This post was updated Nov. 2 at 11:15 a.m. An $8.4 billion bond for immunology and immunotherapy research will appear on the November ballot. Proposition 38, if passed, would allocate half of the bond proceeds to one UC-affiliated nonprofit research institute selected by the California Department of Public Health. Read more...
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This post was updated Oct. 29 at 11:04 p.m. California’s next governor will inherit a public higher education system facing rising costs, increased student living expenses and federal funding uncertainties. Read more...
Photo: The California state capitol building is pictured. The next governor will inherit a higher education system facing rising costs, affordability issues and funding uncertainty. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 1 at 11:18 p.m. Noor Baber said helping her immigrant parents navigate the American voting process reinforced her belief in the power of political participation. Read more...
Photo: Student canvassers Kristian Suazo (left), a fourth-year labor studies and political science student, and Noor Baber (right), a fourth-year political science student, are pictured. Several students have spent hours canvassing across campus to advocate for Nithya Raman, who is competing against the incumbent Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor. (Courtesy of Kristian Suazo and Noor Baber)
UCLA students launched a new publication Monday that aims to raise awareness about environmental issues through storytelling. Written, edited and peer-reviewed entirely by undergraduate students, LENS: The Journal of Environmental Narratives allows students to display their creative and scholarly environmental work at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Read more...
Photo: Julia Awad, the LENS journal’s editor-in-chief and a fourth-year English student, holds a copy of LENS. She said the journal’s mission is to advocate for storytelling as a way to understand the present, past and future of the environment. (Charlie Hamilton/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The UC system’s primary confidential resource for survivors of sexual violence has an average of one professional advocate for every 12,000 students. Campus Advocacy Resources & Education is the most trusted campus resource by survivors, according to a 2026 report by Survivors + Allies, a student-led organization that advocates for survivors of sexual violence. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA Health building is pictured. UCLA student groups are calling for more resources for survivors of sexual violence, especially those outside of the Title IX Office. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA announced this month that it will expand the number and operating hours of essential health vending machines on campus. The Be Well Bruin Express – launched by UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center and UCLA’s Health Education and Resource Team in partnership with UCLA Vending Services – is stocked with a variety of health-related products and operates 24 hours a day outside the Ashe Center. Read more...
Photo: A Be Well Bruin Express vending machine is pictured. UCLA will expand the number and hours of vending machines stocked with a variety of health-related products around campus. (Charlie Hamilton/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Californians will vote this November on whether to expand the state’s budget reserves. Proposition 2, which will appear on the November ballot, was introduced by Democrat state legislators. Read more...
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