Ryan Neis and his friends were making their way through the crowd at a concert in February when someone told him not to come any closer because they did not want to catch the “Wuhan.” “Wuhan” refers to Wuhan, China, the city where the coronavirus pandemic is thought to have originated from. Read more...
Photo: Racism against Asians has become more prominent since COVID-19 surfaced according to a report, affecting the Asian community at UCLA. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo Editor)
Planted in front of their computer screens, more than 20 students stretched into the downward-facing dog pose as their yoga sculpt instructor shouted words of encouragement from her apartment in Westwood. Read more...
Photo: Third-year communication student Jade Gullery leads weekly virtual yoga sculpt classes from her apartment in Westwood. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)
Peter Chelebian, a first-year political science student, could have fulfilled one of his high school dreams this summer – until the pandemic hit. Since he was a high school junior, Chelebian had hoped to participate in the Terjenian-Thomas Assembly Internship Program, which places college students of Armenian descent in internships in Washington, D.C., About 20 students are accepted each year, and this year, Chelebian was one of them. Read more...
Photo: Many students at UCLA experienced changes in their plans for advancing their careers this summer as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin)
Some UCLA students felt that the process of donating to charity needed to be quicker, easier and more transparent. As a solution to this, they made an app. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students created a startup for people to donate directly to charities using an iOS app. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 27 at 4:15 p.m. UCLA announced that students may take more than one class pass/no pass for the spring quarter in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Students weigh in on the implications of certain departments in the College of Letters and Science not applying a pass/no pass grading policy to courses fulfilling major requirements. (Daily Bruin file photo)
When Jason Vu, a third-year global studies and Asian American studies student, went to Thai Town on a class trip last quarter, a lady saw him and immediately covered her face with a scarf and walked away to avoid him. Read more...
Photo: Over the past months, racism against the Asian American community has grown because of COVID-19 and its country of origin. These issues stem from microaggressions and racialization of the coronvirus, UCLA professors and students said. (Liz Ketcham/Photo Editor)
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kat Sharp has been living more than 400 miles away from her partner, Blue Flood. The two have been dating for four months. Read more...
Photo: (Shari Wei/Daily Bruin)
