The Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia encouraged young people to get involved in politics and use social media as a political tool at a Wednesday UCLA event. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia is pictured. Mejia, who acts as the accountant for the city of LA and is responsible for the financial audits of ever city department, said he hopes more young people get involved in politics. (Victor Simoes/Daily Bruin)
Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, died Jan. 1. She was 57. Kakoulli was the first female professor hired by UCLA’s materials science and engineering department, according to an obituary posted by UCLA Global Antiquity. Read more...
Photo: Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, is pictured. Kakoulli – whose research focused on using materials engineering techniques to preserve cultural artifacts – died Jan. 1 at 57. (Courtesy of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution calling upon UCLA administrators to review faculty with connections to Jeffrey Epstein at its Feb. 3 meeting. USAC is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Read more...
Waking up at the crack of dawn is routine for a group of swimmers at UCLA’s Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. About 20 members of the Bruin Masters Swim Club – a UCLA Recreation program for adult faculty, staff and students – start their days with swim sets at 5:45 a.m every Monday through Friday. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Bruin Masters Swim Club — a UCLA Recreation program for adult faculty, staff and students — swim at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. The swim club, which was founded in 1995, includes former Olympians and UCLA professors alike. (Chenrui Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Researchers celebrated the role of numerical data in scientific research at a Jan. 26 event at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. The Lange Symposium on Computational Statics and Biomedical Data Science – hosted by the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine and Human Genetics – invited six speakers from across the country to discuss their research. Read more...
Photo: The Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, the site of the sixth annual Lange Symposium, is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Feb. 8 at 10:12 p.m. The Center for Accessible Education’s new student portal makes requesting accommodations more convenient, despite an initial learning curve, students said. Read more...
Photo: The Center for Accessible Education’s website introducing myCAE, its new student portal, is pictured. myCAE – which was implemented in early January – allows students to schedule appointments with their disability specialists and manage their accommodation requests. (Gabby Yang/Daily Bruin)
UCLA is generating a nearly $400 million annual structural budget deficit, according to a Jan. 29 Academic Senate preliminary report. The report – created by the Academic Senate’s Council on Planning and Budget – said data provided by UCLA administrators showed that the university is projected to run a combined $829.7 million deficit across the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years if it has not taken and does not take any corrective action. Read more...
Photo: The Academic Senate Council on Planning and Budget’s 14-page report on UCLA’s budget is pictured. The council found that UCLA is generating a nearly $400 million annual deficit. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
