UCLA received a donation of $15 million to renovate the UCLA Botany Building. The gift, which was donated by UCLA alumnus Morton La Kretz, will go toward upgrading labs for teaching and research, building a new class lab and refurbishing the entrance and lobby to the building’s Charles E. Young Drive entrance. The renovation of […]
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Tenth annual Volunteer Day incorporates Bruin community around the world
This post was updated Oct. 2 at 2:58 p.m. Members of the UCLA community volunteered in about 70 different projects around the world in UCLA’s 10th annual Volunteer Day on Saturday. This year UCLA expanded Volunteer Day beyond Los Angeles and included alumni, staff and faculty as regular volunteers rather than just students for the […]
Photo gallery focuses on candid communication as lens for understanding consent
This post was updated Oct. 1 at 3:03 p.m. Students curated a gallery of happy and communicative student couples to generate conversation about communication and consent. Bruin Consent Coalition, an organization which aims to educate the campus about sexual assault, created the gallery as part of Relationship Violence Awareness Month in an effort to bring […]
Professor ‘Polly’ Nooter Roberts, activist and inspiration, dies at 58
Students and family remember Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts as a passionate teacher whose commitment to her field inspired them to follow their own interests with the same drive. Roberts, a professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, died from breast cancer at the age of 58 on Sept. 11. Aside from teaching, Roberts’ […]
UCLA professor uplifts LA communities, colleagues in Million Dollar Hoods Project
A UCLA associate history professor is using her research on immigration and incarceration in America to impact the lives of the people in her community who face these issues. Kelly Lytle Hernandez is currently working on the Million Dollar Hoods Project, which examines data from the LAPD to determine the cost of policing. The Million […]
UC develops plans to transition to fully renewable energy by 2025
The University of California will update its own power-generating facilities and procure new renewable energy from third parties to reach its 100 percent renewable energy goal by 2025. The UC announced Sept. 4 all 10 UC campuses and five medical centers will commit to using solely zero-carbon and renewably generated electricity by 2025. David Phillips, […]
UCLA student awarded Mental Health Advocate award for her role in Active Minds
A professor approached Ciara Kelly in tears at an event where 1,000 backpacks spanned Wilson Plaza to represent the more than 1,000 college students who are lost to suicide in the United States each year. Kelly, a third-year communication student, said she realized in that moment the events she promotes could make a difference in […]