Shaylyn Becton believes community college should have no barriers. That’s why she advocated for California Assembly Bill 1035 – a bill that would waive fees for community college students – as a California fellow for IGNITE, a civic engagement organization for women that holds an annual state-level advocacy conference, IGNITE the Capitol California. Read more...
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Dr. Paul Lukac, the inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer at UCLA Health, sat down with Daily Bruin science and health editor Shaun Thomas to discuss how UCLA Health is leveraging AI to improve scheduling and organization and how it is preparing its workforce for an increasingly digital future. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Lukac, the inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer at UCLA Health, is pictured. (Courtesy of Paul Lukac)
United Auto Workers Local 4811 demanded protections for immigrant workers, pay equity and pushback against federal funding cuts during negotiations with the UC beginning July 8. Read more...
Photo: A United Auto Workers Local 4811 protest is pictured. UAW Local 4811 demanded protections for immigrant workers, pay equity and pushback against federal funding cuts during negotiations with the UC beginning July 8. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution calling on the UC to end its ban on student governments boycotting Israel and approved letters to Chancellor Julio Frenk and Gov. Read more...
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:08 p.m. A new technology dashboard created by UCLA researchers highlights climate inequity and air pollution in the Latino community. Read more...
Photo: The Climate and Health Dashboard is pictured. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 9:58 p.m. Vanessa Aviva González-Siegel, a transgender woman, could not obtain hormone replacement therapy when she first asked as an undergraduate student. Read more...
Photo: Vanessa Aviva González-Siegel sits in her office. González-Siegel, the director of UCLA’s LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, ensures support for students remains consistent amid changes in government and UC-wide policy. (Amanda Velasco/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Since March, the Trump administration has suspended the research grants of multiple elite private universities for allegedly allowing antisemitism on their campuses. But in July, it went after UCLA, a public university that experts said has fewer resources to handle the suspension of its grants and is more wrapped up in politics as one of the flagship universities of a blue state. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. Since March, the Trump administration has suspended the research grants of multiple elite private universities for allegedly allowing antisemitism on their campuses. (Daily Bruin file photo)
