Sunday, April 12

Hundreds of protesters march to Azerbaijani Consulate demanding justice for Armenia

A group of Armenian Americans marched to the Azerbaijani embassy after a week-long hunger strike to draw attention to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Members of the Armenian Youth Federation, a global Armenian organization, set up tents adorned with Armenian flags and banners on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Veteran Avenue on Sunday in response to the escalating armed conflict. Read more...

Photo: Members of the Armenian Youth Federation hosted a week-long hunger strike and a march to draw attention to the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Campus voting centers report high turnout, low wait times

This post was updated Nov. 3 at 9:41 p.m. In-person voting at UCLA spiked on Election Day relative to early voting, but poll workers and voters said wait times were still nonexistent. Read more...

Photo: Voters casted their ballots at Ackerman Student Union and Bradley International Hall on Election Day with little wait time. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)


Exploring Your Universe event brings science to the virtual sphere

The UCLA community heard professors and a Nobel Prize winner lecture on a variety of science topics from black holes to water purification at the first-ever virtual iteration of UCLA’s annual science fair. Read more...

Photo: Exploring Your Universe, UCLA’s annual science outreach program went virtual this year. The event was able to use a virtual platform to simulate the live booths, speaker stage as well as the planetarium show. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA study examines COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on gig workers

A UCLA report recommended companies give their workers greater control over management after examining the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on gig workers. The report, published in October, stated the pandemic has exacerbated many existing problems such as wage theft, as well as illegal violations of worker health and safety protections for gig workers. Read more...

Photo: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the gig economy, according to data gathered by a UCLA study. (Ben Brill/Graphics editor)


Activists gather at Jackie Robinson Stadium to protest UCPD, LAPD

This post was updated Nov. 8 at 8:13 p.m. Dozens of activists gathered at the Jackie Robinson Stadium parking lot Sunday to criticize UCLA’s role in letting the LAPD use the lot to detain protesters in June and to protest campus policing. Read more...

Photo: Activists gathered in the Jackie Robinson Stadium parking lot Sunday to criticize the lot’s use by LAPD to detain protesters June 1. Attendees laid white tiles printed with a picture of handcuffs on the pavement. (Jason Zhu/Daily Bruin staff)


UCLA and UCSF researchers begin to evaluate effect of COVID-19 on pregnancy

UCLA researchers are looking into how COVID-19 impacts pregnancy. COVID-19 is a relatively new disease and there is a lack of data about how covid affects pregnancy, said Rashmi Rao, an obstetrics and gynecology assistant clinical professor. Read more...

Photo: Researchers at UCLA and UCSF are looking at how COVID-19 affects pregnancies, since there’s not enough data on the subject. (Illustration by Shruti Iyer/Daily Bruin staff)