The UCLA Brain Research Institute will host an event featuring the work of neuroscience professors, pre-doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows on campus Tuesday afternoon. The BRI Neuroscience Poster Session, a free, annual event aimed to educate community members about UCLA neuroscience research, will showcase more than 150 posters dedicated to brain-related research. More than 300 […]
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USAC passes resolution to support diversity requirement
The undergraduate student government unanimously passed a resolution to support a diversity course requirement for College of Letters and Science students Tuesday night. The Undergraduate Students Association Council vote is an informal step toward the implementation of the diversity requirement, which will have first-year students entering UCLA in 2015 and transfers entering in 2017 take […]
USAC passes divestment resolution with 8-2-2 vote
This post was updated on Nov. 20 at 5:22 p.m. The undergraduate student government voted 8-2-2 at its meeting Tuesday night to pass a resolution that calls for the University of California to divest from American companies that some say profit from human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. About 250 students […]
Divestment resolution broadens language, considers other communities
The undergraduate student government will vote Tuesday night on a resolution calling for the University of California to divest from several American companies that some say profit from human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza. A similar resolution went before last year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council in late February. After nine hours of […]
Former Internal Vice President Avinoam Baral assumes USAC presidency
Avinoam Baral became the new undergraduate student government president Friday night, after Devin Murphy resigned from office. Murphy said in a statement Friday morning he resigned from the Undergraduate Students Association Council presidency because of the high level of stress and the toll campus climate has taken on his mental, emotional and physical health. In […]
GSA fills seat for vice president of internal affairs
The graduate student government elected UCLA law student Milan Chatterjee to fill a vacant cabinet seat Wednesday. Chatterjee, formerly the director of Graduate Students Association’s discretionary funding, ran against Heidi Alexander and Matthew FitzGerald for the GSA vice president of internal affairs position. The position opened up after former graduate student officer Hope McCoy resigned […]
CSU hires Pamela Thomason as systemwide Title IX compliance officer
UCLA’s sexual harassment and Title IX officer Pamela Thomason is leaving the university to oversee Title IX training and education within the California State University system, UCLA officials announced Friday. Title IX prohibits discrimination based on gender. A Title IX compliance officer processes campuswide Title IX complaints, including reports of sexual harassment, assault and stalking. […]