Student government endorsed a high-rise housing project in Westwood on Tuesday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted unanimously, with four abstentions, to support The Agora, a proposed 16-story high-rise project on Hilgard Avenue. Read more...
Photo: The Agora is a proposed 16-story housing development on Hilgard Avenue. The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to endorse the project Tuesday. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Resident physicians at UCLA will continue bargaining with the university over their salaries, an incomplete housing stipend and other benefits after more than four months of negotiation. Read more...
Photo: UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine administrators promised a $5,000 stipend and allotted an extra $1,250 per stipend to cover taxes. However, psychiatry resident Michael Mensah said in the email chain he consulted an experienced payroll manager and concluded nearly $3,500, not $1,250, were needed to cover taxes. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...
Five interdisciplinary and community-based service teams received the inaugural UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families grants to support research for youth and families in the child welfare system, according to a university press release. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Pitzker Center awarded grants to interdisciplinary and community-service based groups to their support research on issues such as preventing foster care, using media to improve perceptions of foster care and improving outcomes for families experiencing homelessness and child welfare intervention. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Three UCLA professors were awarded fellowships to continue research in their respective fields Tuesday. Denis Chetverikov, Yongjie Hu and Aaswath Raman were among 126 United States and Canadian researchers who received the 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship. Read more...
Photo: UCLA professors Denis Chetverikov, Yongjie Hu and Aaswath Raman received $70,000 from the 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship for their research. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
Quarter system got you down? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Bruin Tea is a series investigating student questions and petty concerns about UCLA. Complaint: Why do the UCLA gyms close so early on weekends, yet are open 24/7 during weekdays? Read more...
Photo: Increased hours for UCLA gyms would require more funding for staff hours and utility expenses. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Poor sleep among the elderly may be a result of declining brain cell growth and development, according to UCLA researchers. Researchers in the lab of Noor Alam, an adjunct professor of medicine at UCLA and a research physiologist in the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, described how declining neural development may cause difficulty falling asleep or staying awake in aging individuals in a study published February. Read more...
