Lavender Health Alliance aims to promote LGBT-sensitive health care

As a first-year student, Jeffrey Wong often felt isolated by a lack of support available to him and other lesbian, gay, bisexual and trangender students in math and science fields. He said he felt he couldn’t be his full self in a world where it’s uncommon to be an LGBT individual with prehealth aspirations. “Identity […]

Student’s track and field club team mixes social, competitive aspects

Amberly Bark helped create a club track and field team this fall to organize practices and workouts for students who want to run competitively, but without the demands of an NCAA Division I team. USA Track & Field-licensed coach Jeffrey Fisher will prepare comprehensive workouts for the club team, but Bark said students who just […]

Graduate student integrates music, neuroscience in research

After working an eight-hour day at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Don Vaughn changed out of his lab coat and drove to Los Angeles International Airport last week to catch his flight to New York, where he performed the next day. Vaughn, a graduate student in neuroscience and part-time drummer and DJ, […]

UCLA Emergency Medicine Center director Dr. Marshall Morgan dies at 73

Dr. Marshall T. Morgan, director of the Emergency Medicine Center in the David Geffen School of Medicine, died on April 16 after being diagnosed with cancer two months earlier. He was 73. Friends, family and coworkers remember him as a physician and father who led by example and practiced medicine with empathy and compassion. “Medicine […]

USAC to vote on resolution calling for transfer resource center

The undergraduate student government will vote Tuesday on a resolution that calls for the creation of a UCLA transfer resource center to provide more resources for transfer students and offer a space for them to connect. The idea of a center with transfer student-specific resources has been in the works at UCLA for several years, […]

Decrease in state funding leads to higher student debt

Ahrav Dutta’s schedule for the most recent summer followed: graveyard shift at Jack-in-the-Box until 6 a.m. Classes. Work before and after classes. Gym. Work. Study. In the school year, Dutta works seven days a week, splitting his 52-hour work week between his three jobs. He’s also a full-time student with a slate of four classes. […]

United Afghan Club holds charity banquet to support communities abroad

Dressed in vibrant traditional attire, members of the UCLA United Afghan Club welcomed students, families and other guests to the seventh annual Afghanistan fundraising banquet Saturday. The members of the club started the night with a reading from the Qur’an followed by waving the tricolored Afghan flag during the recitation of the national anthem. The […]