The UC announced May 16 that students and employees will soon be allowed to opt out of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate entirely. The change came after the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced that the federal COVID-19 public health emergency would end May 11. Read more...
Photo: A vaccine record card and a UCLA form are pictured. Students will be able to opt out of vaccinations as part of a new UC policy. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Around 200 people attended UCLA Transportation’s annual Bike Week Luncheon on May 18, bringing biking enthusiasts across the UCLA community together for free bike repairs, information on bike safety and giveaways. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Transportation held its annual Bike Week Luncheon on May 18. Attendees gathered at Wilson Plaza for bike safety information and free repairs. (Dylan Du/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Los Angeles City Council approved Mayor Karen Bass’ 2023-2024 city budget May 18 to draft a resolution for final approval. The $13.1 billion budget, which the council approved 13-1, funds a $1.3 billion investment to address homelessness, including $250 million for Inside Safe, an executive directive launched by Bass to help people experiencing homelessness move into temporary housing units. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles skyline is pictured. On May 18, the LA City Council voted to approve Mayor Karen Bass’ new city budget plan to draft a resolution for final approval. (David Rimer/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated June 5 at 12:11 a.m. The UCLA Beckman Scholars Program selected two undergraduate researchers in May as the organization’s 2023-2024 scholars. The scholarship – which is part of a national program funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation – is awarded annually to two undergraduate researchers for an honors or departmental thesis project under the supervision of a UCLA Beckman faculty member. Read more...
Photo: Third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student Cecilia McCormick (left) and third-year chemistry student Amanda Nguyen (right) are pictured. The two were selected as the 2023-2024 UCLA Beckman Scholars, a program that awards $18,200 for undergraduate research. (From left to right: Ella Greenberg Winnick/Daily Bruin and Stella Gray/Daily Bruin)
Former men’s basketball player Myles Johnson will be the student speaker at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science’s graduate student commencement. Johnson, who graduated in March with a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, announced in a tweet Monday that he will be speaking at the ceremony, which will be held June 18 at 1:30 p.m. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is pictured. Former men’s basketball player Myles Johnson, who recently received his master’s in electrical and computer engineering from the school, announced that he will speak at the school’s graduate student commencement. (Justin Jnryung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The inspiration for Sean Sugai’s class came from a phrase on Twitter that caught his eye. When the fourth-year anthropology and human biology and society student saw the phrase “Oceanic Filipinx Studies,” his interest was piqued. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year anthropology and human biology and society student Sean Sugai, an undergraduate instructor, teaches the university’s first oceanic Filipinx studies class. (Amelie Ionescu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council proposed a resolution calling for UCLA to expand COVID-19 protection measures. The resolution – sponsored by Cultural Affairs Commissioner Alicia Verdugo and General Representative Eliana Sisman – calls for the reintroduction of a mask mandate, the continuation of vending machines for COVID-19 tests and the reinforcement of isolation guidelines. Read more...
Photo: A surgical mask is pictured on a brick ground. The Undergraduate Students Association Council proposed a resolution pushing the university to reimplement a mask mandate, among other COVID-19 safety measures. (Daily Bruin file photo)
