I’m an overthinker, to the point where I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve rewritten the lede of this very column. Daily Bruin Copy is the one place this trait has served me well. The Copy desk took a lot of the things I previously didn’t like about myself and turned them into badges […]
Author Archives: Simran Vatsa
Amazon opens location in Westwood with added benefits for Prime members
Students can now receive textbook orders from Amazon within a day at Westwood Village’s latest offering. Amazon opened a staffed pickup location Tuesday on Westwood Boulevard. Members of Amazon Prime and Prime Student receive free same-day pickup on items they ship to this location if they place their orders before noon, said Carly Golden, an […]
Science Policy Group at UCLA offers avenue for research-based advocacy
Current and former UCLA doctoral students founded a group to advocate for more scientific input in public policy. The Science Policy Group at UCLA, created in May, held a kickoff event last month that saw around 25 attendees, said Jennifer Tribble, co-founder of the group and a doctoral student in neuroscience. “We want to make […]
UCLA researcher tackles paralysis with electrical stimulation devices
A UCLA professor is helping paralyzed individuals regain use of their limbs through electric stimulation of the spinal cord. In 2015, Reggie Edgerton, the director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory at UCLA, developed a robotic exoskeleton that helped a paralyzed man walk. Though the man is still paralyzed and cannot control the exoskeleton’s movement, Edgerton’s […]
Little Bruin Wishes fundraiser brings gifts to student parents, families
UCLA students’ children will receive the gift-wrapped presents they wish for this holiday season. The children will receive the gifts from Little Bruin Wishes, a gift drive hosted by the Bruin Resource Center’s Students with Dependents Program. The drive aims to fundraise for holiday presents for student parents and their families. Anyone can give monetary […]
English professor’s past struggles help him empathize with students
Blake Allmendinger would go up to his room when he was a child and escape to the world of mystery novels every time his parents began to fight. “Literature was the only thing I ever really liked,” Allmendinger said. Allmendinger, who has been an English professor at UCLA for 27 years, teaches a detective fiction […]