This post was updated May 23 at 12:35 a.m. A new website aims to connect underclassmen who want to declare or switch their majors with upperclassmen mentors. Read more...
Photo: DevX, a club that creates apps and online products geared toward UCLA students, held a soft launch earlier this month for BQuest, a website that links students considering different majors with upperclassmen ambassadors from similar fields of study. (Photo courtesy of Linea Anderson)
Workers throughout the University of California represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 went on strike from May 7 to 9. Read more...
Haya Kaliounji and her family were forced to flee their hometown in 2012 after a civil war broke out in Syria. After staying in Lebanon for six months, her family moved to the United States on her mother’s work visa in search of a new life in Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: Haya Kaliounji, a third-year physiological sciences student, created the nonprofit Rise Again to support people living in Syria. Her project helps create prosthetic limbs to help her old community in Aleppo. (Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin)
A new student-run organization aims to provide professional mentorship for students. Bruin Bridges, which launched in April and held its first meeting Friday, connects students to leaders in various industries who will advise and mentor them. Read more...
Photo: Mindy Lin, Carolina Rubini, Giulia Sperandio and Jeremiah Barnett are board members of Bruin Bridges, a new student organization that connects students to leaders in various industries who will advise and mentor them. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
Maria Mena, a janitor at Santa Monica College, brought her son to UCLA on Saturday to motivate him to pursue higher education. “A lot of kids in our community aren’t motivated to go to college because they don’t think it’s for them, so they don’t go,” she said. Read more...
Photo: Families of garment, janitorial and domestic workers involved in UCLA Labor Center’s Parent Worker Project came to UCLA on Saturday to spend a day on campus and learn more about how they can access higher education. (courtesy of Wil Prada)
UCLA faculty remember Charles Goodwin for making strides in researchers’ understanding of human speech. Goodwin, a distinguished professor emeritus in the department of applied linguistics, died on March 31 due to cancer. Read more...
Photo: Charles Goodwin, a professor emeritus in the department of applied linguistics, died on March 31 due to cancer. He was 74. (Courtesy of UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture)
Olga Kagan dedicated the last two decades of her life to a community that is often overlooked in language instruction. She helped pioneer heritage language learning designed specifically for children of immigrants who speak a language other than English at home but cannot read or write it very well. Read more...
Photo: Olga Kagan was a professor and undergraduate advisor in the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian languages and cultures. (Courtesy of Diane Hofland)
