Valeree Catangay grew up in Long Beach, California, near the intersection of two major freeways where tens of thousands of trucks drive by every day. When she visited Long Beach to experience pollution in the community firsthand, she saw how ground travel can have a detrimental effect on the environment. Read more...
Photo: Valeree Catangay, is a fourth-year environmental science student and winner of the Brower Youth Award for Environmental Leadership. (Courtesy of Valeree Catangay)
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Why do we eat for pleasure, instead of for necessity? Read more...
Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Daily Bruin)
Students in the UCLA Career Center hosted new events to inform their peers about internship and job opportunities. The UCLA Career Peers program, which launched last year, works under the Career Center to inform students about internship and job opportunities. Read more...
Photo: The Career Peers program holds drop-in hours at the Career Center on a first-come, first-served basis to provide career assistance and counseling to students. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Student groups with different political affiliations are preparing voter registration drives and trips to swing districts as the midterm elections draw closer and local congressional races heat up. Read more...
Photo: Former president Barack Obama spoke at an event for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Anaheim two weeks ago, where he endorsed the Democratic nominees in the swing districts. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Austin Tedman read his classmate’s essay carefully and began meticulously grading the paper. Although the program doesn’t require it, he typed out a carefully worded justification for each one of his assessments. Read more...
Photo: Many UCLA students feel that CPR does not enhance their understanding of class material. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Students can now pay a flat rate for Lyft rides to places within a few miles of UCLA. UCLA has partnered with ride-share service Lyft to offer a $4.99 flat rate for rides within 5 miles of UCLA properties. Read more...
UCLA fraternities that are members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference will be responsible for enforcing a ban on hard alcohol from their events and houses over the course of the next year. Read more...
Photo: North-American Interfraternity Conference member fraternities at UCLA will have one year to enforce a national organization ban on hard alcohol. (Photo Illustration by Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
