Jorge Herrera migrated to the United State at the age of 4, and he did not think he would go to college. “In my head I would (ask) myself what was the point of me going to college if I couldn’t put my degree to work,” he said. However, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]
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Students protest ending of DACA program, discuss concerns for future
UCLA students joined thousands of demonstrators gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it will end a program that deferred the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]
UCLA assistant adjunct professor partners with Congo Basin Institute
Kevin Njabo left Cameroon 15 years ago to pursue teaching and research in environmental science at UCLA. Njabo, an assistant adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, helped establish UCLA’s partnership with the Congo Basin Institute, in which he serves as the Africa director of the Center for Tropical Research. UCLA and the International Institute of […]
Students and alumni affected by Tropical Storm Harvey discuss recovery
This post was updated Sept. 1 at 5:35 p.m. A motorboat helped Michelle Chung’s family and dogs evacuate through the flooded streets of Houston. A neighbor driving the motorboat knocked on the door of her family’s flooded home, said Chung, a third-year cognitive science student. She added most people she knows evacuated by boat as well. Chung, […]
Horace Mann UCLA Community School adds ninth-grade class
About 40 students started high school as the inaugural ninth-grade class at the Horace Mann UCLA Community School last week. Horace Mann, which originally taught only sixth to eight grade, added the ninth-grade class as part of a February agreement between the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Los Angeles Unified […]
UCLA to offer new undergrad degree in computer engineering in the fall
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has built a new undergraduate degree out of electrical engineering and computer science. The electrical engineering and computer science departments will together oversee a new degree called computer engineering beginning in the fall. First- and second-year students in the two departments and undeclared engineering students […]
Anderson School of Management students develop networking app
Andrew Bremner didn’t think networking was important for career progression until he witnessed it firsthand at UCLA. That’s why Bremner and Brandon Kessler, graduate students in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, founded Out of Office, a mobile platform that connects professionals through intimately sized networking events and activities. The app is scheduled to be […]