Students can now choose from four poke places in Westwood with the recent addition of a new restaurant in the Village. The Poke, a restaurant that serves poke bowls and hot plates served with cooked meat, miso soup, sweet radishes and other toppings, opened a new location Monday on Broxton Avenue. Read more...
Photo: The Poke, a restaurant that serves poke bowls and hot plates, is the fourth poke restaurant in the Westwood area. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
New research suggests that people with obesity have different eating habits due to their sex. This new finding indicates medical professionals should take sex differences into account when designing future obesity treatments, said Arpana Gupta, principal investigator of the study and assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Read more...
Students can now charge their electronic devices outside at solar-powered umbrellas located on the Hill. The Renewable Energy Association at UCLA and the UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services installed four solar panel umbrellas outside of Bruin Café last Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Four solar panel umbrellas have been installed outside of Bruin Café last Wednesday. (Andrew Arifin/Daily Bruin)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...
University police arrested a woman who was found with a stolen bicycle and other stolen property at Drake Stadium on Monday night. The woman, who is unaffiliated with UCLA, was charged with grand theft and misappropriation of lost property, said UCPD Sergeant Brian Washburn. Read more...
Members of one of UCLA’s largest science research clubs received two Dean’s Prizes this year. Elegant Mind Club, a research group that studies the neural networks of roundworms to better understand the human nervous system, had two of its members, Suying Jin, a fourth-year physics student, and Myki Lee, a fourth-year neuroscience student, received the Dean’s Prize for excellence in presenting faculty-mentored research May 26. Read more...
Photo: (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin) Katsushi Arisaka created Elegant Mind Club to study the neurons of a type of roundworm.
Students, staff and faculty have been discussing what words like “democracy,” “humanity” and “heroism” mean in meetings over the course of the year. Humanities Dialogues consists of biweekly meetings, in which participants discuss a word and the different meanings associated with it. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students, staff and faculty participated in Humanities Dialogues, a program in which participants discussed their interpretations of certain words and how their different cultures affected those interpretations. The program culminated in a symposium, in which students gave presentations on a chosen word. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
