UCLA announced a new goal Friday to have the city of Los Angeles use exclusively renewable sources of energy and local water resources by 2050. The project, called “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles,” is the first in a series of six “grand challenges” UCLA plans to announce over the next five years as part of the UCLA Grand Challenge Initiative. Read more...
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November 15, 3:56 pm
UCLA unveils sustainability goal as part of Grand Challenge Initiative
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November 15, 2:35 am
What’s happening at UCLA this weekend: Nov. 15-17
See what’s happening on your campus this weekend: Today UCLA football vs. Washington Rose Bowl Stadium 6 p.m. Saturday Students of Color Conference Students of Color Conference, an annual event held at a different University of California campus each year, is meant to serve as a space for all types of students. Read more...
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November 15, 2:34 am
Typhoon Haiyan breaks up Bruin families, UCLA groups join relief effort
Denise Panaligan turned on the television Saturday morning and saw images of Typhoon Haiyan for the first time. The third-year biology student from Leyte province in the Philippines, saw her hometown destroyed. Read more...
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November 15, 2:32 am
Bruins in diversity video to discuss initiatives with administrators
The group of students who created the viral "The Black Bruins [Spoken Word]" video to draw attention to the low enrollment of black male students at UCLA plans to meet with administrators to discuss diversity initiatives at the university. Read more...
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November 15, 2:31 am
UCLA professor integrates passion for music in research on communication
The sound of a bow pulling across a violin string fills students’ ears in a Royce Hall classroom. Making the sound with no other instruments but his voice, Greg Bryant, a communication studies professor at UCLA, explained to his class how people tend to categorize certain sounds. Read more...
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November 15, 2:30 am
Samuel Goetz, UCLA alumnus and Holocaust education advocate, dies at 85
Samuel Goetz, a UCLA alumnus and Holocaust survivor who paved the way for the creation of the first Holocaust studies chair at a public university in the United States, died on Oct. Read more...
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November 14, 3:50 pm
UCLA grad students stage sit-in following recent discrimination report
This post was updated at 7:06 p.m. About 25 graduate students staged a sit-in in a Moore Hall classroom Thursday afternoon, in response to a recent investigative report which stated that UCLA’s policies and procedures do not sufficiently address racial discrimination incidents among faculty members. Read more...
Photo: Students staged a sit-in Thursday in Moore Hall in response to a report released in October outlining how UCLA insufficiently treated incidents of racial discrimination.