Wednesday, February 11

UCLA advises students to refrain from traveling over spring break

UCLA is encouraging students, faculty and staff to limit travel and outings during the upcoming spring break to minimize the spread of COVID-19. People should limit travel unless it is essential, Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck and former Academic Senate Chair Michael Meranze said in a campuswide email Monday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA administrators are discouraging all students, faculty and staff from traveling during spring break to limit the spread of COVID-19. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)


Instructors incorporate interactive Zoom features to facilitate student engagement

This post was updated March 7 at 9:29 p.m. When a student last quarter told Debra Pires they struggled to pay attention in her biology class, Pires immediately started searching for ways to leverage Zoom’s interactive features to increase student engagement during lecture. Read more...

Photo: UCLA instructors have found creative ways to engage their students – some of whom have experienced a decline in motivation amid the pandemic – during Zoom lectures. (Kari Lau/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Gene Block, vice chancellors discuss COVID-19 vaccines, UCPD, CAPS and more

Chancellor Gene Block meets with the Daily Bruin Editorial Board every quarter to discuss issues affecting campus and to explain administrative policies. At the Feb. 25 meeting, Block was joined by Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Monroe Gorden Jr., Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck, Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Anna Spain Bradley and Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications Mary Osako. Read more...

Photo: (Screen capture by Sydney Kovach/Daily Bruin senior staff, photo illustration by Ashley Kenney/Assistant Photo editor. The only illustration element is the correction of an inverted UCLA logo.)


$1 million donation will support patient assistance programs at UCLA Health

UCLA plans to use a $1 million donation to address changing needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, UCLA Health staff said. UCLA Health received the donation from Ken Suslow, a founding managing partner at Sandbridge Capital LLC, a private investment firm, and his wife Linda Suslow in November. Read more...

Photo: Ken and Linda Suslow donated $1 million to UCLA Health to create an emergency assistance fund and support the Mattel Children’s Hospital. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)


USAC to vote on fund to pay future undocumented council members

The art for this post was updated March 2 at 2:55 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council is considering a fund that will allow undocumented USAC council members who lose their work authorization to continue receiving their salary, in response to an incident in 2020 where an undocumented council member went without pay for around seven weeks. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council will vote this week on a proposal to establish a fund to pay future undocumented council members who do not have work authorization. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)


Amendment gives elections board more autonomy over USAC elections calendar

An amendment will give the board that runs the student government elections more independence over the elections calendar. The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution Feb. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted in February to amend the elections code to give the elections board chair more autonomy in determining the elections calendar. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA’s new autonomous delivery robots

Associated Students UCLA began using Starship robots in January to autonomously deliver food throughout campus. While plans to bring the delivery bots onto campus began before the pandemic, they now offer a contactless way for people to get food around UCLA. Read more...



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