When Hidehiro Anto previously competed in a national quiz bowl competition, he competed alone against teams of four people. But next weekend, Anto will be joined by two more teammates when UCLA competes in its first national championship since 2015. Read more...
Photo: Members of the College Bowl Club at UCLA will compete against quiz bowl teams from 35 other colleges at the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament on Saturday near Chicago. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
The countdown had officially begun. About 50 students were crammed into a bunker in the Mojave Desert, awaiting the test launch of their latest liquid rocket prototype. Read more...
Photo: Anil Nair, a fourth-year aerospace engineering student and club president, said the Rocket Project at UCLA is preparing for the FAR-MARS competition in May, which awards $50,000 to the collegiate team whose rocket comes closest to a 45,000 feet altitude. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Pineda)
A new pizza restaurant in Westwood is serving up Italian and New York-style food. King of New York Pizza opened at the corner of Gayley and Kinross avenues April 3. Read more...
Photo: Kony Pizza, which serves Italian and New York-style food, opened on the corner of Gayley and Kinross avenues April 3. (Jacob Preal/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This year’s Graduate Students Association elections will include five candidates running, three of whom are running unopposed, and a referendum. Graduate students can begin voting on MyUCLA from Wednesday to Tuesday. Read more...
The undergraduate student government judicial board has decided to review a petition from a student who claims the disqualification of a candidate violated the election code. Read more...
Individuals who were incarcerated as children are more likely to be vulnerable to mental and general health complications later in life, UCLA researchers found. In a study published March 29, researchers in the social welfare and pediatrics departments compared health trends such as depressive symptoms, suicidality and functional limitations among individuals who were never incarcerated, those incarcerated before age 14 and those incarcerated after age 14. Read more...
UCLA experts said while multifactor authentication may protect users’ personal information, requiring them to authenticate frequently is redundant. All UCLA students are required to use multifactor authentication to log in to their MyUCLA account starting April 17. Read more...
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