This post was updated Jan. 9 at 10:41 a.m. The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s leadership may be turning over a new leaf, but its goals remain the same. Read more...
Photo: Eric Hoek, professor of civil and environmental engineering and former CEO of water technology startup Water Planet, was named the new faculty director of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. (Courtesy of Daniel Leibowitz/Sustainable LA Grand Challenge)
Underclassmen in the 1920s met on the football field for a ferocious and muddy battle of brawn as part of the “Sophomore-Freshman Brawl,” a now-defunct UCLA tradition. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students build floats in preparation for the 1956 homecoming parade. The parade is one of several campus traditions that haven’t lasted to the present day. (Daily Bruin archive)
When Carl Schottmiller, a disabilities studies professor, took a training hosted by UCLA’s Resilience in the Student Experience Center over the summer, he realized how little he knew about UCLA’s mental health resources. Read more...
Photo: Chris Schottmiller’s disabilities studies class presented projects devoted to raising awareness of mental health resources on campus. During the course of their projects, students conducted surveys and wrote newsletters, among other things. (Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor)
Several university housing projects set to be completed in the next few years are unlikely to lower rent costs in Westwood, experts say. Westwood Village has been rated the most expensive place to rent in California. Read more...
Photo: The introduction of new university housing over the next few years will at best only slow down rising rents, UCLA housing experts said. With the highest rent in California, Westwood Village can be prohibitively expensive for students who cannot live in university housing. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Khristopher Go faced food insecurity while studying psychology at UCLA. Go met undergraduate history advisor Paul Padilla as a work-study student in the history department. Padilla noticed Go’s struggle and made sure to always refill a candy jar with snacks and treats so Go would not be completely hungry at the end of the day, Go, now the coordinator of UCLA’s history department, said. Read more...
Photo: Paul Padilla, a history department undergraduate advisor, died last month. He is remembered by students and faculty for his deep knowledge of history and the department, his friendliness and his generosity. (Courtesy of UCLA History department)
On a November day in Feast at Rieber, students bearing nearly empty plates to the dish drop-off to be washed instead waited their turn to have their leftover food weighed. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Sustainability Committee, founded in 2004 to increase environmental sustainability on campus, has been auditing the food waste created by residential dining halls for the current and past academic years. Students turning in their dishes waited to have their leftover food weighed and recorded by volunteers during audits Nov. 18 and Nov. 20 at the De Neve and Feast at Reiber dining halls. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Visiting highly polluted cities even for a short time may impact your health, according to a new collaborative study between UCLA and Peking University. The researchers tracked health indicators of 26 healthy, nonsmoking Los Angeles residents before, during and after they spent 10 weeks in Beijing during the summers of 2014 and 2015, according to the study. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles residents who visited Beijing for 10 weeks during the summers of 2014 and 2015 exhibited poorer health as a result of their stay, according to a study led by UCLA and Peking University researchers. (Daily Bruin file photo)
