After coming out as a lesbian to her family at 13 years old, Jennifer Deng found herself in and out of rehab for self-harm, depression and anxiety. Read more...
Photo: Alyssa Griego, a fourth-year history student, performs a poem she wrote as part of an LGBTQ Awareness Week event. (Tamaryn Kong/Daily Bruin)
Eat Sweets Pastry, a boutique pastry shop that specializes in shortbread and decorated cookies, will leave Westwood when its lease ends. Its last business day will be on Saturday. Read more...
Photo: Megan Driscoll, the owner of Eat Sweets Pastry, loves the freedom that comes with being a pastry chef of her own store located on Gayley Ave. She decorates the pastries and personalizes them, baking numerous cupcakes, cookies and macarons. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The University of California launched a new website Thursday to compile and display statistics about the University. The website features various interactive graphs and charts, which users can sort by high school GPA, ethnicity, residency and gender, among other factors. Read more...
“I want people to see me as a person first and my chronic illness second,” said fourth-year psychobiology student Camille Totah. After being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of 16, Totah has used different opportunities to help raise awareness for those living with other chronic illnesses. Read more...
Photo: (Melody Ho and Carmen Luk/Daily Bruin)
The Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Read more...
This post was updated on April 16 at 9:35 p.m. Students reported finding several offensive posters on campus early Thursday that describe the group Students for Justice in Palestine as supporting terror groups, less than two months after posters with similar messages were reported across campus. Read more...
Researchers with the California NanoSystems Institute recently developed a new battery-like supercapacitor, a device that stores charge, which may rival conventional energy storage technology. The Kaner Laboratory, where the capacitor was created, published a paper on the technology in early March and presented it Saturday at the Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry in San Diego. Read more...
Photo: Researchers with the California NanoSystems Institute demonstrate a new battery-like supercapacitor, which allows for larger battery storage. (Courtesy of Penny Jennings)
