Students can now opt in for gender-inclusive housing, a housing option for students to room with people who do not share the same gender, directly in the housing application. Read more...
Photo: Students can now opt in for gender-inclusive housing options on the university housing application without having to submit an additional form. This change comes after months of discussion between housing administrators and student government officials. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)
A new UCLA institute will investigate how new technologies impact society and public policy. The UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering will work together in the new UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy to determine how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, require changes in law and propose solutions to issues stemming from their usage. Read more...
Photo: Richard Re (left), a law professor, and John Villasenor (right), an electrical engineering professor, will be the co-directors of the recently established UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy. The institute will be an intercampus collaboration between the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering. (Courtesy of UCLA School of Law and Matthew Chin/UCLA)
Los Angeles Metro aims to update its bus network and service for the first time in decades by December. The bus system, which carries 70% of all Metro transit riders in LA, was last updated 25 years ago. Read more...
Photo: Metro is planning to update its bus network and service by December and will continue to seek out community feedback to inform its changes. This will be the first time in 25 years that Metro has updated its network. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...
University of California service workers reached a tentative agreement with the University after over two years of negotiations. Service workers and university administrators in American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, an employee union that represents over 25,000 service and patient care employees in the UC, reached the tentative four-year agreement late Tuesday night. Read more...
Photo: Service workers in American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 reached a tentative agreement with the University of California late Tuesday night. The union, which still has yet to ratify the agreement, went on strike six times in the last two years. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Bruin Dine, a program that offers free food at De Neve Residential Restaurant on Thursday nights, launched last week for winter quarter. The student-run program, which aims to reduce food waste and address food insecurity on campus, serves unconsumed food from dining halls to students for free on Thursdays from 9 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Students can now get free food every Thursday until week 10 in the private dining room in De Neve with the Bruin Dine program. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Researchers from UCLA and other universities have developed a stable and environmentally friendly method to produce synthesis gas. Synthesis gas, or “syngas” for short, is an industrial material made of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas. Read more...
Photo: (Sameera Pant/Daily Bruin)
