The City of Los Angeles awarded the Donated Body Program at UCLA a permit last Thursday that permanently authorizes researchers to use a flameless procedure called Bio Cremation to dispose of cadavers. On average, about 168 people donate their bodies to UCLA’s Donated Body Program every year to be used for research after their death. […]
Author Archives: Allison Ong
UC, UCLA food justice programs focus on access, sustainability
Samantha Chen poured creamy Greek yogurt, fresh strawberries and crunchy granola into a bowl, layering the ingredients to make a colorful, healthy parfait, and handed out spoons to the children surrounding her. Chen, a fourth-year sociology student, taught her first cooking lesson for low-income families Monday at the Venice Family Clinic, as part of her […]
Young Research Library 3-D printer accepts student, faculty proposals
The black, cube-shaped 3-D printer hummed as lasers stacked thin layers of plastic-infused white filament upon each other, giving 3-D life to a 2-D design. After the printer completed its job, Doug Daniels removed a lattice-patterned skull from the platform. The printer, located on the second floor of Charles E. Young Research Library, was only […]
Bunche Center hosts “Black Bruins Matter” convocation
Christine Simmons discovered her passion for social justice as a UCLA student after marching down the streets of Westwood with more than 800 fellow peers to protest the prohibition of affirmative action in California schools. Instead of attending medical school as originally planned, Simmons graduated in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in physiological science and […]
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison to receive UCLA Medal
In 1993, novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, showing the world a critically-acclaimed artist could be a force of change. On Monday, Chancellor Gene Block will award Morrison the UCLA Medal, which recognizes extraordinary achievement exemplifying UCLA’s values of integrity, excellence and accountability. The public ceremony […]
UCLA student and faculty members push for better employee conditions
UCLA faculty and students marched and rallied at Bruin Plaza Tuesday for increased job stability, more access to welfare benefits and a greater say in campus government for lecturers and librarians. About 30 people associated with the University of California branch of the American Federation of Teachers, also known as UC-AFT Local 1990, picketed for […]
Debates over academic freedom affect students, staff, locals
The UCLA Academic Senate defines academic freedom as intellectual independence, free investigation and open communication within the university community. Over the past four years, UCLA saw professors defending their research and students protesting against the diversity requirement, alleging that their academic freedom was at stake. But recent history also saw opposition to free speech, with […]