Eleventh grade student Nasima Khan presented a year’s worth of research on cerebral palsy to students at UCLA Thursday, before touring the campus she hopes will someday be her own. Read more...
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May 24, 5:00 pm
UCLA’s Interaxon hosts high school students
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May 24, 1:33 am
Minority of workers participate in strike
Only about a quarter of union workers participated in this week’s planned strike at health systems across the University of California. About 75 percent of the union workers came to work for their scheduled shifts during the strike, which lasted from Tuesday to Thursday morning, said Dianne Klein, a UC spokeswoman. Read more...
Photo: AFSCME 3299 members across the UC went on strike this week in protest of stalled negotiations between patient-care workers and the University.
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May 24, 1:33 am
L.A. mayoral election suffers from low turnout
Very few voters registered in the Westwood and UCLA community actually cast a ballot in Tuesday’s mayoral elections, according to data from the L.A. City Clerk’s office. Read more...
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May 24, 1:28 am
UCLA’s BruinBus to introduce new route
Starting this summer, UCLA Transportation Services plans to discontinue a current BruinBus route in favor of a new express route. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Transportation Services plans to put in place a new express bus route that will only have two stops, Weyburn Terrace and Murphy Hall. The Northwest Shuttle Van, which runs between Southern Regional Library and Macgowan Hall, will stop its service due to limited hours and low student demand.
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May 23, 12:33 am
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies launches interactive language tutorial website
A video of a teenage girl chatting about her friends in the Egyptian Arabic dialect provides students with their first taste of the relatively understudied language. Read more...
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May 23, 12:27 am
UCLA launches new archive platform to preserve campaign histories
The end of the recent Los Angeles mayoral elections also brings the digitization of numerous campaign websites. But a new archiving platform within the UCLA Online Campaign Literature Archive will allow these pieces of digital political history to be preserved for years to come. Read more...
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May 23, 12:23 am
Grant forms partnership between UCLA, Rwandan institute aiming to improve women’s education
A developing partnership between UCLA and an institute in Rwanda aims to bridge the educational gender gap in the country. Read more...
Photo: Members of UCLA’s African Studies Center travel to Rwanda to work with the Kigali Institute of Education, Higher Education for Development.