Abraham Adhanom was wrapping up his 14th year of teaching two African language courses when the dean of humanities notified him his classes would be eliminated after spring 2025. Read more...
Photo: The African Studies Center in Bunche Hall is pictured. Professors, lecturers and department heads from various language programs said UCLA has threatened to – or already has – downsized language programs because of budget cuts, both at the state and federal level. (Joice Ngo/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 27 at 10:04 p.m. All electric scooters and bikes used on campus or stored in UCLA-owned housing must be certified and registered starting Nov. Read more...
Photo: Multiple e-scooters is pictured. All electric scooters and bikes used on campus or stored in UCLA-owned housing must be certified and registered starting Nov. 20, UCLA administrators announced in a Monday email. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
Quincy Peters’ family friend was shot and killed by police in 2008. Fifteen years later, she began working at the UCLA BioCritical Studies Lab – where researchers analyze the autopsies of people who have died in jails or during encounters with law enforcement officers – with the hopes of making legislative change to the policing system. Read more...
Photo: Keel and the BCS lab are pictured with the book. (Courtesy of Terence Keel)
More than 100 people gathered Wednesday in Wilson Plaza to eat Persian food, practice Chinese calligraphy and watch traditional performances as part of World Languages Day. Read more...
Photo: Community members attend UCLA’s World Languages Day event in Wilson Plaza. The annual event highlighted various language programs, study abroad options and post-graduation employment opportunities for multilingual students. (Elle Smith/Daily Bruin)
A group of UCLA students placed third in an annual national economics competition hosted by the Federal Reserve on Nov. 21. Nearly 140 teams from 36 states competed in the National College Fed Challenge and finals were held in Washington, D.C. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s team for the National College Fed Challenge is pictured in Washington, D.C. The team placed third in the 2025 competition, which was the first in-person conference since the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy of UCLA’s team for the Fed Challenge)
Modern artificial intelligence models have an environmental impact, especially when it comes to image generation. But as demand for these models grows, UCLA engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan and his team have reimagined a way to generate AI images with less energy. Read more...
Photo: (Helen Juwon Park /Illustrations director)
This post was updated Jan. 19 at 9:23 p.m. Yeonjun Kim, a trained pianist of 12 years, is used to playing his instrument alone. But the second-year bioengineering student has found that when he plays the public pianos on the Hill, his solo piano sessions sometimes become more social affairs. Read more...
Photo: (Shimi Goldberger/Daily Bruin Staff)
