Bollywood dance has shifted from the classical elite to the everyday citizen, said Dr. Pallabi Chakravorty. Within her book, “This is How We Dance Now!,” she analyzes the change in the instruction in dance, as well as the social classes that participate in the activity today. Chakravorty gave a book talk Monday hosted by the […]
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UCLA professors conduct research on effects of Woolsey fire on local ecosystems
UCLA professors are conducting a field research study to examine how wildfire severity affects species native to the Santa Monica Mountains. Brad Shaffer, a distinguished professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Jon Keeley, an adjunct professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, are researching the effect of the Woolsey […]
UCLA researchers develop smartphone-based microscope to detect lethal bee parasites
UCLA researchers helped develop a smartphone-based microscope to detect parasites in bees. Aydogan Ozcan, the associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, developed a 3D-printed microscope to help beekeepers quickly determine if one of their bee colonies is infected with Nosema apis or Nosema ceranae, unicellular parasites that infect honeybees. Nosema disease has […]
Out-of-class exams place unnecessary stress, responsibility on busy students
It’s exciting to come home around 5 p.m. after a long day of class and midterms – unless of course, you have an evening midterm, in which case you’ll have to spend another two hours drilling into your brain until you get a migraine. UCLA instructors have the option to hold midterms in or out […]
Campus Queries: How can college students care for their eyesight?
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: What is the best way to preserve eyesight? A: Aside from getting glasses or going through laser eye surgery, there is little people can do to slow the rate of eyesight degradation, […]
Harvard professor lectures at UCLA on implications of subconscious biases
A Harvard Professor said everyone has implicit biases they may not even realize at an event Saturday. Mahzarin Banaji, a professor and administrative chair at Harvard University, spoke at the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA regarding how implicit biases affect the way society thinks and the implications it has on those that society is biased […]
Federal financial aid policy hinders off-campus students from paying rent on time
Jan. 1. New year, new you, right? All that’s on your mind is that it’s time to start eating at Bruin Plate and hitting up the Bruin Fitness Center regularly. Unless you live off campus, in which case rent is the only thing on your mind. In order to pay for UCLA, some students have […]