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May 28, 1:07 am

Bruins for Accessible Resources holds first fair, providing variety of goods

Jayesh Menon became motivated to fight homelessness after witnessing a homeless woman begging for food with her infant daughter in Westwood Village last summer. “Everyone around us (was) ignoring her,” he said. Read more...

Photo: Bruins for Accessible Resources, a student organization which coordinates the efforts of homeless outreach programs on and off campus, held its first resource fair Saturday. It offered clothes, umbrellas and hygiene products donated by Good Clothes Good People, the Westwood Presbyterian Church and other groups. (Courtesy of Mark Jones, Sr.)

Campus, News

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May 27, 9:30 am

Previously missing student reported to be located and safe

This post was updated June 2 at 3:52 p.m. A student was found after previously being reported missing. Marc Kalis, a fourth-year statistics student, was reported to be located and safe by his mother, Christina Kalis, on May 31 after being reported missing for almost three weeks. Read more...

Photo: Marc Kalis, 22, had last been seen three weeks ago moving out of Sproul Hall. His mother, Christina Kalis, said he was located and found safe May 31.(Courtesy of Christina Kalis)

Campus, News

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May 25, 5:26 pm

Centennial event honors Reginaldo Francisco del Valle, one of UCLA’s founders

Students and faculty celebrated one of UCLA’s Latino founders for the first time Friday. Attendees of “Remembering UCLA’s Latino Forefather,” gathered at Founder’s Rock to celebrate Reginaldo Francisco del Valle, a Latino state senator who introduced legislation in 1881 establishing the Branch State Normal School in Los Angeles, which later became UCLA. Read more...

Photo: (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)

News, Westwood

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May 24, 12:18 am

Westwood residents in disagreement over whether new soccer field should be built

Westwood residents debated adding a new soccer field to Westwood Park at a meeting Thursday. Hundreds of residents packed the Westwood Recreation Center to discuss a plan to replace a large portion of an open grass field with a fenced, public regulation-size synthetic soccer field named after Tommy Mark, a youth soccer player who died in 2018. Read more...

Photo: Hundreds of Westwood residents and community members filled the Westwood Recreation Center on Thursday to discuss the potential creation of a new soccer field in Westwood Park. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)

A Closer Look, News, Science & Health

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May 24, 12:04 am

Engineering professor awarded Ellis Island Medal of Honor for antenna work

Yahya Rahmat-Samii’s lifelong passion for mathematics and space brought him from Iran to the United States to research antennas in the field of electromagnetics. “Like van Gogh used his brush to paint on canvas, so electromagnetic scientists are artists who use their antennae to paint electromagnetic waves,” he said. Read more...

Photo: Yahya Rahmat-Samii, a distinguished professor of electrical engineering, received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor on May 11. He was honored for his work teaching and researching in the field of electromagnetic communications. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)

Campus, News, Science & Health

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May 23, 11:54 pm

Engineering professor wins $175,000 award for potentially lifesaving research

A UCLA professor earned a National Science Foundation award for research that could improve the technology used in search and rescue missions, according to a university press release Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Achuta Kadambi, an assistant electrical and computer engineering professor, received a National Science Foundation award for his research. If successful, his research could improve the technology used in search and rescue missions. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)

News, Westwood

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May 23, 11:53 pm

NWWNC to sponsor chamber orchestra performance for Westwood residents, students

Students and Westwood residents can attend a free chamber orchestra concert next year. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council awarded Kaleidoscope, a conductorless chamber orchestra, a $5,000 neighborhood purpose grant at a meeting May 8 to hold a free concert in Westwood in the coming year. Read more...

Photo: The Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, which operates without a conductor, will be performing at Westwood some time next year after receiving a $5,000 neighborhood purpose grant from the North Westwood Neighborhood Council. (Courtesy of Benjamin Hoffman)


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