment that would go down in history. Read more...
Photo: “Lo and Behold,” a documentary about the internet’s impact directed by Werner Herzog released Aug. 19, and features Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science professor. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
Members of the University of California Student Association, or UCSA, elected a UC Davis graduate student in entomology as its new president at the Student Organizing Summit held Aug. Read more...
Photo: Daily Bruin’s Ryan Leou spoke with Ralph Washington, Jr., the new president of the University of California Student Association, about UCSA’s two new campaigns for the upcoming year. (Courtesy of Ralph Washington)
A Bruin Cafe student employee is demanding that UCLA pay students and full-time workers in UCLA dining services equal wages. Dana Carrera, a rising third-year sociology student, started a petition last Friday that calls for UCLA Dining Services to pay its student workers $16.32 an hour, which is the starting wage for full-time employees. Read more...
Photo: Dana Carrera, a rising third-year sociology student, started a petition demanding that UCLA pay students and full-time workers in UCLA Dining Services equal wages. (Catherine Liberty Feliciano/Daily Bruin senior staff)
