This post was updated Nov. 15 at 6:50 p.m. The dean of the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies said promoting education is the key to disrupting inequality in a rapidly globalizing world. Read more...
Photo: Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco spoke at an event as part of UCLA’s International Education Week on campus Tuesday. The event was attended by a number of deans as well as representatives from Afghanistan and Thailand and members of the diplomatic corps. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin)
UCLA held its annual Veterans Day Ceremony in front of the Student Activities Center on Friday. Featured speakers at the event included Chancellor Gene Block and two U.S. Read more...
Photo: (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA Ph.D. candidate said the increased voter turnout in last Tuesday’s midterm election was due to greater enthusiasm among voters. The UCLA Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, along with the Bruin Political Union, co-hosted the event “Midterm Elections: What Happened and Why Does It Matter?” to explain the trends and patterns in the election results. Read more...
Photo: Brian Hamel, a political science Ph.D. candidate, said he sees the midterm results as a sign of a new trend of larger voter turnout, and expects even greater Democrat voter turnout in 2020. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 14 at 1:20 p.m. The Brazilian minister of culture said artists and innovators are the professionals and backbone of the new creative economy at an event on campus Thursday. Read more...
Photo: The Brazilian minister of culture visited UCLA’s Anderson School of Management to talk about the role creativity and innovation have in growing the economy. (Eli Countryman/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Nov. 11 at 4:23 p.m. UCLA resumed all outdoor recreation and sports activities Sunday after canceling them earlier due to poor air quality while a fire burns south of Simi Valley. Read more...
Photo: UCLA is advising all residents to remain indoors due to poor air quality on account of the Woolsey fire, which started Thursday and has spread through Los Angeles and Ventura counties. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
Tuesday’s midterm election saw a 537 percent increase of in-person student voters from the 2014 election. Pollworkers said 4,669 students turned out to vote at the five most student-heavy precincts near or at UCLA for Tuesday’s election. Read more...
Photo: Pollworkers said 4,669 students turned out to vote at the five most student-heavy precincts near or at UCLA for Tuesday’s election, a 537 percent increase from the 2014 election. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated July 28, 2020 at 4:24 p.m. Hundreds of UCLA student workers have not been paid for over a month due to problems with a new payroll system. Read more...
Photo: The new University of California payroll system, UCPath, has failed to pay student workers for seven weeks. Union representatives say the lack of pay has imposed unfair out-of-pocket costs on members. Hundreds of students have been affected by the errors in the new payroll system. (Daily Bruin file photo)
