Friday, June 27

CEC event allows students to cook alongside Antoni Porowski over Zoom

UCLA students cooked spaghetti alongside a star of the Emmy Award-winning series “Queer Eye” through Zoom on Saturday. UCLA’s Campus Events Commission invited Antoni Porowski, known for his role in the Netflix series “Queer Eye,” to lead an online cookalong of his easy spaghetti recipe open to UCLA students. Read more...

Photo: Antoni Porowski, a star of the Emmy Award-winning series “Queer Eye”, cooked his take on spaghetti with UCLA students through Zoom on Saturday. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)


CAPS sees fewer students seeking mental health services despite pandemic

Amid stay-at-home orders and a pandemic, student use of UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services has more than halved. The number of students using CAPS services for the first time in at least six months has dropped 65% to 70% between finals week of winter quarter and the start of week four, said Nicole Green, executive director of CAPS. Read more...

Photo: (Muling Shi/Daily Bruin)


Move to online learning has positives and negatives for students with disabilities

The transition to online classes has been a mixed bag for Will Higbie, a third-year aerospace engineering student. Higbie has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulty regulating attention. Read more...

Photo: Students with disabilities face unique challenges adjusting to online education. In a few ways, however, the change has made things easier.(Daily Bruin file photo)


Daily Bruin alum awarded Pulitzer Prize for investigation of US Navy’s 7th Fleet

People say there are two types of journalists: journalists who beg for information and journalists who bulldoze their way for information. UCLA alumnus and former Daily Bruin editor Robert Faturechi falls into the latter, said recent Pulitzer Prize winner T. Read more...

Photo: Robert Faturechi, a ProPublica reporter and Daily Bruin alumnus, recently won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation he and two other journalists conducted into U.S. Navy leadership in the aftermath of several fatal accidents. (Courtesy of ProPublica)




Good Things are Bruin: Four stories of community support amid COVID-19 restrictions

Some Bruins have made efforts to give back to their communities despite social restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. This series of articles, each made of several short stories, aims to remind us “Good Things are Bruin” and provide some hopeful news during a difficult time. Read more...

Photo: Paul Kurek, a Germanic languages graduate student, said he tries to help out the community by donating still-useful items students that have been discarded in North Westwood Village. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin senior staff)



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