Zehra Abbas spent her second year at UCLA hiding her belly after she found out she was pregnant. “I hid my pregnancy with jackets because I was under the impression that there was something wrong with me,” Abbas said. Read more...
Photo: Zehra Abbas, a fifth-year history student, struggled with pregnancy during her second year. She is now looking forward to graduating this year and creating a better future for her two-year-old child. (Burcu Turkay/Daily Bruin)
Students came up with solutions to solve the Syrian refugee crisis in a competition over the last two weeks. The United Nations Association at UCLA asked students to come up with solutions to the Syrian refugee crisis in its first-ever GenUN Case Competition. Read more...
Photo: Lucy Xiao, first-year political science student, Kimberly Keen, fourth-year political science student, and Kathleen Tedi, third-year political science student presented their solutions for the Syrian refugee crisis as part of a competition put on by the United Nations Association at UCLA. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Marianne Simpson spent the summer after her first year of college digging hundreds of relics and bones out of the ruins of an ancient Greek city. Read more...
Photo: Jamie Aprile, UCLA doctoral alumnus and field school director for Methone, and fourth-year UCLA Theatre and Ancient Greek student Christopher Sanders work together on a sift, separating out dirt and picking out special finds to be bagged. Wheel barrels of dirt are taken from trenches over to a series of sifts where smaller, but equally important material is found and bagged for study. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The city plans to open a dog park at a Westwood recreation center near Santa Monica Boulevard. The dog park will replace playground equipment near Veteran Avenue at the Westwood Recreation Center, said Jasmine Shamolian, a field deputy for Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles city officials announced they would close the dog park at Barrington park and open another one at the Westwood Recreation Center. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
UCLA students performed a cultural dance at the annual Navratri Raas-Garba event Sunday. The Indian Student Union at UCLA hosted the event from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Read more...
Photo: (Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)
Students remember Skye Donald as a lecturer who introduced them to the legal world with joy and empathy, even as she was battling cancer. “We’re going to miss that can-do energy and positive appreciation of life,” said Eileen Scallen, Donald’s supervisor and associate dean for curriculum and academic affairs at UCLA School of Law. Read more...
