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International students face challenges taking midterms during remote instruction

This post was updated Nov. 13 at 11:16 p.m. to address a transcription error in Bakur Madini’s quote. The COVID-19 pandemic and UCLA’s subsequent shift to remote learning has affected how some international students have approached their education. Read more...

Photo: With different accommodation policies across departments, international students are losing out on adequate exam and class environments and proper test preparation. (Illustration by Nitya Tak/ Daily Bruin)


Students unable to vote in 2020 election share thoughts on outcome, president-elect

Areli Gonzalez danced with joy when she heard former Vice President Joe Biden became the president-elect of the United States. The fourth-year psychology student, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient, said she celebrated with her parents and posted the news on social media. Read more...

Photo: Michaela Kim (pictured left), Areli Gonzalez (pictured second to left), Arsh Gupta (pictured second to right) and Oscar Basuyaux (pictured right) said they were relieved when they discovered former Vice President Joe Biden became the president-elect of the United States. Some said they have hope for a better life in the U.S. (From left to right: Kari Lau/Daily Bruin senior staff, courtesy of Emily MacInnis, Kari Lau/Daily Bruin senior staff, Kari Lau/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Hundreds of protesters march to Azerbaijani Consulate demanding justice for Armenia

A group of Armenian Americans marched to the Azerbaijani embassy after a week-long hunger strike to draw attention to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Members of the Armenian Youth Federation, a global Armenian organization, set up tents adorned with Armenian flags and banners on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Veteran Avenue on Sunday in response to the escalating armed conflict. Read more...

Photo: Members of the Armenian Youth Federation hosted a week-long hunger strike and a march to draw attention to the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin senior staff)




UCLA professor shares 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for black hole breakthroughs

This post was updated Oct. 11 at 9:51 p.m. A UCLA professor won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics after she helped discover a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, announced the Nobel Prize Organisation on Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: Andrea Ghez, a physics and astronomy professor, won the 2020 Nobel prize in physics for her contributions to the discovery of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. She is the fourth woman to win a physics Nobel Prize and the eighth UCLA professor to win a Nobel Prize. (Courtesy of Christopher Dibble/UCLA Newsroom)




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