UCLA researchers developed a gel that can heal wounded eyeballs. The adhesive gel, when applied to injuries on the cornea, the outermost layer of the eye, promotes the growth of surrounding cells and seals any cuts. Read more...
Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Daily Bruin)
Alejandra Cervantes is teaching fellow undergraduate students how to improve STEM teaching in higher education through her own credit-bearing class. Cervantes, a fourth-year mathematics and computer science student, created a seminar called “Lifelong Kindergarten: Reimagining STEM Higher Education Pedagogy” through the Undergraduate Student Initiated Education program. Read more...
Photo: Under the Undergraduate Student Initiated Education program, third-year and fourth-year students can develop and teach a one-unit seminar with the help of faculty supervisors and a chosen advisor over the course of the year. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin staff)
Experts said state bills proposed in response to the college admissions cheating scandal may not have immediate effects on the role wealth plays in the college admissions process. Read more...
Photo: California lawmakers proposed a package of bills on March 28 in response to the recent college admissions scandal. These bills were aimed at addressing the illegal measures taken by wealthy parents to grant their children admissions into elite universities, including UCLA. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Student government election coordinators were found Friday to have violated their constitution and election code. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board found at a hearing Thursday the USAC Election Board failed to treat all candidates equally and to enforce campaign deadlines, in line with election guidelines. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board found multiple violations that the USAC Election Board had committed. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
Quarter system got you down? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Bruin Tea is a series investigating student questions and petty concerns about UCLA. Question: Who chooses the dining hall music? Read more...
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Complaint: Why are Boelter Hall and the Mathematical Sciences Building so confusing? South Campus students criticize the layout of the connected Boelter Hall and Mathematical Sciences Building. Read more...
Photo: South Campus students are criticizing the Mathematical Sciences Building and Boelter Halll’s layout, saying the structures are confusing to navigate. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
This post was updated April 15 at 2:32 p.m. The Daily Bruin editorial staff met with The Bruin’s publishing board Wednesday to call for reforms in the policies governing the appointment of future editors in chief, after several Bruin staff members announced a strike Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Dozens of Daily Bruin staffers went on strike Tuesday morning after the board which oversees the paper selected an editor in chief against the staff endorsement. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
