The University of California enrolled a record number of California undergraduate students for the fourth year in a row, despite a slight decrease in freshman applications, according to new UC enrollment data for 2019. Read more...
Photo: According to new University of California enrollment data, the UC increased in-state undergraduate enrollment by 1.4% in fall 2019, despite a 3% decrease in freshman applications.(Daily Bruin file photo)
Aritra Mullick had a midterm Monday at 8 a.m., but was at the UCLA QWER Hacks event the weekend before working on an app that would distinguish recyclable material from trash. Read more...
Photo: UCLA and non-UCLA students filled Ackerman Grand Ballroom for Major League Hacking’s first LGBTQ+ hackathon, in which teams participants raced to create a software program within 24 hours. (Daanish Bhatti/Daily Bruin)
Neil Peter Jampolis would sneak into the back of Broadway productions when he was a child to watch sets come together or actors rehearse. Jampolis’ career celebrated his love of the theater – he was a renowned lighting, scene and costume designer as well as a professor emeritus in the theater department at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Read more...
Photo: Neil Peter Jampolis, a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television for 26 years, died Dec. 15. Jampolis was a lighting, scene and costume designer who was nominated for four Tonys over the course of his career and won one. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
This post was updated Jan. 27 at 12:16 a.m. As a lifelong basketball player, Mert Gulen said he always felt a deep connection to Kobe Bryant. Read more...
Photo: A man holds a poster of Kobe Bryant, a Los Angeles Lakers legend who died in a helicopter crash Sunday, at a memorial dedicated to Bryant at L.A. Live. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Jan. 27 at 12:23 a.m. There are now two confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus in Southern California. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has confirmed the first case of 2019 novel coronavirus in Los Angeles County, according to a LAC DPH press release published Sunday morning. Read more...
This post was updated Jan. 27 at 12:11 a.m. UCLA will phase out single-use plastics across all campus operations starting this summer, campus organizations announced Friday. Read more...
Photo: The California Public Interest Research Group and the UCLA office of sustainability announced Friday that UCLA will phase out single-use plastics across all campus operations starting July. CALPIRG is working to make the policy UC-wide. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated Jan. 26 at 4:13 p.m. The governing board of the University of California met for its January meeting at UC San Francisco from Tuesday to Thursday. Read more...
Photo: The University of California Board of Regents discussed a potential tuition increase, campus sustainability and the UC’s goals for the upcoming decade during its January meeting. (Daily Bruin file photo)
