DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — The Daily Bruin won two National Pacemaker Awards on Saturday for the nation’s best college newspaper and best college online news outlet for the 2015-2016 year. Read more...
Photo: The Daily Bruin won its fifth Newspaper Pacemaker and its second Online Pacemaker awards at the Associated Collegiate Press Convention. (Sam Hoff/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct. 22 at 1:30 p.m. Students gathered in Meyerhoff Park Friday for the Send Silence Packing display. The display, organized by the UCLA chapter of Active Minds, featured empty backpacks lined on steps to raise awareness for suicide prevention. Read more...
Photo: The Send Silence Packing display featured empty backpacks placed on steps to represent the number of college students that commit suicide each year. (Coco Wang/Daily Bruin)
An undergraduate student government commission partnered with Herstory, a social media project, with the goal of empowering women on campus. The USAC Academic Affairs Commission and Herstory introduced the Women Empowerment Campaign on Oct. Read more...
The image of the rust-colored robot, Wall-E, sitting on a pile of trash, was projected onto a large screen as a speaker addressed her audience. The world in 2050 will likely resemble the Pixar movie, she told them. Read more...
Photo: Katherine Sullivan, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, spoke at the first UCLA College Luskin Endowment Symposium Tuesday. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo Editor)
This post was updated on Oct. 20 at 4:45 p.m. The Geffen Academy at UCLA opened applications for students earlier this month. Applications for incoming sixth, seventh and ninth grade students opened Oct. Read more...
Photo: Geffen Academy at UCLA held an information session about the application process for parents and students this month. (Diana Luna/Daily Bruin)
I-Chun Liu’s final goal as a UCLA student was to study for the last finals he would ever take. The only problem was that all his go-to study spots were packed – loud and noisy without an outlet or seat in sight. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alum I-Chun Liu launched PlacetoStudy, a website that helps students find nearby study locations, this summer. (Courtesy of I-Chun Liu)
InterVarsity, a national evangelical college campus organization, has told its 1,300 staff members they will be “involuntarily terminated” if they personally support gay marriage or otherwise disagree with its newly detailed positions on sexual orientation starting on Nov. Read more...
