Thursday, April 2


SWC reFRESH campaign aims to revitalize students’ health

An undergraduate student government office will allow students to discuss a variety of hygiene-related issues, including the cultural norms of shaving and the importance of dental care, during a month-long campaign beginning this week. Read more...

Photo: The undergraduate student government Student Wellness commissioner organized reFRESH 2016, a month-long campaign to help students improve their hygiene and health. (Daily Bruin file photo)





UCPD holds training program for handling active shooter situations

University police held a training program beginning last month in Pauley Pavilion to teach UCLA employees how to react to active shooter situations. Janina Montero, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, reached out to UCPD and asked officers to train about 15,000 employees in student affairs departments, such as UCLA Recreation, UCLA Athletics and Residential Life, said UCPD Lt. Read more...

Photo: Employees in UCLA student affairs departments attended a UCPD-led training in Pauley Pavilion about what to do in an active shooter situation. (Daily Bruin file photo)


True Bruin senior scholar weaves love for music with passion for medicine

Six-year-old Avinash Malaviya’s piano teacher taught him to play by ear. Malaviya, now a fourth-year ethnomusicology and neuroscience student, recalls walking into his first lesson, his nervousness stifling his normally energetic personality. Read more...

Photo: Avinash Malaviya, a winner of the True Bruin Distinguished Senior Award, is working to combine his two loves: music and neuroscience. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)