Thursday, July 23

Students take third in competition with app designed to help first responders

Four UCLA students won $25,000 for creating a mobile application designed to assist emergency responders during natural disasters. The application, Rove, was the second runner-up for the Call for Code 2019 Global Challenge, an annual international competition that calls on developers to build applications for humanitarian causes. Read more...

Photo: Second-year students Daniel Ciao, Max Wu, Bryan Chiang and Lucas Xia won $25,000 for creating a mobile application designed to assist emergency responders. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)


City Council authorizes study considering $30 per hour wage for ride-hail drivers

This post was updated Oct. 23 at 12:44 p.m. The Los Angeles City Council may impose a minimum wage as high as $30 per hour for Uber and Lyft drivers. Read more...

Photo: Uber and Lyft drivers may be compensated $30 per hour if a new minimum wage ordinance is passed. The Los Angles City Council approved an action Tuesday to commission a study with the goal of setting a minimum wage for ride-hailing drivers. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Annual race held at UCLA raises over $400K for pancreatic cancer research

About 2,000 participants ran or walked five kilometers Sunday to raise awareness and funds for pancreatic cancer. Runners, volunteers and families filled Wilson Plaza on Sunday morning at the 22nd Annual LA Cancer Challenge. Read more...

Photo: About 2,000 runners and walkers gathered in Wilson Plaza to participate in the 22nd Annual LA Cancer Challenge. The event’s goal was to raise funding and awareness for pancreatic cancer, and benefitted the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)


Postelection survey headed by UCLA professors receives $1 million grant

A UCLA-led group of researchers received a $1 million grant to run and expand a survey studying racial and ethnic trends in politics that will follow the 2020 election. Read more...

Photo: Lorrie Frasure-Yokley (left), a professor of political science and African American studies at UCLA, and Matt Barreto (right), a professor of political science and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, are leading a nationwide postelection survey of both voters and nonvoters called the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)


Event aims to increase ‘cliteracy,’ open conversation about female sexuality

This post was updated Oct. 20 at 10:55 p.m. Sexual pleasure and accurate sexual information are essential for healthy relationships, a psychology professor said at a campus event Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Female sexuality activist and psychology professor Laurie Mintz (left) and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” actress Rachel Bloom (right) answered questions from the audience about the importance of the pleasure of sex for women at a campus event Thursday. (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Study finds suppressing particular mutation could limit the effects of Huntington’s

A UCLA study has potentially identified a method to halt the progression of Huntington’s disease and alleviate some of the damage it causes, according to a university press release. Read more...

Photo: Baljit S. Khakh, a professor of physiology and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, led a study which identified a method that could halt the progression of Huntington’s disease and alleviate some of the damage it causes. (Daily Bruin file photo)


LA intersection renamed to honor LGBTQ+, black-rights activist Jewel Thais-Williams

Jewel Thais-Williams’ Catch One disco nightclub has served as a safe space for black and queer communities in Los Angeles for 40 years. Thais-Williams, a UCLA alumna, cultivated Catch One until 2015 after purchasing the dance bar in 1973. Read more...

Photo: Jewel Thais-Williams owned Catch One, a disco on Pico Boulevard, from 1973 to 2015. The disco appealed to the black and queer communities in Los Angeles. The city council president named the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Norton Avenue after her Oct. 5. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)