Sunday, July 6

Graduate students can now take new course on digital records

Graduate students will be able to examine video evidence from body worn cameras in a new course this fall. The UCLA Department of Information Studies’ four-unit seminar, “Special Topics in Information Studies: Archival Practice in the Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance Technologies,” will review policies about audiovisual material and provide training for students pursuing careers in film management, said Jean-François Blanchette, an associate professor in the Department of Information Studies. Read more...

Photo: The four-unit seminar “Management of Digital Records” offered this fall will allow UCLA graduate students to examine video evidence from body worn cameras. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)


Film ‘Lo and Behold’ documents the internet’s beginning at UCLA

When Leonard Kleinrock’s student sent the first internet message from UCLA to Stanford, he said it felt more like a perfunctory job well done rather than a moment that would go down in history. Read more...

Photo: “Lo and Behold,” a documentary about the internet’s impact directed by Werner Herzog released Aug. 19, and features Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science professor. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)


Student demands equal pay for full-time and student workers

A Bruin Cafe student employee is demanding that UCLA pay students and full-time workers in UCLA dining services equal wages. Dana Carrera, a rising third-year sociology student, started a petition last Friday that calls for UCLA Dining Services to pay its student workers $16.32 an hour, which is the starting wage for full-time employees. Read more...

Photo: Dana Carrera, a rising third-year sociology student, started a petition demanding that UCLA pay students and full-time workers in UCLA Dining Services equal wages. (Catherine Liberty Feliciano/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UCLA corgi earns Instagram fame, begins modeling career

Anywhere he goes, Pavlov the corgi gets stopped on the streets by fans from as far away as Berkeley. “A girl from UC Berkeley saw him on the street and freaked out,” said Anthony Osuna, Pavlov’s owner. Read more...

Photo: Pavlov, the Instagram-famous corgi, rose to fame after UCLA alumni, Anthony Osuna and his girlfriend Elayne-Tram Nguyen, started an Instagram account featuring the corgi’s adventures at UCLA. (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)


UCLA medical centers rank fifth nationally according to new study

UCLA hospitals in Westwood and Santa Monica ranked fifth in the nation and first in California for best hospitals, according to rankings released Monday by U.S. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Medical Center, which includes hospitals in Westwood and Santa Monica, ranked fifth in the nation and first in the state in new rankings from the U.S. News and World Report. (Daily Bruin file photo)



UCLA brings children together at annual pediatric craniofacial picnic

For one day each year, kids with craniofacial anomalies spend time with each other and their families at UCLA’s Sunset Canyon Recreation Center lawn. At the annual UCLA Pediatric Craniofacial Program picnic, held Aug. Read more...

Photo: Children played at the UCLA Sunset Canyon Recreation Center during a picnic hosted by the UCLA Pediatric Craniofacial Program clinic, which helps treat cleft lips and palates. (Courtesy of Justine Lee)



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