This post was updated Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. UCLA researchers and students are finding novel ways to battle the stigma of autism and diagnose the disorder. Read more...
Photo: Best Buddies at UCLA is a student organization on campus that aims to end the stigma against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (Courtesy of Shammir Allen Khan)
Volunteers and residents of a new shelter for homeless students spent their first night getting to know each other, having dinner and watching TV. Bruin Shelter, one of the country’s first student-run homeless shelters for students, officially opened its doors last week. Read more...
Photo: Bruin Shelter will house nine UCLA and Santa Monica College students ages 18 to 24 for six months. Residents can receive temporary housing, food, career counseling and resources to help them find permanent housing. (Courtesy of Luke Shaw)
On the ground floor of UCLA’s Boyer Hall, a huge gray machine shoots invisible X-rays at streams of bacterial crystals, each thinner than the width of a human hair. Read more...
Photo: UCLA scientists are researching a naturally occurring mosquito toxin that may be engineered in the future to kill the mosquito species that transmits dengue fever and the Zika virus. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Poet Wanda Coleman’s papers will now be publicly available at the UCLA Library Special Collections. The Charles E. Young Research Library held a reception for the collection Thursday, featuring writers such as Tisa Bryant, Harryette Mullen and Austin Straus, Coleman’s husband. Read more...
Photo: An event was held at the Charles E. Young Research Library on Thursday to celebrate the life and works of the poet Wanda Coleman. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
Therapy dogs dressed in Halloween costumes visited patients at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA on Thursday. This event was organized by the UCLA People-Animal Connection, the hospital’s animal-assisted therapy program. Read more...
Photo: Finn, a white labrador, went around Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to visit young patients and spread some Halloween cheer, as part of UCLA People-Animal Connection, the hospital’s animal-assisted therapy program. (Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin)
UCLA students can anonymously share their darkest secrets online with the touch of a button. On the UCLA Secrets Facebook page, students submit posts about their beliefs, experiences with anxiety and even posts to find their crush on campus. Read more...
Photo: (Rachel Zhu/Daily Bruin)
Students dipped their hands into paint and pressed onto a white wooden board, creating an array of rainbow-colored handprints. The “Solidarity Wall,” aimed to draw attention to the UCLA Students for Haiti Solidarity, a club founded in 2015, and its efforts to help victims of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Students for Haiti Solidarity is raising money with a grassroots organization for those in Haiti affected by Hurricane Matthew. (Courtesy of SOPUDEP)
