The Los Angeles City Council will vote Tuesday on authorizing Mayor Eric Garcetti and an independent committee tasked with organizing the city’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, an event that would make use of four UCLA venues and residence halls on the Hill. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles City Council’s vote on Tuesday for the bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics may open UCLA venues to the games. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA Housing forwarded incoming Hill and university apartment residents’ contact information to an insurance company if students did not opt out through emailed surveys by Aug. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Housing offered renters insurance from GradGuard to student residents on the Hill and in university apartments through an opt-out survey system via email. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Student groups will be able fill out one form and apply to multiple funding sources sometime in the next school year when the undergraduate student government launches a centralized student group funding application. Read more...
Members of the Westwood community expressed mixed emotions as the Senate plans to vote on a nuclear deal with Iran that would lift U.S. economic sanctions in exchange for a limited Iranian nuclear program. Read more...
Jean Paul Santos spent nine months designing and building a lightweight antenna he could hold in his hand. Although the thin, computer chip-like device is smaller than an iPhone, the antenna has the potential to improve interplanetary communication between Mars and Earth. Read more...
Photo: Jean Paul Santos, a graduate student in electrical engineering, holds an antenna prototype that could lead to direct communication between the Mars rover and Earth in the 2020 mission.
Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides student services and activities that the university does not fund. It oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board, campus services and enterprises. Read more...
University of California President Janet Napolitano appointed Monday a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz as director of the UC Observatories, a research unit conducting work on multiple campuses. Read more...
Photo: Claire Max, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at UC Santa Cruz who served as interim director of the UC Observatories, was appointed director. (University of California Office of the President)
