For fourth-year psychobiology student Kriseira Lamas, her commute to UCLA on LA Metro’s transportation lacks guaranteed safety. Her experience is not uncommon; many UCLA commuter students face crimes ranging from inappropriate groping to assaults while commuting to and from campus via public transportation. Read more...
Photo: LA Metro discussed ways to increase public safety on their transit services as many report sexual harassment incidents aboard public transit. (Esther Ma/Daily Bruin)
UCLA researchers launched a virtual reality app in April to make learning organic chemistry more engaging for undergraduate students. Introductory organic chemistry courses focus on chemical structures. Read more...
Photo: Organic chemistry can be challenging for students to learn at first. A team of UCLA researchers hopes to change that with their new app that can visualize molecules using virtual reality. (Jason Zhu/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA’s medical school received the second-highest funding nationally among academic medical centers in 2020 from the National Institutes of Health. According to a UCLA Health press release, the David Geffen School of Medicine received around $590 million in grants from the NIH last year. Read more...
The Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Read more...
This post was updated May 8 at 12:07 a.m. The undergraduate student body elected a president from the For The People slate but failed to reach the required threshold to pass the Bruin Emergency Relief Fund Referendum. Only 19.82% of undergraduate students voted in the 2021 Undergraduate Students Association Election, down from 30.06% in last year’s election. Read more...
Photo: Turnout in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election dropped to under 20% from over 30% in 2020. (Courtesy of USAC candidates)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution in support of the creation of a Basic Needs Student Advisory Board. The council discussed the alleged misuse of $30,000 of student funds for the renovation of the Center for Accessible Education and the voter turnout in the USAC elections. Read more...
Students and alumni express frustrations after being forced to turn to social media posts and personal networks to protect themselves following a nationwide cyberattack. On March 29, the University of California received notice that the personal information of employees, alumni, retirees and current and prospective students were compromised following a cyberattack on the Accellion file transfer appliance. Read more...
Photo: (Katelyn Dang/Daily Bruin)
