Alumna awarded Medal of Courage for aiding victims of Las Vegas shooting

Brittany Speer and her family visited Las Vegas in October expecting to attend a country music concert. Instead, they found themselves in the midst of an unrelenting hail of gunfire. On Oct. 1, a lone gunman shot and killed 58 individuals attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas and wounded over 800 […]

Bird scooters provide new mode of transportation around UCLA

Schuyler Poh has been waking up later since she started using electric scooters on campus to zip to class. Bird electric scooters connect to a mobile application that allows anyone with a phone and a valid driver’s license to access and ride the devices. Riders can scoot around for as long as they want, at […]

Students establish TASO chapter at UCLA, support transborder community

Isaac Felix woke up before sunrise to get to elementary and middle school, only to wait in four-hour lines at the U.S.-Mexico border because he attended school in the United States while living in Mexico. “Once you cross, you would get there way too early before school opened so (you’d) be sleeping in your car,” […]

New student program fights food insecurity, prevents dining hall waste

Students will be served free leftover food from the Hill’s dining halls, tentatively starting Feb. 15. Student organizations Hunger Project, Swipe Out Hunger and Students for Students partnered with UCLA Dining Services to launch Bruin Dine, which will distribute leftover food from De Neve, Feast and Covel dining halls in the Kerckhoff State Rooms from […]

Student’s foundation promotes educational opportunities in South Africa

Luke Mostert balances managing his college coursework with managing a scholarship foundation nine time zones away in South Africa. Mostert is the founder and president of the Litoro Foundation, which provides educational scholarships to low-income students in South Africa. A third-year political science student from South Africa, he also previously developed a company that makes […]

Yoga instructor brings break dance background, personality to classes

Dressed in all black and looking more like a ninja than a yoga instructor, Marco Antonio flings the door wide open to greet the crowd of students waiting to take his class. Antonio, a yoga instructor at the John Wooden Center, uses his dance background to curate his own interpretations of traditional yoga practice. As […]