UCLA held Minority Report, a theatrical performance that aimed to educate students about diversity and race relations, on Tuesday. The department of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs held the event from 5 p.m. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs held a theatrical performance at the Broad Art Center Tuesday to raise social awareness on racism and other issues of diversity. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 1 at 7:15 p.m. UCLA officials announced a new location for the Kinross Recreation Center on Tuesday. UCLA will build the new fitness center in the northwest end of Parking Lot 36, by Veteran Avenue and Kinross Avenue, said Michael Deluca, assistant vice chancellor of campus life, and Wendy Windsor, director of UCLA Recreation, in an email to graduate students. Read more...
Photo: UCLA officials announced the new site for the Kinross Recreation Center, which was previously housed in the Kinross Building. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Students can now apply to a new nine-month-long social science’s master’s degree program. The first Master of Social Sciences Program, or MaSS, will begin fall 2017 and end in June 2018, according to an email announcement sent by UCLA Social Sciences interim dean Laura Gómez. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA social sciences department started a new multidisciplinary research program for students to enable them to get a social sciences master’s degree. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Blake Allmendinger would go up to his room when he was a child and escape to the world of mystery novels every time his parents began to fight. Read more...
Photo: English professor Blake Allmendinger said literature helped him cope with his struggles growing up, when he had to deal with a turbulent family life. Here, he is photographed in his office. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA engineering researchers developed a low-cost mobile imaging system that detects and quantifies air pollution. The Ozcan Research Group designed C-Air, a particle detector capable of sizing pollutants in a sample of air. Read more...
Photo: Yichen Wu is a doctoral student in electrical engineering and the primary researcher on the C-Air Project, a particle detector that calculates the amount of pollution in air. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA vice provost stepped down Monday after serving for about five years. Kathryn Atchison, vice provost of new collaborative initiatives, plans to return to the faculty and focus on health education, according to an announcement from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh last week. Read more...
Students will soon have more plant-based food options at a new bar in De Neve dining hall. De Neve dining hall is opening a flexitarian bar in January to encourage healthy, sustainable eating, said UCLA Dining Services officials in a statement. Read more...
Photo: De Neve dining hall will feature a new flexitarian bar with vegetable-centered food options in January. UCLA Dining Services initiated this move to encourage healthy, sustainable eating. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
