A little-known committee comprising 12 UCLA students and faculty members presents Chancellor Gene Block with recommendations on how to allocate about $2 million in student fees. Read more...
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January 5, 7:41 am
Department offers Spanish, Portuguese placement exam online
Students can now take both Spanish and Portuguese placement exams online, eliminating scheduling conflicts and allowing more students to attempt the exams. Juana Escobar, the undergraduate advisor for the Spanish and Portuguese department, said the department implemented the change because officials were concerned about meeting the high demand for the placements tests. Read more...
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January 4, 12:12 am
ASUCLA to create temporary prayer, meditation space in Ackerman Union
Associated Students UCLA will redesign a lounge in Ackerman Union this quarter to create a temporary nondenominational space where students and faculty can pray and meditate. Read more...
Photo: ASUCLA plans to reserve a temporary space in Ackerman Union for nondenominational prayer. (Efren Piñon/Daily Bruin)
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January 4, 12:06 am
Lavender Health Alliance aims to promote LGBT-sensitive health care
As a first-year student, Jeffrey Wong often felt isolated by a lack of support available to him and other lesbian, gay, bisexual and trangender students in math and science fields. Read more...
Photo: The Lavender Health Alliance aims to give lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students who are interested in science, technology, engineering and medical fields academic and social support. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Campus, News, Science & Health
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December 22, 7:17 pm
UCLA Grand Challenge reveals plan for environmental sustainability
The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge project released a report Wednesday detailing its research plan to make Los Angeles more environmentally sustainable by 2050. The five-year plan outlines goals such as powering Los Angeles County entirely with renewable energy, switching to locally-sourced water supplies and increasing native biodiversity and ecosystem health. Read more...
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December 22, 6:08 pm
UCLA professor Patrick Harran loses nomination as AAAS fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, voted Tuesday to rescind UCLA professor Patrick Harran’s nomination to be a fellow. The association rescinded his nomination after learning the Los Angeles District Attorney filed felony charges in 2011 against Harran, a chemistry and biochemistry professor, for labor code violations that led to the death of one of his lab technicians. Read more...
Photo: (UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
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December 17, 5:57 pm
Vice chancellor criticizes student’s anti-Semitic Facebook comments
A UCLA official criticized anti-Semitic comments made by a UCLA student on Facebook in an email statement sent to the student body Wednesday. Janina Montero, vice chancellor for student affairs, sent the email after a pro-Israel group on campus condemned an undergraduate student for a series of comments posted on the Facebook status of Jewish actress and UCLA alumna Mayim Bialik. Read more...