Hundreds of students get rejected from the campus’s handful of competitive business clubs each year because each has a limited number of spots. Megan Pierce, a third-year business economics student, was motivated to found a new club, Bruin Women in Business, due to UCLA’s lack of a formal business degree program and the scarce opportunities […]
Author Archives: Jillian Frankel
Conservative students face discrimination, marginalization at UCLA
Haley Nieves was putting up posters for a Bruin Republicans event last spring when two female students confronted her, tearing down the posters and shouting in her face. Shaken, she waited until they left to start putting the posters up again. “Then one of the same students approached me once more and pinned me against […]
Alumna binds paper planner with passion, highlights long-term goals
Angelia Trinidad said the first planner she created had 28 typos, but it still helped thousands overcome obstacles in their lives. Some used the Passion Planner, which Trinidad created in 2013, to manage attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cope with losing a loved one or figure out the next step in life. She and two friends […]
Volunteers hearten cardiac transplant patients through art, music
Doctors, nurses and visitors bustle past one another under directory signs in the white, marbled lobby of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. But upstairs on the seventh floor, noises settle into a rhythm of beeping heart monitors and murmuring nurses. At the cardiac care and observation unit, heart transplant patients can spend up to […]
Celebrities rally for Bernie Sanders at UCLA ‘Rock the Campus’ event
Supporters of presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., encouraged UCLA students to register to vote Monday evening at a “Rock the Campus” event that was part of a larger series of college campus tours. Celebrity attendees such as Rosario Dawson, Josh Hutcherson and Zoe Kravitz explained the voting process and endorsed Sanders as they […]
UCLA student died in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico during spring break
A UCLA student died in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, during spring break. He was 22. Andrew Jacks, a fourth-year mathematics and economics student, was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and grew up in Newport Beach, California. Jake Ksendzov, SAE president and a third-year mathematics and economics student, said the fraternity will not […]
Nobel laureate, professor emeritus Lloyd Shapley dies at 92
Lloyd Shapley, a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and a UCLA professor emeritus, died Saturday. He was 92. Shapley was awarded the prize in 2012 for his work in game theory, for which he was considered one of the world’s leading experts according to his peers. Game theory focuses on maximizing […]