Growing up, Sophie Tanaka remembers seeing her mother break down in tears at a bank, overwhelmed by simple math calculations. A few years ago, her mom found enough confidence to return to community college to take a math class. Read more...
Photo: True Bruin Distinguished Senior Award winner Sophie Tanaka is working to address the lack of women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a $1.85 billion plan Tuesday that aims to ensure long-term housing for homeless individuals, among other improvements. A city council committee released the Comprehensive Homeless Strategy in November, which listed several recommendations that aimed to combat homelessness throughout Los Angeles. Read more...
Every year, a small city in Uganda transforms into a center of free surgery for patients who suffer a painful, unusual complication from childbirth – a hole torn between the birth canal and the bladder or rectum. Read more...
Photo: Christopher Tarnay, division chief of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and UCLA doctors travel to Uganda each year to help people with childbirth complications. (Courtesy of Oscar Zagal)
With primary races underway, student political organizations are using the presidential campaign as an opportunity to encourage students to vote on political issues that affect them. Read more...
Photo: Student political organizations such as Bruins for Bernie and Bruin Republicans among others, are implementing plans that aim to improve student voter turnout in the upcoming presidential election. (Rocio Flores Huaringa/Daily Bruin)
Several roads around Westwood will be closed Thursday night and Friday morning while President Barack Obama visits West Los Angeles, police said. He will stay in the W Hotel – West Beverly Hills on Hilgard Avenue, one block southeast of UCLA, for one night. Read more...
Photo: (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
A UCLA history professor involved in an ongoing Title IX lawsuit reached an agreement with UCLA that will allow him to return to teach. Gabriel Piterberg was suspended last spring quarter without pay and resigned from his position as director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies last May, after two graduate students filed sexual assault complaints against him. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...
Photo: The undergraduate student government approves a five-day election calendar. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
