This post was updated Jan. 28 at 10:58 p.m. When Dr. Irene Chen wraps up her day teaching courses and leading research, her work isn’t finished – she then heads back to the Hill, where she is an Olympic Hall faculty in residence. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Irene Chen, pictured, serves as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a faculty in residence for Olympic Hall. (Isabella Appell/Daily Bruin)
Former UCLA basketball player Russell Stong IV is tallying new assists off the court through a scholarship for low-income engineering students. The mechanical engineering graduate student announced in March the creation of the Russell Stong IV Engineering Scholarship, which will be used to support low-income students in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Read more...
Photo: Russell Stong IV is pictured next to the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Building. (Zoraiz Irshad/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA did not renew a contract for a teaching assistant, who now has to find another way to pay for his cancer treatments and tuition. Hughlin Boyd, a graduate student in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, received an email from UCLA the day before the start of the fall quarter, informing him that he was ineligible to work as a teaching assistant for the quarter. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA graduate student now has to find other ways to afford his tuition and health care after UCLA canceled his teaching assistant contract. (Esther Li/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA’s annual Relay For Life took place from noon Saturday to noon Sunday. Hosted by the American Cancer Society, the fundraising event aims to support those who have cancer and to remember those who have died from cancer. Read more...
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Students at the UCLA chapter of the California Public Interest Research Group, an advocacy group, showed students on Bruin Walk on Tuesday how Thanksgiving dinners would be limited without bees as part of its Save the Bees campaign. Read more...
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The Bruins Around The World event Wednesday featured a fashion show and several dance performances that represented the cultures and histories of the international community at UCLA. Read more...
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UCLA held its annual Veterans Day Ceremony in front of the Student Activities Center on Friday. Featured speakers at the event included Chancellor Gene Block and two U.S. Read more...
Photo: (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin)
