The UCLA community expressed concern after the Asian American Studies Center received a flyer declaring that a white supremacist rally would be held on campus on Feb. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students and faculty expressed concerns about the university’s response after the Asian American studies department received a flyer regarding a white supremacist rally that was meant to occur Feb. 14. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
University of California students and faculty expressed support for a proposed bill that would lend $5 billion to construct affordable housing while also urging the UC to find more solutions for systemwide housing shortages. Read more...
Photo: The Landfair apartments are one of the multiple university-owned housing options for UCLA students. University of California community members are calling for more systemwide efforts to address student housing shortages. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann spoke about the need to increase the accessibility of higher education in a Zoom lecture Thursday. Heumann has been advocating for disability rights since the 1970s and has worked on legislation including Section 504, the Individuals with Education Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, according to a UCLA press release. Read more...
Photo: Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann spoke with student leaders and at the Regents’ Professors and Lecturers Program to discuss the accessibility of higher education. (Screen capture by Sakshi Joglekar/Assistant Photo editor)
The North Westwood Neighborhood Council is the official neighborhood council representing UCLA, Westwood Village and the North Village to the Los Angeles City Council. Council meetings are held each month and open to the public via Zoom. Read more...
UCLA ethicists and neuroscientists recently collaborated with other researchers across the country to create a list of principles for ethical invasive brain research. Intracranial research uses invasive techniques inside the skull in order to answer fundamental questions about the brain and help provide treatments to patients with brain disorders that are untreatable with traditional methods, experts said. Read more...
Photo: A computer displays a diagram of the brain that can be found in a textbook. UCLA researchers helped establish a list of ethical principles for the emerging field of intracranial research. (Joseph Jimenez/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated March 1 at 6:51 p.m. Students’ 16-day sit-in is now over. Student leaders decided Wednesday morning to suspend their 16-day sit-in at Murphy Hall after reaching an agreement with UCLA administrators regarding their demands for increased accessibility and education equity. Read more...
Photo: After coming to an agreement with the university, student leaders suspended their sit-in at Murphy Hall. (Seth Van Matre/Daily Bruin)
Students said the new Daily Symptom Monitoring Survey is helpful for COVID-19 safety but should be shortened for more convenience and to increase compliance. UCLA created the Daily Symptom Monitoring Survey in June 2020 to improve campus safety by asking students, faculty and staff whether or not they are exhibiting any symptoms of COVID-19. Read more...
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