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 are rip currents and why are they important? Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 8 at 4:51 p.m. Playing music with friends at sunset on a Malibu mountaintop can be described in many ways. For Caley Versfelt, the best word to use is “funtastic.” “It’s a word that I made up that’s fantastic and fun together,” Versfelt said. Read more...
Photo: Alumni band Hello Noon partnered with Special Olympics Southern California for their newest music video, which has received over 40,000 views. The band and Special Olympics members said their favorite moment during filming came when they got lost and decided spontaneously to film themselves playing their instruments on a mountaintop. (Courtesy of Stephen Spies)
Undergraduate students will receive free blue books and Scantrons as part of a student government-led initiative. The Undergraduate Students Association Council allocated $15,000 to Associated Students UCLA as part of USAC President Robert Watson’s affordability initiative July 17. Read more...
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UCLA offered admission to almost 19,000 students for the 2019-2020 year, a dip of nearly 3,000 students from last year, according to a university press release Monday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA admitted almost 19,000 students for the 2019-2020 academic year, a dip of nearly 3,000 students from the previous year. The university’s admission rate dropped from about 15.7% in 2018 to about 14% in 2019. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UC Berkeley has been removed from the U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings after notifying the media outlet that it misreported data. The university, which was the No. Read more...
Photo: UC Berkeley has been removed from the U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings after notifying the media outlet that it misreported its two-year average alumni giving rate, which accounts for 5% of the overall score for the rankings. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated July 24 at 3:14 p.m. A former UCLA football player was arrested Thursday in connection to an alleged attempt to rob a Riverside County medical marijuana dispensary in 2016, several outlets report. Read more...
Photo: Craig Lee, a former running back for UCLA, was arrested July 18 for his alleged complicity in a 2016 armed robbery of a medical marijuana dispensary in Riverside County. He has been charged with one count of attempted second-degree robbery and one count of attempted murder. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The University of California Board of Regents appointed a new executive vice president for UC Health on Thursday, according to a University press release. Carrie Byington, a clinician, educator and researcher, was appointed to help lead UC Health’s five academic medical centers and 18 health professional schools across the UCs. Read more...
Photo: Carrie Byington was appointed as the new executive vice president of UC Health by the University of California Board of Regents on Thursday (Courtesy of Texas A&M University Health Science Center).
