Tuesday, March 24


In Plain Sight

In Plain Sight is a Daily Bruin features series designed to showcase the work that goes into making everyday life as a Bruin possible. As part of the series, our writers go behind the scenes to discover secrets of the university that are hidden in plain sight. Read more...



Ahead of pandemic-era freeze expiration, LA City Council approves rent increases

This post was updated Nov. 26 at 11:23 p.m. The Los Angeles City Council signed a compromise proposal Nov. 14 to allow rent increases in the city, ending a pandemic-era ban that has stood since 2020. Read more...

Photo: Apartments in Westwood are pictured. The Los Angeles City Council approved a proposal to allow a 4% rent increase Nov. 14, putting an end to pandemic-era bans on rent increases. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA Mobility Lab works to decrease traffic and improve safety in Westwood

This post was updated Nov. 26 at 11:29 p.m. On any given day, thousands of people walk past a traffic light next to the Gonda Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center. Read more...

Photo: A traffic light at the intersection of Charles E. Young Drive and Westwood Plaza is pictured with electrical equipment taped up to it. The light is part of UCLA’s Smart Intersection, a project under the UCLA Mobility Lab that analyzes traffic patterns to improve autonomous driving. (Ella Greenberg Winnick/Daily Bruin staff)


UC expert-led digitized version of Florentine Codex allows access to Nahua culture

This post was updated Nov. 28 at 5:56 p.m. UCLA and Getty Research Institute scholars recently released a digitized version of the Florentine Codex, a 16th century indigenous Mexican history record, making it a publicly accessible resource for research across the globe. Read more...

Photo: Insects in Book 11 of the Florentine Codex. (Courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT)


UCLA Spanish course explores culture through sensory experience

This post was updated Nov. 28 at 10:58 p.m. When most anthropologists study culture, the written word is most important. But for Professor Greg Cohen, the touch and sounds of calloused hands weaving fabric communicate dimensions of the cultural experience that cannot be translated into writing. Read more...

Photo: Pictured is Greg Cohen, a continuing lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Cohen is teaching a community engagement class on sensory ethnography. (Emily Tang/Daily Bruin senior staff)