The second time his family traveled to the United States from Iran, they never went home. Growing up in the United States, Hirbod Rahimi, a fourth-year neuroscience and biology student, often felt left out living in a neighborhood where he thought his culture was never acknowledged. Read more...
Photo: The Iranian Student Group at UCLA kicked off its 12th annual culture show on Thursday in an effort to educate about Iranian culture. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
A mini robot car may be zipping past you Wednesday, while walking through the Court of Sciences on the way to class. Racing robot cars will be part of this year’s Engineers’ Week, or E-Week. Read more...
Graduate students who die before graduating can now formally obtain degrees from UCLA through a new policy that allows families, colleagues or faculty members to submit requests for their degrees. Read more...
A group of students dedicated to fostering collaboration among UCLA entrepreneurship organizations plans to hold a launch party Friday for their website – a project that took about a year to develop. Read more...
The original caption accompanying this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. As their plane angled down to start its descent into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, three UCLA students saw the rusted tin roofs and dirt streets of a city that was still struggling to recover from the 7.0 earthquake that struck the island four years ago. Read more...
Photo: Lyolya Hovhannisyan, a fourth-year neuroscience student, travelled to the town of Petit-Goâve in Haiti with two other UCLA students to help improve diabetes education and treatment. The students said they could still see effects of the earthquake that struck the country four years ago. Courtesy of Mary Cutler
More than a hundred unionized teaching assistants and supporters went on strike at UCLA Thursday to protest alleged unfair labor practices they say University of California management has committed. Read more...
Photo: Political science graduate student Jason Ball participates in the Thursday strike. (Christopher Hoo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Several UCLA teaching assistants and other graduate student employees will cancel discussion sections and office hours Thursday as part of a one-day strike against the University of California. Read more...
