A UCLA center received a $2 million donation that will help create a program to teach students about Taiwanese culture and history, UCLA Newsroom announced Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan donated $2 million to the UCLA Asia Pacific Center, which the center plans to use to create a new program called “Taiwan in the World” and support the Taiwan Studies Program. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA researchers can transfer mitochondria from one cell into another reprogrammable cell at a high rate using a newly developed technology called MitoPunch, according to UCLA research published in late December. Read more...
Photo: (Shruti Iyer/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A UCLA-led team of researchers found that married mothers who entered the workforce in early to mid-adulthood showed slower rates of memory decline later in life. Read more...
Photo: UCLA researchers found married mothers who entered the workforce from early to mid-adulthood had slower rates of memory decline. (Illustration by Dani Nalangan/Daily Bruin Contributor)
Amrik Johal spoke Punjabi growing up, but he never learned how to read or write in the language. “Many of us could speak Punjabi at home, but there’s very few who understand how to read and write,” said Johal, an education graduate student. Read more...
Photo: The University of California is offering Punjabi for the first time to all campuses through the UC cross-campus enrollment system. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated on Jan 10 at 4:58 p.m. At least three academic departments will not alter their degree plans to allow students to use pass/no pass courses to count toward certain degree requirements in the winter 2021 quarter, despite recommendations from the Academic Senate. Read more...
Photo: Student leaders asked the Academic Senate to pressure individual academic departments to implement pass/no pass grading accommodations. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated Dec. 16 at 3:16 p.m. to clarify statements from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter. Graduate student leaders are asking UCLA to include students on the search committee for a new dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Read more...
Photo: The search for a new dean at the School of Education and Information Studies lacks student input, graduate students said. (Finn Chitwood/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Dec. 3 at 7:19 p.m. Shannon Speed knows every American Indian and Alaska Native faculty member at UCLA. “It’s uncomfortable being a faculty member where you know every other faculty member of your demographic category,” said Speed, who is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a professor of gender studies and anthropology. Read more...
Photo: Native American faculty members Shannon Speed (top left), Kyle Mays (bottom left) and Mishuana Goeman (right) said UCLA should do more to increase the number of American Indian and Alaska native faculty members. In the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 13 American Indian and Alaska Native faculty members. (Photo illustration by Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor; Left to right: Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor, Harold King Ho Lee/Daily Bruin)
