A group of around 20 UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professors, graduate student teaching assistants and undergraduate students spent more than three weeks conducting research in the Peruvian Amazon basin. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students, teaching assistants and professors pose for a group photo in the Peruvian Amazon basin. The group spent more than three weeks studying wildlife at the Cocha Cashu Biological Station. (Courtesy of Greg Grether)
Hundreds of UCLA community members gathered at a memorial for Powell Cat on Thursday afternoon to reflect on the cat’s nearly decadelong campus legacy following their death March 9. Read more...
Photo: Powell Cat is pictured outside Kaufman Hall. A memorial was held Thursday for the unofficial campus mascot, who died March 9. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated March 17 at 3:54 p.m. UCLA Asian American Studies Center librarian Marjorie Lee said she never imagined an archival gold mine of 1930s-1950s newspapers and magazines, exclusively written by and covering Chinese Americans, might be found in someone’s garage. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is Murphy Hall, where UCLA’s Institute of American Cultures is housed. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated March 15 at 8:25 p.m. Powell Cat was found dead outside Kaufman Hall on Thursday afternoon. Long considered an unofficial campus mascot, Powell Cat has resided at UCLA since around 2015. Read more...
Photo: Powell Cat is pictured outside Kaufman Hall. The unofficial campus mascot was found dead Thursday afternoon. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion awarded seven students the inaugural EDI Student Leadership Award on Jan. 31, celebrating their leadership, engagement and support for EDI within the UCLA community. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion awarded seven students (pictured) the EDI Student Leadership Award. They received the award to recognize their leadership in EDI. (Clockwise from top left: Courtesy of Tina Del Carpio, Courtesy of Carolanne Link, Courtesy of Umiemah Farrukh, Courtesy of Gloria Kim, Courtesy of Norma Sandoval, Courtesy of Ashley Ceballos Hernandez, Courtesy of Andrew Ramirez)
Stepping onto the tarmac at Santa Monica Flyers, Vedant Bhargava always reminds himself to go back to the same checklist – a mindset he calls “airplane mode.” The second-year economics student completes a laundry list of pre-flight checks before takeoff in a four-seat, single-engine airplane, including some for weather, passenger safety, fuel, and other flight technologies and conditions. Read more...
Photo: Second-year economics student Vedant Bhargava pilots a plane over Santa Monica. Bhargava said he has taken trips to locations all across Southern California. (Megan Cai/Assistant Photo editor)
The Children of the Diaspora hosted its first Valentine’s Day party Feb. 10 at Melrose Avenue, with attendees dressing in white, pink and red to signify participants’ relationship status. Read more...
Photo: (Biona Hui/Daily Bruin)
