Zehra Abbas spent her second year at UCLA hiding her belly after she found out she was pregnant. “I hid my pregnancy with jackets because I was under the impression that there was something wrong with me,” Abbas said. Read more...
Photo: Zehra Abbas, a fifth-year history student, struggled with pregnancy during her second year. She is now looking forward to graduating this year and creating a better future for her two-year-old child. (Burcu Turkay/Daily Bruin)
UCLA was ranked the 10th best university in the world and the second best American public university in a 2017 global university ranking Tuesday. The university dropped two ranks since last year’s U.S. Read more...
Photo: UCLA was ranked 10th best global university in new rankings released by U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday. (Jintak Han/Assistant photo editor)
Westwood officials discussed plans to retain revenue from parking meters, improve infrastructure and make businesses more sustainable at a public meeting Tuesday. The Westwood Village Improvement Association held its annual meeting at the Geffen Playhouse on Tuesday, where its staff discussed last year’s progress and what the public can expect in 2017. Read more...
Photo: Zev Yaroslavsky, a former Los Angeles city council member, spoke at the Westwood Village Improvement Association’s annual meeting Tuesday. (Catherine Liberty Feliciano/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center hired a new interim director Monday. Marjorie Kagawa-Singer began her role as interim director immediately and will serve until June 30, 2017. Read more...
Photo: Marjorie Kagawa-Singer started in her new position as interim director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center on Monday. (Courtesy of Melany de la Cruz-Viesca)
UCLA student organizations registered more than 10,000 students to vote, beating USC in a voter registration competition. UCLA student groups registered 10,109 students and USC student groups registered 411 students, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk announced Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Volunteers posed with the “Vote Goat,” which attended BruinsVote!’s last voter registration event Monday. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
If food waste were a country, it would be the third largest in the world behind China and the United States in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, a health sciences professor told students at a panel Monday. Read more...
Photo: The Healthy Campus Initiative hosted a panel about the impact of certain eating habits on the environment. Speakers discussed the benefits of eating a diet with more plant matter and less animal protein for the human body. (Emaan Baqai/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Students came up with solutions to solve the Syrian refugee crisis in a competition over the last two weeks. The United Nations Association at UCLA asked students to come up with solutions to the Syrian refugee crisis in its first-ever GenUN Case Competition. Read more...
Photo: Lucy Xiao, first-year political science student, Kimberly Keen, fourth-year political science student, and Kathleen Tedi, third-year political science student presented their solutions for the Syrian refugee crisis as part of a competition put on by the United Nations Association at UCLA. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
