Students chanted “Hey, hey, sanctuary campus UCLA!” and “Not one more … deportation!” in a crowded Haines Hall room Thursday night. About 150 students, labor union organizers and grassroots organizers attended a town hall about making UCLA a sanctuary campus for undocumented students. Read more...
Photo: Labor union organizers and Socialist Alternative leaders spoke at the UCLA Sanctuary Campus Town Hall in Haines Hall Thursday night. (Tianyi Ruan/Daily Bruin)
The Saving Hearts Foundation will host its first free heart screening at UCLA in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Read more...
About 6 percent of registered voters in Westwood and on campus voted in Los Angeles County municipal elections Tuesday. Out of 13,081 registered voters on campus, the Hill, the North Village and Westwood Village, only 810 cast ballots. Read more...
Photo: Only 7.5 percent of students registered to vote on the Hill participated in Tuesday’s Los Angeles County municipal elections. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA partnership will offer the first doctorate degree in conservation research in North America. The UCLA and Getty Conservation Institute’s Interdepartmental Program will offer a Master of Science and doctorate degree in conservation of material culture beginning in 2018. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Getty Conservation Institute’s Interdepartmental Program will begin offering a doctorate in conservation of material culture in 2018. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Undocumented students expressed concern about President Donald Trump’s looser deportation policies, but said they want to continue advocating for those vulnerable to the legislation. The Department of Homeland Security released new deportation guidelines Feb. Read more...
A UCLA professor is working to develop a treatment for spinal cord injuries, which are currently incurable. Stephanie Seidlits, assistant professor of bioengineering, will attempt to use biomaterial made out of hyaluronic acid – a long chain of sugars in the body – to create a treatment that can be injected into spinal cords. Read more...
Photo: Stephanie Seidlits, an assistant bioengineering professor, won $500,000 to engineer a device to treat spinal cord injuries. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA alumnus prides himself on turning what could be a tiresome, six-hour drive through the farms of California into a karaoke party on wheels. Michael Nguyen, who graduated in 2013 and is now a California State University, San Bernardino adjunct professor, often rents out a van for major school breaks to shuttle UCLA students to and from the Bay Area. Read more...
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