One person died and two were injured in a car crash Tuesday morning on Wilshire Boulevard. LAPD officer Robert Kim said a car headed west on Wilshire Boulevard at 1:50 a.m. Read more...
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May 24, 12:26 am
UCLA student teaches high schoolers hip-hop to connect with culture
Sandra Parra said UCLA’s hip-hop community gave her a sense of belonging and power when she moved to Los Angeles as a freshman. Because hip-hop dance helped her identify with her culture during her first few months at UCLA, Parra, a fourth-year dance student, decided to help other students do the same in high school. Read more...
Photo: Sandra Parra, a fourth-year dance student, researches how hip-hop education helps Latino students at her local high school identify with their ethnicity. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
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May 24, 12:24 am
UCLA appoints interim dean for division of social sciences
UCLA officials appointed a law professor as interim dean for the division of social sciences Friday. Laura Gómez will temporarily replace Alessandro Duranti as dean of UCLA Division of Social Sciences on July 1, according to a statement to faculty and staff by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh. Read more...
Photo: Law professor Laura Gómez will temporarily replace Alessandro Duranti as dean of UCLA Division of Social Sciences on July 1. (Courtesy of Todd Cheney)
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May 24, 12:23 am
Q&A: UC student regent nominee discusses motivation, plans for change
A University of California Board of Regents committee nominated Paul Monge to be the student regent for the 2017-2018 academic year. Monge, a UC Berkeley law student, spoke with the Daily Bruin’s Ryan Leou to discuss what motivated him to become student regent and how he plans to address student issues. Read more...
Photo: Paul Monge, a University of California Berkeley law student, was nominated as the student regent for the 2017-2018 academic year. (Courtesy of Paul Monge)
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May 23, 2:09 pm
Man sentenced to nine years in prison for multiple Westwood robberies
A man who has robbed six people in Westwood Village since September was sentenced Monday to nine years and four months in state prison. Dennis Toliver pleaded no contest to two counts of first degree robbery and robbery charges from previous arrest at a preliminary hearing at the Airport Courthouse Monday morning. Read more...
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May 23, 1:24 pm
Q&A: Professor shares negative affects of ‘smartness’ for college students
Alexander Astin, professor emeritus at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is promoting his new book, “Are You Smart Enough?: How Colleges’ Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students,” at a launch in Santa Monica Friday. Read more...
Photo: Professor emeritus Alexander Astin is promoting his new book in which he discusses the inequity of higher education. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
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May 23, 12:57 am
UCLA doctoral students win $100,000 grant to research data recovery
Two electrical engineering doctoral students received a $100,000 fellowship to develop a way to increase the efficiency of data recovery from memory errors that are deemed uncorrectable. Read more...
Photo: Electrical engineering doctoral students Clayton Schoeny and Mark Gottscho won $100,000 to develop a way to recover data from memory errors. (Courtesy of Clayton Schoeny)