David Makovsky, former adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, spoke Monday at a Bruins for Israel event that aimed to inform students about the potential for peace in the Middle East. Makovsky worked with Kerry for about nine months in 2013 and 2014 to draft peace agreements between Israel and Palestine that attempt to […]
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UCLA center hosts event on social impact of digital technology
University of California professors held a workshop Saturday for high school students to develop ways to ease communication across cultural barriers like linguistic and socioeconomic ones. The UC Digital Cultures Lab, a UCLA research center founded last spring, hosted the Saturday workshops at Augustus F. Hawkins High School. The center, the only one in California […]
Conference discusses advances in California climate change solutions
UCLA faculty, California politicians and business executives are developing new technological tools that support California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as announced at a conference held at the UCLA School of Law Friday. The conference, hosted by Sen. Fran Pavley and Assemblyman Richard Bloom, addressed the record four-year drought, housing and transportation issues and […]
ASU disappointed in Block, plans to push UCLA to address all demands
Afrikan Student Union members said they are disappointed the UCLA administration only addressed about half their demands to solve issues of racial inequality on campus. Chancellor Gene Block announced Friday UCLA administrators will hire an officer to increase outreach and recruitment of black students, and develop more robust anti-discrimination policies. The administration will also create […]
ASUCLA Services Committee recap – Nov. 13
Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides for student services and activities that the university does not fund and oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board and campus services and enterprises. The services committee meeting takes place every month and focuses on evaluating the services provided by the association, […]
Feminist activist, Professor Emerita Helen Astin dies at 83
Helen “Lena” S. Astin, a UCLA professor emerita and feminist scholar, died on Oct. 27 in Los Angeles. She was 83 years old. Astin was a feminist activist at UCLA and co-founder of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. She spent her years at UCLA promoting women’s education and leadership for faculty and […]
Offensive posters targeting SJP resurface on campus for third time
Students found posters on Bruin Walk and in the North Village Thursday morning accusing the organization Students for Justice in Palestine of involvement in terrorist and anti-Semitic acts. One of the posters found Thursday read, “Regardless of how they picture themselves, this is who they really are,” above a photo of a child standing next […]