The first speaker at this year’s Dance Marathon was infected with HIV at birth and adopted as an infant, even though she wasn’t expected to live for more than a few months. Ashley Rose Murphy, an ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, shared her story of growing up with HIV with the crowd. […]
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2017 Graduate Students Association platforms
This year’s Graduate Students Association elections will have four uncontested candidates running with the Moving Forward slate. Elections will take place from April 11-18. Graduate students can vote on MyUCLA, and results will be announced at the April 19 GSA forum meeting. Below is a list of each candidate’s platforms and experience. Michael Skiles Running […]
Contract with union results in wage increase for skilled trades workers
UCLA and the union for campus skilled trades workers ratified a new five-year contract, university officials announced Thursday afternoon. The 600 skilled trades workers will receive a 12.5-percent wage increase and 3-percent annual increases starting July 1. Employees hired on or before Oct. 16, 2012, will receive an additional $2,000 and non-probationary employees hired after […]
Three undergraduates to speak at TEDxUCLA in May
Three UCLA undergraduate students will speak about dance, air pollution and waste disposal among a lineup of professionals and experts at the sixth annual TEDxUCLA event in Royce Hall in May. TEDx organizers invited the students to apply after learning about their experiences. Coordinators chose about 20 speakers in total for the TEDxUCLA lineup after […]
Rep. John Lewis to receive UCLA Medal, deliver lecture at Royce Hall
A civil rights leader and current congressman will come to UCLA on Monday to receive the UCLA Medal and deliver a lecture. Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, will deliver the 5th Annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture at Royce Hall. Patricia Turner, senior dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, said […]
Former UCLA basketball player Anita Ortega to give commencement address
This post was updated April 4 at 7:42 p.m. Anita Ortega, a former UCLA women’s basketball player, will deliver the UCLA College commencement address in June, UCLA officials announced Tuesday. Ortega, who was also the first African-American woman to serve as a Los Angeles Police Department area captain, will speak in the UCLA College of […]
UCLA groups introduce six new scholarships for transfer students
This post was updated on April 5 at 4:40 p.m. Transfer students can now apply to six new scholarships. Several transfer groups and students in the undergraduate student government collaborated to create two $1,000 and four $500 scholarships that will be awarded week six. Interested students can pick up applications at the Bruin Resource Center […]