In a recent study, UCLA researchers found transgender adults are more racially and ethnically diverse in comparison to the general United States population. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which published the study in October, also found that transgender adults who identified with a certain race were significantly more likely to live […]
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Student-created app matches strangers for meals on the Hill
Students who find themselves eating alone on the Hill have a new way to find a dining partner. With the Bruin Dine app, which was launched by three UCLA students, students are matched with a stranger for a meal. Since its creation last week, 97 students have searched for matches. The students created the app […]
UCLA Transportation to allocate parking permits for transfer students
UCLA Transportation will now allocate 12 parking permits every quarter for transfer students. The undergraduate student government Office of the Transfer Student Representative worked with UCLA Transportation last spring to secure a total of 36 permits per year, beginning this quarter. The Bruin Resource Center’s UCLA Transfer Student Program is now administering the permit applications. […]
Photo: Minority Report draws attention to historic racism and inequality
UCLA held Minority Report, a theatrical performance that aimed to educate students about diversity and race relations, on Tuesday. The department of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs held the event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Broad Art Center. The goal of the performance was to educate people […]
UCLA announces new location for graduate student fitness center
This post was updated Nov. 1 at 7:15 p.m. UCLA officials announced a new location for the Kinross Recreation Center on Tuesday. UCLA will build the new fitness center in the northwest end of Parking Lot 36, by Veteran Avenue and Kinross Avenue, said Michael Deluca, assistant vice chancellor of campus life, and Wendy Windsor, […]
Social science master’s program to launch in fall 2017
Students can now apply to a new nine-month-long social science’s master’s degree program. The first Master of Social Sciences Program, or MaSS, will begin fall 2017 and end in June 2018, according to an email announcement sent by UCLA Social Sciences interim dean Laura Gómez. The MaSS program will teach students how to take an […]
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 […]