Wednesday, February 18

Student-created app matches strangers for meals on the Hill

Students who find themselves eating alone on the Hill have a new way to find a dining partner. With the Bruin Dine app, which was launched by three UCLA students, students are matched with a stranger for a meal. Read more...

Photo: UCLA students Dustin Wong (left), a fourth-year biology student, Ram Sivasundaram (center) and Victor Wu (right), fourth-year economics students, created Bruin Dine, a new app that helps students find people to eat with at dining halls on the Hill. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)


UCLA Transportation to allocate parking permits for transfer students

UCLA Transportation will now allocate 12 parking permits every quarter for transfer students. The undergraduate student government Office of the Transfer Student Representative worked with UCLA Transportation last spring to secure a total of 36 permits per year, beginning this quarter. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Transportation will now allocate 36 parking permits every year to transfer students, starting this quarter. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)


Photo: Minority Report draws attention to historic racism and inequality

UCLA held Minority Report, a theatrical performance that aimed to educate students about diversity and race relations, on Tuesday. The department of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs held the event from 5 p.m. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs held a theatrical performance at the Broad Art Center Tuesday to raise social awareness on racism and other issues of diversity. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)


UCLA announces new location for graduate student fitness center

This post was updated Nov. 1 at 7:15 p.m. UCLA officials announced a new location for the Kinross Recreation Center on Tuesday. UCLA will build the new fitness center in the northwest end of Parking Lot 36, by Veteran Avenue and Kinross Avenue, said Michael Deluca, assistant vice chancellor of campus life, and Wendy Windsor, director of UCLA Recreation, in an email to graduate students. Read more...

Photo: UCLA officials announced the new site for the Kinross Recreation Center, which was previously housed in the Kinross Building. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Social science master’s program to launch in fall 2017

Students can now apply to a new nine-month-long social science’s master’s degree program. The first Master of Social Sciences Program, or MaSS, will begin fall 2017 and end in June 2018, according to an email announcement sent by UCLA Social Sciences interim dean Laura Gómez. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA social sciences department started a new multidisciplinary research program for students to enable them to get a social sciences master’s degree. (Daily Bruin file photo)


English professor’s past struggles help him empathize with students

Blake Allmendinger would go up to his room when he was a child and escape to the world of mystery novels every time his parents began to fight. Read more...

Photo: English professor Blake Allmendinger said literature helped him cope with his struggles growing up, when he had to deal with a turbulent family life. Here, he is photographed in his office. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UCLA researchers develop low-cost pollution-detection systems

UCLA engineering researchers developed a low-cost mobile imaging system that detects and quantifies air pollution. The Ozcan Research Group designed C-Air, a particle detector capable of sizing pollutants in a sample of air. Read more...

Photo: Yichen Wu is a doctoral student in electrical engineering and the primary researcher on the C-Air Project, a particle detector that calculates the amount of pollution in air. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)



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