Homelessness jumped 20 percent in the City of Los Angeles this year, according to numbers released by an independent agency Wednesday. Los Angeles volunteers counted 34,189 homeless individuals in the city in 2017 compared to 28,464 in 2016, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Read more...
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June 2, 1:36 am
UCLA students continue studying abroad despite recent terror attacks
Terrorist attacks have not deterred some students who have previously studied abroad or plan to study abroad this summer. A suicide bombing on May 22 killed 22 people and injured more than 100 others, after a concert by singer Ariana Grande. Read more...
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June 2, 1:34 am
UCLA student shares motivations in creating SoCal Grad Club
UCLA students are picking up their caps and gowns for graduation, but hundreds did not buy them from the university. Instead, they purchased their graduation gear from SoCal Grad Club, a new student-run business that sells cap and gown packages for 14 dollars less than what the university sells them for. Read more...
Photo: Tim Connors, third-year cognitive science student and founder of SoCal Grad Club, has sold caps and gowns to hundreds of UCLA students. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
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June 2, 1:32 am
Bill Klug Memorial Scholarship Fund created in memory of professor
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science created a new scholarship in honor of a professor killed in a shooting on campus last year. Read more...
Photo: The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science launched a new scholarship in honor of the professor killed in last year’s murder-suicide.
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June 2, 1:27 am
CalFresh at UCLA aims to enroll more students to fight food insecurity
A team of five undergraduate women is trying to combat food insecurity on campus. The CalFresh Initiative, led by Global Food Initiative fellow Savannah Gardner, works to help more students apply for CalFresh. Read more...
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June 1, 1:54 am
Students, faculty express concern over proposed federal budget cuts
Several UCLA students and administrators said they are concerned with President Donald Trump’s budget request for federal funding for higher education. The proposed budget request would cut the Department of Education’s discretionary spending by $9.2 billion or 13.5 percent, impacting student aid and financial loans as well as research grants. Read more...
Photo: David Pomerantz, former Democratic Staff director on the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations; Marjorie Duske, director of Science and Technology Policy in the UC Office of the President’s Federal Government Relations division; and Francisco Carrillo, executive director of Federal Government Relations, discussed President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget at a forum Tuesday evening. (Courtesy of Jonathan Van Dyke)
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June 1, 1:50 am
Professor works to clear up effects of dust on climate change
Dust in the air can alter climate change in unpredictable ways, according to UCLA researchers. Jasper Kok, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, published a paper in April detailing how aerosols such as desert dust can cause temperature and precipitation levels to fluctuate, accelerating climate change. Read more...
Photo: Jasper Kok, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, is helping elucidate the role dust plays in climate change. He said dust can have either a net cooling or net heating effect on the atmosphere depending on the size of the particles. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)