UCLA appointed public health professor Vickie Mays to a new position to advise the Chancellor on issues affecting the Black community. Chancellor Gene Block announced Monday that Mays, a professor in the School of Public Health, will serve as the special advisor to the chancellor on Black life. Read more...
Photo: Vickie Mays, a public health professor, will serve as advisor to the chancellor on issues related to the Black community at UCLA, effective immediately.(Daily Bruin file photo)
Melody Satele is normally the sole Pacific Islander student in her classes. Satele tries her best to include the perspective of her community in discussions whenever she is the lone Pacific Islander representative — especially in conversations about social justice, which she said often ignore Pacific Islander issues. Read more...
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The undergraduate student government is recruiting campus organizations to join a board to advise the student government’s policies. The Congressional Advisory Board, which was formed over the summer, is made up of student groups from around campus, such as the Afrikan Student Union, Samahang Pilipino and the Transfer Leadership Coalition. Read more...
Photo: The Congressional Advisory Board is a body of student organizations that will advise the Undergraduate Students Association Council on its policies.
A visiting UCLA researcher was charged with destroying evidence to obstruct an FBI investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Guan Lei, a visiting researcher from China who studied mathematics, allegedly destroyed a computer hard drive while he was under an FBI investigation, according to an affidavit written by FBI special agent Timothy Hurt, who investigated Lei beginning in July. Read more...
Photo: A visiting UCLA researcher was charged with destroying evidence, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
Budget cuts from the university have forced several campus programs that help marginalized communities at UCLA to restructure or dissolve after. Since February, UCLA has cut funding to a program that supports student activists and a program that provides tutoring to front-line workers. Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 23 at 2:30 p.m. A water main break that flooded multiple structures on campus Sunday morning has been contained, UCLA officials said. Read more...
Photo: A water main burst on Sunset Boulevard, flooding several UCLA structures, including parking lots 4 and 7 and the Intramural Field. The pipe has since been shut off and the water has been contained, a UCLA official said. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
UCLA will transition to all remote instruction except for essential in-person classes for the fall and reduce the number of students permitted in on-campus housing. The decision follows recent directives from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health that restricted campus activities to minimum operations and limited on-campus housing eligibility to students with no alternative options, said Emily Carter, the executive vice chancellor and provost in an emailed statement to students. Read more...
Photo: UCLA announced Friday all courses – except for essential in-person classes – will be taught remotely for fall quarter and a decrease in the number of students allowed in on-campus housing. (Daily Bruin file photo)
