This post was updated Feb. 23 at 11:08 p.m. Wearing a purple lei headdress and gold bangles, Kiara Elizabeth Santos welcomed students to an event as Native American and Pasifika music echoed across the De Neve Plaza Room. Read more...
Photo: Performers bow and hold flowers at the “When 2 Worlds Collide” event held Feb. 12 by the American Indian and Pacific Islander Living Learning Community to celebrate Native and Pasifika cultures. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
When the Palisades fire broke out Jan. 7, resident assistants in university housing considered their next steps. Syed Tamim Ahmad, the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s international student representative and an RA for Rieber Vista, said there was confusion among RAs about whether they could leave campus. Read more...
Photo: Dorms on the Hill are pictured. Residential assistants communicated with their students and navigated students leaving campus after the onset of the Los Angeles County wildfires. (Ruby Galbraith/Daily Bruin)
Donald Shoup, a distinguished professor emeritus whose parking reform ideas inspired generations of students and urban planners, died Feb. 6. He was 86. Shoup, who taught in the urban planning department at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, researched the hidden costs of free parking in cities and spent his career advocating to remove mandatory off-street parking requirements. Read more...
Photo: Donald Shoup stands at a microphone. The renowned urban planning professor of 41 years and scholar on parking died Feb. 6. He was 86 years old. (Courtesy of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs)
The Trump administration announced the dismantling of one of the world’s largest international development aid agencies. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order hours after his inauguration that froze nearly all foreign aid, Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, announced the administration’s intention of shutting down the United States Agency for International Development. Read more...
Photo: The White House is pictured. The Trump administration announced it would dismantle the United States Agency for International Development. (Courtesy of Matt H. Wade/Wikimedia Commons)
A once well-established chemistry law now has an asterisk attached after a challenge from UCLA researchers. Neil Garg, a distinguished professor in the chemistry and biochemistry department, said molecules known as anti-Bredt olefins – which violate Bredt’s rule, a rule that has stood for a hundred years – cannot have double bonds in specific positions under certain conditions. Read more...
Photo: (Valerie Liman/Daily Bruin)
Experts said higher education changes proposed by the Trump administration could undermine the strength of the American university system. President Donald Trump has promised to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in schools and threatened to eliminate the Department of Education itself. Read more...
Photo: A Department of Education building is pictured. Experts said higher education changes proposed by the Trump administration could undermine the strength of the American university system. (Courtesy of G. Edward Johnson/Wikimedia Commons)
This post was updated March 4 at 5:01 p.m. BruinDining, a student-developed app that helped students navigate UCLA’s dining options, was initially taken down around Jan. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is the BruinDining app icon featured on the App Store. The app’s owner, third-year computer science and engineering student Marius Genton, decided to shut down the app after UCLA’s branding team claimed multiple aspects of the app were noncompliant with university policies. (Courtesy of Marius Genton)
