Sunday, April 12


Nonprofit expands clothing drive to include hygiene products for the homeless

Student organizations are expanding a clothing donation initiative to collect hygiene products and create a basic-needs redistribution center on campus. Good Clothes Good People, a nonprofit organization that redistributes donated clothes locally, collaborated with student groups, such as Bruin Visual Arts Club, Hunger Project at UCLA and the LGBT Campus Resource Center, to expand its clothing donation bin program this year. Read more...


UCLA ranks as second-best public university nationwide, ninth in world

A magazine that reports on higher education ranked UCLA the second-best public university in the United States. The Times Higher Education published their World Reputation Rankings for 2018 on Wednesday, which ranked UCLA ninth in the world among 100 universities, an increase from 13th last year. Read more...

Photo: UCLA ranked ninth best university worldwide in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, an increase from 13th last year. (Daily Bruin file photo)



Researchers invent device to synthesize tissue that could be used in transplants

UCLA bioengineers developed a device that uses 3D printing technology to create artificial tissue that could be used during transplants. A team of researchers led by Ali Khademhosseini, an engineering professor at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, discovered a technology that can print tissue using multiple materials. Read more...

Photo: UCLA researchers 3D printed tissue that could be used in implants. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)



Judicial board orders election board to issue, properly define sanction

This post was updated May 29 at 9:55 p.m. The undergraduate student government judicial board ordered the election board Tuesday to clearly issue a reasonable sanction for a case in which it found candidates had engaged in voter coercion. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board, led by Chief Justice Nicholas Yu (center), released its decisions from petitions 18-6 and 18-10 Tuesday. (Nathan Smith/Daily Bruin senior staff)