This post was updated on Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. Students looking for a significant other on campus have a new website to help them find one. Read more...
Photo: A group of UCLA students created an online dating site that sets users up on blind dates. (Courtesy of Dmitri Brereton)
UCLA’s new Title IX coordinator has been working to clear up misconceptions about the Title IX Office since his appointment in September. Mohammed Cato, who previously served as the deputy Title IX coordinator at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, began his term as Title IX coordinator at UCLA on Sept. Read more...
Photo: The new UCLA Title IX coordinator, Mohammed Cato, has been working to overcome misconceptions surrounding the Title IX Office since his appointment in September. (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin)
Some parents of students at the UCLA Lab School said they are frustrated over the UCLA administration’s decision to put the school’s principal on indefinite leave without prior notice. Read more...
Photo: Parents of students at the UCLA Lab School said they are frustrated that the UCLA administration put Norma Silva, the schools principal, on leave without prior notice. UCLA later announced that Silva will remain in the school and handle certain administrative duties until June. (Andrew Arifin/Daily Bruin)
Friends remember Brittany Oliva for her selfless attitude and desire to become a math teacher. Oliva, who graduated from UCLA in 2015, died Dec. 11 in a motorcycle accident in Anaheim. Read more...
Photo: Brittany Oliva (left), a UCLA alumna who graduated in 2015, was 26 years old when she died in a motorcycle accident on December 11. (Courtesy of Ann Yufa)
A UCLA law professor received an award from the Middle East Studies Association for her advocacy work earlier this month. Asli Bâli received the 2017 Middle East Studies Association Presidential Award for her work challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban earlier this year on individuals from several Muslim-majority countries. Read more...
Photo: Asli Bâli received the award for advocating against President Donald Trump’s travel ban earlier this year. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A UCLA alumnus created a social media app to help people efficiently make social plans with friends. Arya Ghavami, who graduated from UCLA in 2010, created FOCUS, an iOS app set to launch in early December. Read more...
Photo: Arya Ghavami, a UCLA alumnus who graduated in 2010, created an iOS app called FOCUS to help users make social plans together. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin)
A center that will provide research-based support to improve school systems in Los Angeles and across the country launched at UCLA last week. The UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools hosted a community forum on public education for local high schoolers Nov. Read more...
