This post was updated June 3 at 9:28 a.m. A student robotics team has been working since fall quarter on a robot that merges two of the group’s passions: interdisciplinary engineering and the video game The Legend of Zelda. Read more...
Photo: X1 Robotics was founded in 2015 to provide students hands-on experience with robotic engineering. The organization votes on a project at the beginning of the year to complete by the end of spring quarter. (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin staff)
A UCLA professor was named the new dean of the Anderson School of Management, according to a university press release Friday. Antonio Bernardo, a finance professor who has taught at UCLA for 25 years, will take over the position from the current interim dean Al Osborne on July 1. Read more...
Photo: Antonio Bernardo, a finance professor who has taught at UCLA for 25 years, was named the new dean of the Anderson School of Management, according to a university press release Friday. He will take over the position from the current interim dean Al Osborne on July 1. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated 2:04 p.m. on May 31. An individual at UCLA was diagnosed with whooping cough, prompting county health officials to advise several people on campus to get vaccinations. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health advised several people who may have been exposed to the disease in Murphy Hall to get vaccinated after a case of whooping cough was confirmed at UCLA. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Southeast Asian student groups at UCLA and across the nation called attention to rising deportation rates of Southeast Asian Americans under President Donald Trump’s administration. The Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA, several of its member organizations and Southeast Asian student groups nationwide held a “week of action” last week to raise awareness about the issue. Read more...
Photo: The Asian Pacific Coalition and other Southeast Asian groups in universities across the country advocated last week against deportations of members of the Southeast Asian American community. The week ended with a forum in which speakers discussed how to respond to deportation orders. (Courtesy of Jason Vu)
This post was updated August 3 at 10:37 a.m. Mason MacDougall presented a model that uses data science to help astronomers find planets with the same living conditions as on Earth by monitoring nearby stars. Read more...
Photo: DataRes at UCLA, the first student organization on campus dedicated to the study and practice of data science, held its first showcase Wednesday. Club members presented data projects ranging from comparisons of Los Angeles crime statistics by neighborhood to models tracking Earthlike planets around other stars. (Emily Ng/Daily Bruin)
Rev. James Lawson said he thinks more nonviolent activism is necessary to eliminate segregation, hatred, violence and fear in the United States. Lawson was one of the speakers at a “teach-in” organized by students in the course Labor and Workplace Studies M173: “Nonviolence and Social Movements,” which is taught by Lawson, a UCLA lecturer and civil rights activist who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. Read more...
Photo: Rev. James Lawson, acclaimed civil rights activist and UCLA lecturer, gave an opening speech during a teach-in Thursday. The event, which featured student presentations and a panel of activists, was organized by students in Lawson’s class. (Emily Ng/Daily Bruin)
UCLA Dining will renovate two dining halls this summer. Covel Commons Residential Restaurant and De Neve Grab ‘n’ Go will undergo renovations this summer and reopen fall quarter of 2019. Read more...
Photo: Covel Dining Hall and De Neve Grab ‘n’ Go will be renovated over the summer. Covel will have added guest space and an expanded kitchen, and De Neve Grab ‘n’ Go will have new menu items. (Daily Bruin file photo)
