How does voting in one’s home state differ from voting in California? The Stack, Daily Bruin’s data visualization blog, breaks down the impact of voting in home states and how students from those states can tip the presidential election or races for the United States Senate. Read more...
Photo: (Chang Liu/Stack editor)
Students de-stressed by throwing pies on other students’ faces Wednesday. Bruins for Healthcare held an event from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Dickson Court where students that were stressed from midterms or needed to release frustration got to pie the organization’s board members in the face. Read more...
Photo: Board members of Bruins for Healthcare were pied on the face by students who felt stressed out due to midterms, as part of the student organization’s fundraising initiative. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
In a recent study, UCLA researchers found transgender adults are more racially and ethnically diverse in comparison to the general United States population. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which published the study in October, also found that transgender adults who identified with a certain race were significantly more likely to live in communities with a high proportion of individuals of the same race. Read more...
Researchers often seek to gather empirical data to make objective conclusions about their research. But pure scientific objectivity may actually lead to biased results, according to one researcher. Read more...
Photo: (Noelle Cho/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA associate professor will receive nearly a million dollars to fund her research as part of a new scientific fellowship program. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recognized electrical engineering associate professor Mona Jarrahi on Wednesday as a Moore Inventor Fellow for her invention of an imaging tool. Read more...
Photo: Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering, was named a Moore Inventor Fellow Wednesday for her research on terahertz-based imaging. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin staff)
Students who find themselves eating alone on the Hill have a new way to find a dining partner. With the Bruin Dine app, which was launched by three UCLA students, students are matched with a stranger for a meal. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students Dustin Wong (left), a fourth-year biology student, Ram Sivasundaram (center) and Victor Wu (right), fourth-year economics students, created Bruin Dine, a new app that helps students find people to eat with at dining halls on the Hill. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
UCLA campus organizations and departments are working to inform voters about the different candidates and ballot measures for Tuesday’s election. Student groups within BruinsVote!, a coalition that aims to increase student participation in elections, have compiled information about candidates, ballot measures and polling places to help students cast their votes. Read more...
Photo: Different campus groups around UCLA and UCSA are working in the days leading up to the election to inform voters on important ballot measures. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)
