Nursing students danced in classrooms to garner attention for their campaign to bring first lady Michelle Obama to UCLA for the School of Nursing’s commencement ceremony in June. About 70 nursing students demonstrated five ways UCLA and the School of Nursing improve campus community members’ health in a YouTube video uploaded Oct. 19, said Kia […]
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UCLA completes $1M renovations to Dodd Hall classrooms
UCLA officials spent about $1 million to install new rolling chairs and wooden floors, among other facilities, in Dodd Hall classrooms this summer. The UCLA Office of Instructional Development, or OID, UCLA Facilities Management and the Registrar’s Office funded 11 first-floor classroom renovations that included new lighting fixtures and media equipment, such as projectors and […]
Poly Clinic, MedFest offer care to athletes at Special Olympics World Games
About five physicians and nurses hurriedly fetched bandages and medicines, seemingly incognizant of the frenzy of cheers erupting outside in celebration of the Special Olympics World Games. Physicians exchanged concise directions at the UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, where they treated an athlete for a broken collarbone following a cycling accident. Within […]
Alum uses network from UCLA FEMBA program to grow livestock business
Paul Greive, a former intelligence officer in the Marine Corps, almost couldn’t keep up with an army man’s routine because health problems including arthritis caused him pain all over his body in 2007. Greive made efforts to consume wholesome and clean foods after a fellow soldier suggested he switch to an anti-inflammatory diet to relieve […]
ASUCLA Services Committee recap – July 17
Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides student services and activities that the university does not fund and oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board, campus services and enterprises. The services committee meeting takes place every month and focuses on evaluating the services provided by the association, specifically the […]
Q&A: UCLA researcher talks role in Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling
Gary Gates, the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and research director of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, conducted research on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population that was cited in the Supreme Court’s decision Friday to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. Gates has filed “friend of the court” briefs to the Supreme Court […]
Summit seeks to address issues in education for black students, teachers
Sy Stokes, the creator of the viral YouTube video “The Black Bruins [Spoken Word]” who graduated from UCLA in 2015, was among those at a summit of black students, educators and community activists who shared their struggles to attain quality education. At the summit, Stokes talked about the impact he thinks counselors have on students. […]