This post was updated July 12 at 12:40 a.m. A new centralized space for transfer and veteran students will soon be in service after months of delay. The Bruin Resource Center held a soft opening last month for its new Transfer Student and Veterans Resource Center at Kerckhoff 128 and 132 for students and graduating […]
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Alumna works to dispel stigma against social workers by becoming one
In the low-income and predominantly Hispanic community of Maywood, California, where Fatima Perez comes from, many view social workers as people who pluck children from their families, she said. Perez hopes to change this negative perception by becoming a social worker herself. Perez, who graduated this year with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Chicana/o […]
Students explore nontraditional media options to get news
Some students who find college newspapers boring are paving the way for different forms of student media. These new media differ from established types of student media in content, production or distribution. They also tend to advocate for minority groups and others not often represented in mainstream culture. One example is The Rival, which is […]
UCLA Lab School encourages inquiry, applied learning in STEM and art
This post was updated June 29 at 1:25 a.m. It’s noon in the schoolyard, and laughing children swarm wooden play sets and build tunnels from plastic waffles that fit together like blocks. This is recess time at the UCLA Lab School, a pre-kindergarten through sixth grade institution nestled behind the UCLA Anderson School of Management. […]
New poke restaurant opens in Westwood following growing popularity
Students can now choose from four poke places in Westwood with the recent addition of a new restaurant in the Village. The Poke, a restaurant that serves poke bowls and hot plates served with cooked meat, miso soup, sweet radishes and other toppings, opened a new location Monday on Broxton Avenue. Poke is cubed sashimi, […]
Darnell Hunt to fill dean of social sciences position in July
UCLA named a new dean of social sciences for the UCLA College on Friday. Darnell Hunt, chair of the sociology department, will start his term as the new dean July 1, according to an announcement by Scott Waugh, UCLA executive vice chancellor and provost. Hunt will replace Laura Gómez, who has served as interim dean […]
Bill Klug Memorial Scholarship Fund created in memory of professor
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science created a new scholarship in honor of a professor killed in a shooting on campus last year. Chancellor Gene Block announced the Bill Klug Memorial Scholarship Fund in a campus-wide email on the anniversary of June 1 murder-suicide. The scholarship will support undergraduate students in mechanical […]