Monday, October 26

New BruinCard readers allow residents to tap instead of swipe cards

UCLA is finishing up installing new access card readers in residence halls, causing mixed reactions among students. Students with new BruinCards can tap them on the new card readers to enter the residence halls, instead of swiping. Read more...

Photo: Shirley Lin, a second-year nursing student, swipes her card at one of the access stations on the Hill. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)


UCLA ranks sixth in nation for international student enrollment

UCLA has the sixth largest population of international students enrolled at its campus, according to a report published Monday by an independent nonprofit organization. The Open Doors Report showed that UCLA has admitted about 9,580 international students for the 2013-2014 academic year, an increase of 13.7 percent from last year. Read more...


Ex-Marine student combats injury, hopes to make impact through business

Derek Herrera was in combat when a sniper’s bullet struck him on a Special Operations mission in Afghanistan in June 2012. “It’s inherently risky what we do (in the military),” Herrera said. Read more...

Photo: Derek Herrera, a second-year student in the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s executive business program, planned to be a career Marine until it was no longer possible because of an injury. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)





Panelists speak at FACTS conference, discuss climate change issues

Alex Hall stood at the podium as he pointed to a graph showing two different scenarios of temperature: one accounting for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and another factoring in no reductions. Read more...

Photo: Alex Hall, professor in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, discusses reducing emissions and the impacts of climate change. (Max Himmelrich)