Fair Trade Colleges & Universities designated UCLA a fair-trade university Monday. University officials and student groups worked for four years to complete the steps necessary to become a fair-trade school. Read more...
Photo: Student group E3 worked with university officials to complete the process of becoming a fair-trade school by promoting fair-trade products at UCLA. (Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)
Five students received an $18,000 grant in early May to install a storm water capture system on the UCLA campus. Students on UCLA’s Sustainability Action Research’s Resilience Team plan to build a 200,000-gallon capture system that could save 1.22 million gallons of water per year, said Austin Park, a team leader and third-year civil and environmental engineering student. Read more...
Photo: The Green Initiative Fund awarded a grant to UCLA students to build a campus rainwater capture system. The system could save more than one million gallons of water per year.(Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
One person died and two were injured in a car crash Tuesday morning on Wilshire Boulevard. LAPD officer Robert Kim said a car headed west on Wilshire Boulevard at 1:50 a.m. Read more...
Sandra Parra said UCLA’s hip-hop community gave her a sense of belonging and power when she moved to Los Angeles as a freshman. Because hip-hop dance helped her identify with her culture during her first few months at UCLA, Parra, a fourth-year dance student, decided to help other students do the same in high school. Read more...
Photo: Sandra Parra, a fourth-year dance student, researches how hip-hop education helps Latino students at her local high school identify with their ethnicity. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
UCLA officials appointed a law professor as interim dean for the division of social sciences Friday. Laura Gómez will temporarily replace Alessandro Duranti as dean of UCLA Division of Social Sciences on July 1, according to a statement to faculty and staff by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh. Read more...
Photo: Law professor Laura Gómez will temporarily replace Alessandro Duranti as dean of UCLA Division of Social Sciences on July 1. (Courtesy of Todd Cheney)
A University of California Board of Regents committee nominated Paul Monge to be the student regent for the 2017-2018 academic year. Monge, a UC Berkeley law student, spoke with the Daily Bruin’s Ryan Leou to discuss what motivated him to become student regent and how he plans to address student issues. Read more...
Photo: Paul Monge, a University of California Berkeley law student, was nominated as the student regent for the 2017-2018 academic year. (Courtesy of Paul Monge)
A man who has robbed six people in Westwood Village since September was sentenced Monday to nine years and four months in state prison. Dennis Toliver pleaded no contest to two counts of first degree robbery and robbery charges from previous arrest at a preliminary hearing at the Airport Courthouse Monday morning. Read more...
