This post was updated Nov. 26 at 11:25 p.m. The Middle Eastern Student Association at UCLA has raised $24,300 for a charity working to provide medical care to children in Gaza. Read more...
Photo: Bruin Walk is pictured. As part of its recent fundraiser, the Middle Eastern Student Association at UCLA sold donuts on Bruin Walk. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Iroro Tanshi, winner of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s 2023 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, sat down with the Daily Bruin to discuss her award-winning work and plans for future research. Read more...
Photo: La Kretz Hall, which houses the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is pictured. The Daily Bruin sat down with the Institute’s 2023 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award winner, Iroro Tanshi, to discuss her research in bat conservation and plans for the future. (Joseph Jimenez/Photo editor)
The UCLA Study Abroad program hosted an informational study abroad event Nov. 13 for first-generation students in collaboration with First To Go. The event, which took place in Tom Bradley International Hall from 6 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Tom Bradley International Hall is pictured. The building hosted an information event Nov. 13 for students who are in the first generation in their family to go to college and want to study abroad. (Daily Bruin file photo)
