The undergraduate student government voted tonight to create an endowment with $100,000 of the leftover money from last year’s council by a vote of 9-1-2. Read more...
News, Student Government
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January 15, 10:13 pm
USAC to use surplus money to create endowment fund
News
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January 15, 1:07 am
Majority rule: Democratic control could alter California’s education, tax policies
The California Legislature started a new session last week, with a two-thirds Democratic majority in both the state Assembly and the state Senate for the first time in more than a century, which experts say may shift politics in the state and in turn impact the state’s funding for higher education. Read more...
Crime, News
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January 15, 1:00 am
Crimewatch: Jan. 15
News, Science & Health
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January 15, 12:55 am
New UCLA course stresses environmental communication
A new class being offered this quarter at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will teach students how to integrate new media – like blogs, videos and podcasts – into environmental science. Read more...
Photo: The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s new class explores the intersection between the environment, journalism and new media.
News
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January 15, 12:05 am
Al-Jazeera buys Current TV to establish new channel
Current TV, a progressive media outlet that has employed numerous UCLA alumni since its founding in 2005, was recently bought by Al-Jazeera, an award-winning news organization in the Middle East that is owned by the government of Qatar. Read more...
Campus, News
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January 15, 12:01 am
Former UCLA professor enjoyed Russian poetry, inspiring students
Vladimir Fedorovich Markov, a professor emeritus in the Slavic languages and literatures department and a Russian literature scholar, died Jan. 1 at his home in Los Angeles, after a long period of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Read more...
Campus, News
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January 14, 2:20 am
Undergraduate Student Writing Center opens third location
The new location will offer sessions with Peer Learning Facilitators – students hired to work with other undergraduates in one-on-one sessions and teach them how to do more in-depth research because of the location in the library. Read more...
Photo: Third-year communications and political science student Tina Tucker assists Zhihao Zhao, a first-year business economics and psychology student, with writing assignments.