This post was updated Nov. 15 at 6:50 p.m. The dean of the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies said promoting education is the key to disrupting inequality in a rapidly globalizing world. Read more...
Photo: Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco spoke at an event as part of UCLA’s International Education Week on campus Tuesday. The event was attended by a number of deans as well as representatives from Afghanistan and Thailand and members of the diplomatic corps. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin)
UCLA held its annual Veterans Day Ceremony in front of the Student Activities Center on Friday. Featured speakers at the event included Chancellor Gene Block and two U.S. Read more...
Photo: (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin)
UCLA researchers determined sperm carrying a Y chromosome swim differently than sperm carrying an X chromosome. In a study published October, Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his lab constructed a microscope that allows for the 3D tracking of small moving cells like sperm cells. Read more...
Photo: On the left, the pattern of movement for a sperm with an X chromosome, which will create a female fetus. On the right, a slightly different pattern of movement for a sperm with a Y chromosome, which will create a male fetus. (Courtesy of Mustafa Ugur Daloglu et. al./Nature Publishing Group)
Westwood officials announced the city’s participation in a parking revenue program and future expansions of the Hammer Museum at a Friday meeting. The Westwood Village Improvement Association reviewed last year’s programs and services, and next year’s plans for the Village during its annual meeting in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum. Read more...
Photo: The Westwood Village Improvement Association held its annual meeting in the Hammer Museum Friday and reviewed last year’s programs and services, and next year’s plans for the Village. (Tess Mcmullin/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA Ph.D. candidate said the increased voter turnout in last Tuesday’s midterm election was due to greater enthusiasm among voters. The UCLA Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, along with the Bruin Political Union, co-hosted the event “Midterm Elections: What Happened and Why Does It Matter?” to explain the trends and patterns in the election results. Read more...
Photo: Brian Hamel, a political science Ph.D. candidate, said he sees the midterm results as a sign of a new trend of larger voter turnout, and expects even greater Democrat voter turnout in 2020. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
Low-income women can get help on how to set up their own bank accounts, read nutrition labels and more through a UCLA Health program. Women’s Health & Money @ Work, one of the core programs of the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Education and Resource Center, aims to educate low-to-moderate-income women in Los Angeles County on financial literacy and nutrition. Read more...
Photo: Women’s Health & Money @ Work, one of the core programs of UCLA’s Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Education and Research Center, aims to educate low-to-moderate-income women in Los Angeles County on financial literacy and nutrition education. (Alice Naland/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 13 at 2:23 p.m. UCLA students and faculty said President Donald Trump’s proposal to abolish birthright citizenship could inflame anti-immigrant rhetoric and is most likely doomed to fail. Read more...
Photo: President Donald Trump said last week that he wanted to create an executive order that denied citizenship to those born in the United States whose parents were not citizens. (Creative Commons photo by Gage Skidmore)
