UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report received state funding for the first time under the 2021-2022 California state budget, providing financial support for extended analysis of diversity in Hollywood television and film. Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 29 at 8:39 p.m. When asked what his academic major was, alumnus Mike Murase jokingly replied, “Activism.” Murase, who completed his undergraduate degree in 1970, said he had few opportunities to learn about Asian Americans in the classroom. Read more...
Photo: (Above: A pointillist rendition of a photo of the GIDRA staff). At UCLA in 1969, a group of Asian American students banded together to form Gidra, a newspaper for Asian American issues. Nearly 50 years after its last regular issue in 1974, members of the Asian American community in Los Angeles, including UCLA alumni and others, have recently revived the publication as Gidra Media. (Suzi Partridge/Courtesy of GIDRA)
UCLA has retained its dedication to European language studies in creating the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, which has been official since spring 2021 and will begin its first full academic year as a fully operational department in fall 2021. Read more...
Photo: In Spring 2021, UCLA merged the departments of French and Francophone studies, Germanic languages, Scandinavian and Italian to create the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies. The new ELTS department, situated in Royce Hall, will embark on its first full academic year in operation in fall 2021, offering new majors and minors to students.
Students expressed enthusiasm for UCLA’s upcoming plans to open the Black Bruin Resource Center as a physical space on campus after its first year of virtual operations. Read more...
Photo: UCLA plans to officially open its on-campus Black Bruin Resource Center this fall. The center, situated in Kerckhoff Hall, will welcome students to use the space for meetings and activities. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
This post was updated Aug. 15 at 7:26 p.m. Brick by brick, a UCLA alumnus is building his way to the top on Fox’s “LEGO Masters,” a Lego-building reality competition show. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Tom Griscom/FOX)
This post was updated Aug. 14 at 2:16 p.m. New businesses are opening their doors in Westwood Village following a year of pandemic-related business closures and hardships. Read more...
Photo: New businesses are coming to Westwood with at least five new ones since April. The recent openings followed a year of pandemic-related hardships and closures for operators. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Aug. 8 at 10:07 p.m. When Kakeru Iwabuchi learned the 2020 Summer Olympics would be held in Tokyo, he was ecstatic. Iwabuchi, a fourth-year sociology student from Japan, said he even applied to be an Olympic volunteer, hoping to support the Games. Read more...
Photo: Japanese international students have mixed feelings about Tokyo’s decision to proceed with hosting the Olympic Games in July despite an ongoing state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and record numbers of daily infections. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin)
