Students arriving at Los Angeles International Airport can use the ride-sharing service Uber to return to Westwood Village. Los Angeles World Airports, or LAWA, allowed Uber to pick up passengers from LAX beginning Thursday. Read more...
News
Campus, News, Science & Health
|
January 25, 7:53 am
FuturizeX challenge finalists develop solutions to global problems
Six undergraduate students were selected Thursday as finalists in a campuswide challenge that encourages students to develop solutions to global problems. UCLA and XPRIZE, a nonprofit organization that facilitates competitions, launched the FuturizeX Student Challenge, which is open to undergraduate students. Read more...
Campus, News, Podcasts
|
January 25, 12:00 am
Language learners exchange more than just conversation
Editor’s note: This is part one of a three part series in which Bruin contributors Sydney Walls and Laurel Scott follow two international students through the Dashew Center’s quarter-long Language Exchange Program. Read more...
Photo: (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)
Crime, News, Westwood
|
January 22, 10:13 pm
UCPD looking for man accused of sexual assault in North Village
University police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a UCLA student at a party in the North Village early Friday. The student was at a party on Gayley Avenue near Strathmore Drive about midnight when an unknown man approached her and sexually assaulted her, according to a UCPD alert. Read more...
News
|
January 22, 12:34 am
Professor studies impact of Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia
Patrick Heuveline sat among villagers in Cambodia, showing them photos of his daughter to establish common ground with a group of people whose culture he had yet to fully understand. Read more...
Photo: Sociology profesor Patrick Heuveline has spent about 15 years studying the effects of the Khmer Rouge regime’s mass murder during the late 1970s in Cambodia. When he was 29, Heuveline adopted his daughter from an orphanage in Phnom Penh, where he worked at the time. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
News
|
January 22, 12:33 am
Supreme Court of California to hear case against UCLA for 2009 stabbing
The Supreme Court of California decided Wednesday to hear a case brought against UCLA by an alumna who was stabbed by a fellow student in 2009 in a Young Hall laboratory. Read more...
Campus, News
|
January 22, 12:29 am
Management school to launch accelerator program to foster entrepreneurialism
The UCLA Anderson School of Management will launch a year-round startup program Monday that aims to help student and faculty entrepreneurs launch startups and bring new products to commercial markets. Read more...
Photo: The Anderson Venture Accelerator program is a year-round startup program starting Monday that aims to help student and faculty entrepreneurs launch startups and bring new products to commercial markets. (Courtesy of UCLA Anderson School of Management)