This post was updated Sept. 11 at 9:18 a.m. Clementine Bordeaux, a member of the Rosebud Lakota tribe, said she was surprised when the Los Angeles City Council voted to replace Columbus Day with a holiday honoring indigenous peoples. Read more...
Photo: Native American students and activists said they think Los Angeles’ decision to create an Indigenous Peoples Day will bring more attention to Native American issues, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Jorge Herrera migrated to the United State at the age of 4, and he did not think he would go to college. “In my head I would (ask) myself what was the point of me going to college if I couldn’t put my degree to work,” he said. Read more...
Photo: UCLA faculty and staff joined hundreds of others in marching in support of undocumented individuals at a protest in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.(Sharon Zhen/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA students joined thousands of demonstrators gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it will end a program that deferred the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children. Read more...
Photo: Thousands of demonstrators marched in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday to protest President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (Michael Zshornack/Photo editor)
Kevin Njabo left Cameroon 15 years ago to pursue teaching and research in environmental science at UCLA. Njabo, an assistant adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, helped establish UCLA’s partnership with the Congo Basin Institute, in which he serves as the Africa director of the Center for Tropical Research. Read more...
Photo: Kevin Njabo, an assistant adjunt professor in environmental health sciences, helped establish a research institute in Cameroon jointly led by UCLA and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Sept. 1 at 5:35 p.m. A motorboat helped Michelle Chung’s family and dogs evacuate through the flooded streets of Houston. A neighbor driving the motorboat knocked on the door of her family’s flooded home, said Chung, a third-year cognitive science student. Read more...
Photo: Todd Breeding, a UCLA alumnus, said even though the first floor of his building flooded, the flooding did not do much damage to his apartment in Cypress, Texas, near Houston. (Courtesy of DeAnn Breeding)
About 40 students started high school as the inaugural ninth-grade class at the Horace Mann UCLA Community School last week. Horace Mann, which originally taught only sixth to eight grade, added the ninth-grade class as part of a February agreement between the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Los Angeles Unified School District to work together to revitalize Horace Mann Middle School in South Los Angeles, said Christine Shen, director of the UCLA Community Schools Initiative. Read more...
Photo: The Horace Mann UCLA Community School, which originally taught grades 6-8, added a ninth grade class from an agreement to revitalize its struggling reputation. (UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Science)
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has built a new undergraduate degree out of electrical engineering and computer science. The electrical engineering and computer science departments will together oversee a new degree called computer engineering beginning in the fall. Read more...
Photo: The computer science and electrical engineering departments will jointly offer the new Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering. (Derek Yan/Daily Bruin)
