An undergraduate student government office is putting on a panel Tuesday night to discuss intimate partner violence in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Student Wellness Commission will host the event, called “LGBTQ Partner Violence Awareness Panel,” in 2422 Boelter Hall from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The event […]
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‘It’s On Us UCLA’ series aims to encourage dialogue on sexual assault
Royce Hall’s iconic tile walls blurs around Sina Famenini’s face as he stares intently into the camera. His direct and somber gaze echoes the similar expressions of 30 other subjects, who all posed to show support for survivors of sexual assault.
Student petitions for Sikh studies class
Manjot Singh covers his long hair in a turban every day as a physical manifestation of worship, a basic tenet of his Sikh faith. Because he wears a turban, the fourth-year global studies student said he sometimes thinks students on campus treat him differently or make unfair judgments about his religious beliefs. Last week, Singh […]
UCLA Grand Challenges program awarded $100,000 grant
A Los Angeles nonprofit awarded the UCLA Grand Challenges program $100,000 for its environmental improvement initiative on Tuesday. LA2050, an initiative aimed at improving the city’s educational, environmental, health and safety standards, gave 10 Los Angeles-based projects $100,000 each this week for their work to improve the city. About 270 projects were entered into the […]
USAC launches ‘All of Us’ mental health awareness campaign
Devin Murphy felt his self-awareness and self-worth deteriorate at the end of his second year at UCLA. After losing in the undergraduate student election for the position of a general representative in May 2013, facing hostility from extended family members for being gay and wondering if he would be able to afford to live in […]
English, Korean departments to offer new service-learning courses
Two new courses that weave together service learning and traditional lectures will be open to UCLA students in the fall. The UCLA Center for Community Learning created the new courses – Korean 106SL: Superior Korean with Service Learning, and English 119SL: Literary Cities with Service Learning – to increase students’ engagement with the course material […]
Obituary: Devoted physicist Nina Byers dies at 84
Nina Byers, a noted physicist who taught at UCLA and helped pave the way for more women in the field, passed away in her Santa Monica home on June 5 because of a hemorrhagic stroke. She was 84. Byers joined UCLA’s Physics and Astronomy Department as an assistant professor in 1961, where she later worked […]