A Los Angeles nonprofit awarded the UCLA Grand Challenges program $100,000 for its environmental improvement initiative on Tuesday. LA2050, an initiative aimed at improving the city’s educational, environmental, health and safety standards, gave 10 Los Angeles-based projects $100,000 each this week for their work to improve the city. Read more...
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October 2, 2:09 am
UCLA Grand Challenges program awarded $100,000 grant
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October 2, 2:07 am
Bruin Café reopens Thursday with renovations and updated menus
Students will be able to swipe for several new sandwiches when Bruin Café opens Thursday morning. The popular quick service restaurant on the Hill will have updated menus, including sandwiches such as honey mustard chicken, pastrami and eggplant and hummus. Read more...
Photo: Bruin Café will open Thursday with new menus and dishes. (Agnijita Kumar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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October 2, 2:05 am
Green Initiative Fund referendum added to special election ballot
The undergraduate student government added a referendum on Sept. 23 to its fall special election ballot to indefinitely extend mandatory students fees for the Green Initiative Fund. Read more...
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October 2, 2:01 am
Students recognize veterans’ services through Volunteer Day
UCLA students crowded into hallways with chipping taupe paint and a vegetable garden overrun with leaves and branches at a transitional veteran center Monday. In three separate groups, about 100 UCLA students raked and painted hallways on two floors of a building in the Veterans Succeeding in the 21st Century center, as part of the sixth annual UCLA Volunteer Day. Read more...
Photo: Ali Aziz, a first-year physiological sciences student, paints the hallways of a veteran center as part of UCLA Volunteer Day (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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September 29, 12:51 pm
Meeting to collect student input on diversity vice chancellor position
Students who want to weigh in on the appointment of a new diversity-related vice chancellor can meet with the position’s search committee on campus next week, officials announced in an email to students Monday. Read more...
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September 28, 12:00 am
UCLA lecturer’s work on prison program allows inmates exposure to arts
They told him they didn’t want a bureaucrat, so Tom Skelly took the job at Chino prison. At the state institution, sprawled across 2,500 acres of land in San Bernardino County, Skelly’s job as the prison’s new arts facilitator started simply. Read more...
Photo: Tom Skelly, an arts lecturer at UCLA, spray paints a picture frame in his yard. He often works on his art from a studio at home. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)
