Monday, May 18

Students, participants donate hair at UCLA’s Relay for Life

Cutting off their hair was another way for many students at Saturday’s Relay For Life event to help patients fighting cancer. The design team from Paul Mitchell The School Sherman Oaks provided $10 haircuts for donation to the American Cancer Society, a nonprofit organization that aims to eliminate cancer. Read more...



UCLA bone marrow drive to help patients with blood cancer

Through caring for her father’s leukemia, Florence Roussotte is helping match numerous blood cancer patients with potentially life-saving bone marrow donations. Roussotte is going to bring her efforts to UCLA on Friday afternoon at a marrow donor registry drive in the MacDonald Medical Research Laboratory. Read more...

Photo: Postdoctoral neuroscience student Florence Roussotte works with her friend Eric Slater to organize a marrow donor registry drive, which will take place on Friday. She is organizing the drive in large part for her father, the man in the photo behind her, who has leukemia. (Neil Bedi/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Congress members urge UC to continue funding Lick Observatory

Thirty-five members of Congress from California have signed a letter released to the public on Wednesday, urging the University of California to keep funding the Lick Observatory. Read more...

Photo: Several members of Congress joined a number of people calling for the University of California to continue funding to the University’s oldest observatory, which is set to lose all UC funds by 2018. Courtesy of Elinor Gates


Ally Week events encourage support for LGBTQ community

Aaron Kinsfather kept track of the order of every person he came out to. The 17th person – his older sister – became his pillar of support during his turbulent high school years. Read more...

Photo: Aaron Kinsfather, a first-year psychology student, was a student facilitator for Wednesday night’s Q&A Misconceptions Panel for Ally Week, which aims to educate students on how to support members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin)



Gubernatorial candidate Kashkari talks education reform

A Republican gubernatorial candidate proposed a plan Tuesday to create programs that would provide free tuition to science, technology, engineering or mathematics students, add significantly more online courses to public universities and allow students from other higher education systems to take courses from the University of California and the California State University.Neel Kashkari, a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Read more...

Photo: Neel Kashkari, a Republican running for governor, released a plan he would implement if elected to expand online courses, offer free tuition for STEM students in exchange for a portion of their future income and other measures that would affect the University of California. Courtesy of Jessica Ng