The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meetings on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. Agenda The council unanimously appointed Aaron Boudaie, […]
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True Bruin Distinguished Senior Scholarship Award Winner: Christina Springer
As a child, Christina Springer stayed up late to watch TV newscasts on election night with her parents, writing the number of electoral votes in her pink Minnie Mouse notebook as they increased one by one, using them to make her own predictions. She was fascinated by the idea that the individual votes of people […]
UC funds $1.32M grant for health, poverty research centers
University of California campuses received $1.32 million Monday to bring together centers that aim to facilitate health and poverty research. The UC Office of the President funded the Blum Federation. The centers’ organizers will collaborate to teach and research global poverty, economic and social justice issues, according to a UCOP press release. UCLA’s center focuses […]
USAC announces election dates, strives for safe voting environment
The undergraduate student government approved Tuesday night a five-day election calendar for the council’s election this spring, and discussed increased security presence at election events. This year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council election will take place May 2 to May 6. In previous years, voting lasted three to four days, but the Election Board extended last […]
UCLA welcomes new course on the search for extraterrestrial life
Students will be able to search for intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms with space signals, telescopes and radio waves in a new class this spring. Jean-Luc Margot, a space physics professor, will teach Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences C179: “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Theory and Applications,” a course open to undergraduate and graduate students who have taken […]
UCLA senior anticipates launch of first campus-built satellite
In 2017, Michael Anderson will watch the UCLA Mission Operations Center launch his satellite into space. Anderson, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, was the chief engineer for the Electron Losses and Fields Investigation CubeSat, or ELFIN, the first satellite built by UCLA students. The satellite, about the size of a loaf of bread, will collect […]
Students aspire to level up in game design despite limited resources
Students substitute video game controllers and joysticks with food and live cacti at the UCLA Game Lab in Broad Art Center, while students across campus in the classrooms of Boelter Hall strap on virtual reality headsets to program imaginary environments for new video games. UCLA’s Design | Media Arts and computer science departments, as well […]