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December 2, 1:11 am

UCLA Dining uses food waste audits to aid in sustainability mission, awareness

On a November day in Feast at Rieber, students bearing nearly empty plates to the dish drop-off to be washed instead waited their turn to have their leftover food weighed. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Sustainability Committee, founded in 2004 to increase environmental sustainability on campus, has been auditing the food waste created by residential dining halls for the current and past academic years. Students turning in their dishes waited to have their leftover food weighed and recorded by volunteers during audits Nov. 18 and Nov. 20 at the De Neve and Feast at Reiber dining halls. (Daily Bruin file photo)

News, UC

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December 2, 1:09 am

Student leaders call for revision of UC Board of Regents sexual misconduct policy

Sexual misconduct allegations have prompted University of California student leaders to call for policy changes among the governing board of the University system. Members of student organizations across the UC said in a statement released Nov. Read more...

Photo: Rebecca Ora, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, accused Regent George Kieffer of grasping her thigh at a dinner with other UC students prior to the November 2014 regents meeting. At the November 2019 regents meeting, Ora called for Kieffer to step down and for greater oversight of the board. (Daily Bruin file photo)

News, Student Government

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December 2, 1:08 am

USAC decision restricts direct access of student organizations to surplus funds

Student organizations will not be able to directly apply for undergraduate student government surplus funds, following a council decision in November. The Undergraduate Students Association Council modified last year’s allocation process for its surplus funds at its Nov. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council decided to restrict applications for its surplus funds to USAC entities, committees and organizations in an effort to streamline the money distribution. (Daily Bruin file photo)

News, Science & Health

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December 2, 12:13 am

Six UCLA professors honored as fellows of renowned scientific society AAAS

The world’s largest scientific society has selected six UCLA faculty to join its 2019 cohort of fellows. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, an interdisciplinary organization known for publishing the academic journal Science, selected UCLA faculty members David Glanzman, Yang Yang, Paula Diaconescu, Stephen Smale, Margaret Jacob and Thomas Mason as fellows, joining 437 others chosen by the AAAS this year, according to a university press release. Read more...

Photo: UCLA faculty members (clockwise from top left) Margaret Jacob, Yang Yang, Paula Diaconescu, Thomas Mason, David Glanzman and Stephen Smale were chosen as 2019 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)

A Closer Look, International, News

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November 27, 12:51 am

Study finds short-term stays in polluted cities negatively impact health

Visiting highly polluted cities even for a short time may impact your health, according to a new collaborative study between UCLA and Peking University. The researchers tracked health indicators of 26 healthy, nonsmoking Los Angeles residents before, during and after they spent 10 weeks in Beijing during the summers of 2014 and 2015, according to the study. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles residents who visited Beijing for 10 weeks during the summers of 2014 and 2015 exhibited poorer health as a result of their stay, according to a study led by UCLA and Peking University researchers. (Daily Bruin file photo)

Campus, National, News

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November 27, 12:45 am

Lettuce recalled from dining halls after E. coli outbreak

No romaine remains in UCLA Dining Services after another E. coli outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that they are recalling romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, due to potential contamination. Read more...

Photo: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Food and Housing Association recalled romaine lettuce Tuesday. It has received 67 reports of E. coli infection nationwide. (Daily Bruin file photo)


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