This post was updated May 15 at 2:04 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council is launching a COVID-19 relief fund that will distribute more than $120,000 to undergraduate students financially impacted by the pandemic. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council will distribute more than $120,000 in direct checks to support students who are struggling financially during the pandemic.
The slow vaccine rollout in the state and country has made it difficult to carry out vaccination phases, a student health official said at a COVID-19 vaccine panel Thursday. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council held a COVID-19 vaccine panel Thursday to answer students’ questions about vaccinations. (Courtesy of Sandra Ocampo)
The Black Resource Center will be located in Kerckhoff Hall and will continue offering remote services in winter quarter after launching remotely in the fall. The center will open its physical office once it is safe to do so, administrators Amanda Finzi-Smith, Monroe Gorden and Denise Pacheco said in an emailed statement. Read more...
Photo: UCLA appointed an interim-director and selected Kerkhoff Hall as the location for the Black Resource Center. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Feb. 15 at 09:06 p.m. New procedural changes aim to make undergraduate student government elections more accessible, student officials said. The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously approved several changes in January to the undergraduate elections code, though some council members said some of the changes may not be necessary or effective. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved changes to the elections code that aim to improve accessibility in the virtual 2021 elections season. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
UCLA established an interdisciplinary European studies department to allow students to study European languages and culture in greater depth. The university merged several of its European language departments – including Germanic languages, French and Francophone studies, Scandinavian and Italian – to create the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA Newsroom announced Monday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA recently established an interdisciplinary European studies department, UCLA Newsroom announced Monday. The department plans to offer students European language instruction and historical and cultural courses. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA is testing wastewater from residential dorms for COVID-19 to improve contact tracing on the Hill. The UCLA Office of Environment, Health & Safety began testing wastewater from De Neve Plaza and Hedrick Summit in January, according to an email from UCLA Housing sent to students living in university housing. Read more...
Photo: UCLA began a wastewater testing program for COVID-19 in some university dorms in January. (Daily Bruin file photo)
An undergraduate student government fund launched a pilot program in mid-January that will fund students focusing on sustainability on campus. The pilot student support fund will give up to $300 in either UCLA Store gift cards or honorarium payments to individual students who are working in unpaid sustainability work at UCLA, said Sachi Cooper, the Undergraduate Students Association Council facilities commissioner and the committee chair for The Green Initiative Fund. Read more...
Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)
