Friday, December 19

Student organizations collaborate to create 3D-printed PPE for hospitals

Two UCLA-based student organizations are working together to 3D print personal protective equipment, or PPE, for local hospitals across California, New York and Rhode Island. The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused shortages of PPE for health care professionals across the nation, leaving medical workers without the necessary protection or having to reuse PPE. Read more...

Photo: Two UCLA student organizations are working to design and 3D print personal protective equipment in light of shortages arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy of Kyle Ho)


Former Daily Bruin editor awarded Pulitzer Prize for journalism

This post was updated May 5 at 12:55 a.m. A UCLA alumnus and former Daily Bruin editor won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting on Monday. Read more...

Photo: Robert Faturechi, a UCLA alumnus and Daily Bruin reporter, won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting on Monday. Faturechi was the editor for Enterprise, the Bruin’s long-term investigative section, from 2007 to 2008. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC workers continue COLA movement virtually on International Workers’ Day

University of California graduate and union workers held strikes and panels Friday for International Workers’ Day to demand increased wages to match rising living costs. Graduate students across the UC held a general strike to demand a cost of living adjustment to their wages. Read more...

Photo: University of California graduate students have been demanding a cost of living adjustment since December, when graduate students at UC Santa Cruz went on strike and withheld fall quarter grades. Graduate students at other campuses, including UCLA, have since held rallies and strikes to demand COLA. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)


USAC committees offer reliefs funds to assist students affected by COVID-19

The Undergraduate Students Association Council launched a new COVID-19 Relief Fund to provide emergency grants to undergraduate students who have been economically impacted by the novel coronavirus. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council established relief funds for students impacted by the novel coronavirus. Applications are due in early May. (Daily Bruin file photo)


USAC candidates discuss referendums, use of student fees in online debate

This post was updated May 3 at 3:35 p.m. Candidates for the 2020-2021 Undergraduate Students Association Council clashed over issues, such as tuition refunds, resources for students amid the COVID-19 pandemic and which special projects to fund, during the annual candidates debate Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Five candidates for Undergraduate Students Association Council president debate over feasibility of platforms, student fees and other campus issues at the 2020 USAC debate.


Student clubs face canceled events, engagement challenges posed by virtual setting

Emily Luong, president of the Undergraduate Communication Association, felt she was dragged into a hole of anxiety and panic upon discovering spring quarter would be moved to online. Read more...

Photo: As UCLA transitioned to online forums, clubs and student organizations also had to change their engagement methods, transition traditions and end of the year projects. (Daily Bruin file photo)


School of Law launches project to track data on incarceration facilities, COVID-19

A UCLA School of Law project is helping judges and advocates respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus in prisons. Sharon Dolovich, a UCLA School of Law professor and Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program, founded the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease prison populations during the pandemic. Read more...

Photo: Researchers at the UCLA School of Law started a data project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease populations in those facilities. The project has since grown and received positive feedback from judges and advocates using the data for related cases. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)



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