UCLA Library has partnered with a large digital library to provide students and faculty with online access to more than 40% of the materials held in its collections. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Library will be offer millions of its books online through the digital research collaboration HathiTrust. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Graduate students elected new leaders for the 2020-2021 academic year. Four candidates ran unopposed for the four positions in the Graduate Students Association elections, which ended April 13. Read more...
Photo: JP Santos, Letty Trevino, Neda Ashtari and Musibau Francis Jimoh (clockwise from top left) won the four seats on the 2020-2021 Graduate Students Association executive council. (Courtesy of Arpita Iddya)
This post was updated April 18 at 4:11 p.m. UCLA lit up iconic campus buildings Thursday night in the color blue to honor workers fighting COVID-19. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall and Powell Library were lit up blue Thursday night to show support for healthcare workers, first responders and other essential workers combatting the coronavirus pandemic. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)
As medical school students participate in Zoom classes, some have begun to question the outcome of their training and their preparedness to practice medicine in the real world. Read more...
Photo: The outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted medical school students at the David Geffen School of Medicine in more than a few ways. Students now find themselves with extended examination periods, analyzing cadavers online and worrying about the states of their residencies. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Los Angeles County will subsidize rent and expand tenant protection using emergency funding, according to a plan approved Tuesday. The program aims to provide subsidies of a maximum of $1,000 per month for up to three months for families whose income is impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Students in on-campus housing can simply end their housing contract, but students living in off-campus apartments may not have an easy way out of their leases. Given the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, state and local governments have enacted some protections and support for tenants. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated April 17 at 10:23 p.m. A recent report from the UCLA Voting Rights Project recommends that legislators and election officials start considering a vote-by-mail system to preserve Americans’ right to vote in the upcoming primary and general elections. Read more...
Photo: A paper from the UCLA Voting Rights Project is recommending that legislators adopt a vote-by-mail system in order to ensure that people can continue to vote throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Some states across the United States have postponed primary elections because of concerns over the pandemic. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Last week, students from the UCLA School of Nursing had their first online simulation classes. Students spent 12 hours on computers performing a series of tasks on simulated patients under direction of the faculty, replacing in-person learning. Read more...
Photo: Students from the UCLA School of Nursing have begun their first online classes, spending hours working with computer-simulated patients instead of working in-person. This measure stems from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has made it difficult to place nursing students in hospitals. (Daily Bruin file photo)
