The Society of Women Engineers at UCLA hosted a donation drive for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires Thursday. Members of the club created donation kits at the event for children affected by fires across LA County, which have burned over 47,000 acres since Jan. Read more...
Photo: Some of the event attendees at the Society of Women Engineers at UCLA donation drive work with activities that represent scientific experiments. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 11:02 p.m. UCLA Housing’s Transact Mobile app – which students on the Hill use to order meals – was unavailable Monday morning and came back online around 2:38 p.m. Read more...
Photo: A line outside the Epicuria at Ackerman dining hall is pictured. Students wanting to eat at the dining hall must order in person after UCLA’s mobile ordering app became unavailable Monday morning. (Nicolas Greamo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Student organizations are volunteering to support the UCLA community after fires devastated Los Angeles County. Fires across LA – which began Jan. 7 – have burned nearly 57,000 acres of land and destroyed over 16,000 structures, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, website. Read more...
Photo: A poster with information about what to pack in the case of an evacuation due to a fire is pictured. UCLA student organizations held donation drives and events to help victims of the Los Angeles County wildfires. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
For UCLA’s fourth-year students, transitions to Zoom classes are nothing new. The university switched to remote instruction less than a week into winter quarter after fires broke out in Los Angeles County, one of which – the Palisades fire – prompted an evacuation warning bordering the campus. Read more...
Photo: The homepage of the video meeting platform Zoom is pictured. Fourth-year students have experienced multiple interruptions to their education including the COVID-19 pandemic and Los Angeles County wildfires resulting in transitions to remote instruction. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Chon Noriega is set to become the interim dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Noriega, the former director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, will hold the position from Feb. Read more...
Photo: School of Theater, Film and Television Professor Chon Noriega speaks. Noriega will be the school’s interim dean beginning Feb. 1. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
This post was updated Jan. 26 at 11:15 p.m. Growing up with his father as a member of a gang led to Frank Godinez’s first research project. Read more...
Photo: Frank Godinez stands in front of Haines Hall, home to UCLA’s sociology department. The fourth-year political science and sociology student was awarded the Beinecke Scholarship – a $35,000 award to pursue graduate studies. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)
Antonio Ríos-Bustamante held several titles throughout his life – dad, historian, activist and husband. At UCLA, he was known as a “walking dictionary.” Ríos-Bustamante, a pioneer of the field of Chicana/o studies, died April 19 at 75 years old. Read more...
Photo: Antonio Ríos-Bustamante is pictured holding a book. The historian and Chicano studies pioneer died April 19 at 75 years old. (Courtesy of William Estrada)
