Agenda The council approved contingency programming allocations with a 10-0-1 vote. Special Presentations A student presented to the council about Ally Week, which aims to educate UCLA community members about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and how to be an ally to them. Read more...
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April 23, 1:00 am
USAC Recap – April 22
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April 23, 12:56 am
Town hall to discuss diversity-related GE requirement
Undergraduate student government officials are hosting a town hall Wednesday to give faculty and students a chance to discuss the development of a new diversity-related general education requirement. Read more...
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April 23, 12:55 am
UCLA Center for World Health engages students globally
UCLA medical student Debbie Martins still remembers a 2-year-old girl she met last summer while working with children suffering from malaria and tuberculosis in a Mozambique clinic. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Center for World Health participated in a program in Mozambique. The center gives students an opportunity to do medical research abroad. Courtesy of Gregory Szekeres
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April 23, 12:53 am
Bruins offer activities for Homelessness Awareness Week
Homelessness Awareness Week, an event meant to educate students about homelessness in Los Angeles, is happening until Friday at various locations across campus and on the Hill. Read more...
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April 23, 12:22 am
Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel gives lecture at UCLA
Arieh Warshel, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, presented a free, public seminar on Monday called “Multiscale Modeling of Complex Biological Systems and Processes.” Warshal and two other scientists were presented the award last year for their work in “the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.” The event was part of UCLA’s physical chemistry seminar series and was sponsored by the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and by the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. Read more...
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April 22, 12:22 am
USAC Finance Committee chair to resign before term ends
The chair of the undergraduate student government’s finance committee for the past two school years will resign in May, about a month before her term is set to expire. Read more...
Photo: Current undergraduate student government Finance Committee Chair Cynthia Jasso plans to resign a month early. The position will be filled by her vice chair, Cindy Wang. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin)
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April 22, 12:16 am
UCLA student gives hope to Talented 90% in Compton
Deanna Jordan was alone in a hospital room in May 2008, with her newborn cradled in her arms. After giving birth to her third child, Kingston, at 22 years old, Jordan realized that she needed to turn her life around. Read more...
Photo: UCLA graduate student Deanna Jordan works with children as part of the Compton Pipeline Task-force, which she created to help give children educational resources. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)