The Williams Institute – a public policy research institute at the UCLA School of Law – recently released a report highlighting the disparities that people with minority identities face in higher education settings. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Law is pictured. The School of Law’s Williams Institute recently released the findings of a report that sought to shed light on inequitable treatment faced by students of minority identities in higher education. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: What is Candida auris, and how does it infect people? Read more...
A recent UCLA-led study revealed drought’s disproportionate impacts on urban vegetation in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in the coastal greater Los Angeles area. According to the study, lower-income neighborhoods, many of which have disproportionately large Black and Hispanic populations, have lost more greenness than affluent neighborhoods during dry periods. Read more...
Photo: A car drives by vegetation. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
The iClicker program subscription will be free for students and instructors beginning June 20, the Bruin Learn Center of Excellence announced March 28. iClickers are an interactive polling tool utilized in many UCLA classrooms. Read more...
Photo: An iClicker (pictured). (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council partially approved a request from the Cultural Affairs Commission and Campus Events Commission to use surplus funding to cover costs associated with Bruin Bash. Read more...
Photo: A performer at Bruin Bash 2022 is pictured. The Campus Events Commission and Cultural Affairs Commission, who co-host the event, requested more than $100,00 of surplus funding to cover expenses. (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)
Dozens of UC employees gathered outside a UC Board of Regents meeting at Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to call for higher wages. The rally, put on by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 – which represents more than 30,000 UC service workers and skilled craft workers – called for minimum wages of $25 per hour, said Frank Valdez, the strategic communications director for AFSCME Local 3299. Read more...
Photo: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 union members protest outside Wednesday’s UC Board of Regents meeting. They called for a $25 an hour minimum wage for University employees. (Shengfeng Chien/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated April 13 at 11:28 p.m. Graduating Bruins will hear from UCLA alumnus and famous actor and director Randall Park at the UCLA College commencement on June 16, UCLA announced Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Randall Park stands for a picture at Sundance Film Festival. (Vivian Xu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
