In a recording sent to a UCLA political science students’ GroupMe, a person claiming to be a candidate for the Undergraduate Students Association Council suggested bulldozing the Palestine solidarity encampment and shooting its participants. Read more...
Photo: Kerckhoff Hall, where the Undergraduate Students Association Council offices are hosted, is pictured.(Daily Bruin file photo)
Community members highlighted issues they want to see addressed by the next LAPD police chief during a webinar Tuesday. The webinar – co-hosted by District 5 Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky and the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday evening – allowed participants to share complaints surrounding officers, including slow response times. Read more...
Photo: Dominic Choi, who is the interim chief of LAPD, is pictured alongside Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Katy Yaroslavsky and the LA Board of Police Commissioners held a webinar Tuesday to hear community input on characteristics they want the new chief to hold. (Courtesy of the Office of Mayor Bass)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council held its first meeting of May virtually Tuesday. USAC is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Read more...
The UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent is bridging neuroscience and policy with a new online tool. The STEPS for Youth tool – which stands for Science to Enhance Policy Success for Youth – seeks to explain the science of adolescence in an accessible manner for policymakers and practitioners, said Andrew Fuligni, the center’s co-executive director. Read more...
Photo: The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is pictured. The Center for the Developing Adolescent, which is part of the institute, is launching a new online tool to help inform policymakers about adolescent-related science. (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin)
The Los Angeles Superior Court awarded $14 million to a former UCLA oncologist Thursday following an eight-year battle over her gender discrimination lawsuit. Dr. Lauren Pinter-Brown, a former hematologic oncologist at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, sued the UC Board of Regents in 2016, alleging that she was discriminated against by her male colleagues and that she was receiving, on average, $200,000 less than them annually. Read more...
Photo: The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is pictured. Dr. Lauren Pinter-Brown, a former UCLA hematologic oncologist, was awarded $14 million Thursday in a gender discrimination lawsuit retrial. The case was originally overturned, but the retrial sided with Pinter-Brown for a second time. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Amid the hustle and bustle of UCLA’s campus, teaching assistant James Johnson wakes up at 5:30 a.m. in preparation for the day ahead of him. Like many other TAs, Johnson, a graduate student in the philosophy department, spends his mornings navigating the course materials for his sections, thinking about how to supplement the week’s lectures. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is Royce Hall in Dickson Plaza. Teaching assistants at UCLA teach more than 33,000 undergraduate students, including in buildings around the plaza. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The UCLA Academic Senate will continue consideration of a vote to censure or a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Gene Block into its next meeting May 16 amid a lack of consensus from voting faculty. The former, current and incoming chairs of the UCLA Academic Senate – Jessica Cattelino, Andrea Kasko and Kathy Bawn, respectively – released a statement Tuesday announcing the emergency two-hour teleconference senate legislative assembly meeting. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block is pictured. The UCLA Academic Senate adjourned its Friday emergency meeting with no official action in support of or against the vote of no confidence in Block, who is the first UC chancellor to potentially face retribution from their campus Academic Senate for their administration’s handling of recent pro-Palestine protests. (Jeremy Chen/Photo editor)
