Laura Gonzalez felt her heart sink as she waited for her team’s rocket to deploy a parachute during last year’s NASA First Nations Launch competition. The parachute never appeared. Read more...
Photo: Members of the UCLA Bearospace rocket team are pictured holding a rocket they built. The team participates every year in the NASA First Nations Launch competition. (Courtesy of Fabian Del Villar)
This post was updated Jan. 11 at 10:43 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council held its first meeting of 2024 on Tuesday. USAC is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Read more...
The first time Richard Wong stood in front of a lecture hall of hundreds of students, it felt like a performance. “It was kind of scary to be like, ‘Here’s a class of 210 students. Read more...
Photo: A large lecture hall with students is pictured. Professors teaching Mathematics 32A, a lower-division course with hundreds of students, discussed some of the challenges they have faced and rewards they have found through teaching the class. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute launched its Latino Data Hub in October, which provides data on demographic factors that might contribute to inequality in Latino communities in the United States. Read more...
Photo: The Public Affairs Building is pictured. UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute launched its Latino Data Hub, which includes information on more than 80 indicators, in the fall. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Jan. 9 at 9:41 p.m. Second-year art student Youngjae Choi always knew he wanted to fly. Coming from a family of fighter pilots in South Korea, Choi faced barriers in joining the United States Air Force Academy. Read more...
Photo: Pictured are cadets participating in training exercises as part of the Air Force ROTC. Cadets in the Air Force ROTC learn about aerospace science and participate in physical training activities. (Courtesy of Dennis Melka)
Sixty-two years after Gonzalo Freixes fled Cuba with his family, UCLA finally gave him a chance to return. When arriving to host a global immersion course in the country, Freixes, an associate dean and adjunct professor of accounting in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said he had a nostalgic return to his native country, which he realized had developed little since his departure. Read more...
Photo: Pictured are students participating in the immersion course in Cuba. The course, which was hosted by Anderson School of Management Associate Dean Gonzalo Freixes, aimed to teach students about the opening of private industry in the country. (Courtesy of Lucy Allard)
This post was updated Jan. 9 at 9:36 p.m. UCLA acquired the former Westside Pavilion mall Dec. 27 with plans to make it into the UCLA Research Park. The former mall space, which is two miles from the UCLA campus, will host the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy at UCLA and the UCLA Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, according to a campuswide email sent Wednesday by Chancellor Gene Block. In January 2019, developer Hudson Pacific Properties and real estate investment trust company Macerich announced Google would be leasing the former mall, which is located on West Pico Boulevard, to convert the space into an office campus for the company. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. The former Westside Pavilion mall, which is set to be acquired by UCLA, was originally planned as an office campus for Google. (Daily Bruin file photo)
