The UCLA Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Virginia Steel will retire at the end of 2023, the university announced Thursday. Steel, who has been the university librarian since 2013, leads nearly all the campus libraries. Read more...
Photo: Powell Library is pictured. The UCLA librarian Virginia Steel will retire at the end of 2023, with the search for her successor set to begin in the spring. (Daily Bruin file photo)
On Feb. 28, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in favor of considering an expansion of the body’s membership. The motion came as a recommendation made by District 2 Supervisor Holly J. Read more...
UCLA’s chapter of Planned Parenthood is partnering with the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center to provide a week of free sexually transmitted infections testing for students. Read more...
Photo: The Ashe Patient Portal is pictured. UCLA’s Planned Parenthood chapter partnered with the Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center to offer a week of free sexually transmitted disease testing for students. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has provided funding for a new legal fellowship that prioritizes UCLA School of Law graduates. San Manuel awarded the $695,000 grant to the California Tribal Families Coalition – a nonprofit made up of California tribes with the mission to promote tribal children and families’ welfare – for the fellowship offered to recent law school graduates, said Kimberly Cluff, the CTFC legal director. Read more...
Photo: The School of Law is pictured. The California Tribal Families Coalition is funding a fellowship for law graduates with a grant from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A ripple effect of university labor actions has followed the UC academic worker strikes, exposing long-standing issues with employment conditions in higher education. Graduate students at Temple University, a public university in Philadelphia, started a six-week long strike in January, calling for higher wages, health care benefits and better working conditions. Read more...
Photo: Academic student workers picket during the United Auto Workers strike. Other strikes have gone on at other schools across the nation, as deficiencies in the treatment of academic workers come to light. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
Sources: UCPD. Graphic reporting by Matthew Royer, city and crime editor. Interactive by Lindsey Parungo, Data editor. UCPD recorded 685 unique entries in its March daily crime log. Read more...
This post was updated April 4 at 10:58 p.m. UCLA researchers have developed the first wearable device to record the activity of individual neurons in a person’s brain while they move freely. Read more...
Photo: The Neuro-stack sits in a person’s hand. UCLA researchers have created a device that can record single-neuron activity during movement for research purposes. (Courtesy of Dejan Markovic)
