One month ago, Ariel Pezner spent nine hours straight aboard a research vessel in the Santa Monica Bay, circulating the waves above an underwater kelp forest. Pezner, a fourth-year environmental science student, is part of a six-person student team studying ocean acidification in a rehabilitated forest of kelp off the coast of Palos Verdes, California. […]
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Sproul Hall laundry room renovation to be completed by June
Sproul Hall will have a new, centralized laundry room after construction finishes in June. The laundry room will open in fall quarter and operate 24 hours a day. Students will be able to pay with their BruinCards instead of coins, said UCLA spokesperson Rebecca Kendall. Kendall added that the new facility, which will have 19 […]
ROTC cadets talk time commitment, handling finances
This post was updated on April 27 at 4:40 p.m. Katherine Knobloch wakes up every morning before dawn to train for combat before walking to her military science class at 8 a.m. By the time many students wake up in the morning, she has usually already been working for four hours, but has yet to […]
Vendors speak against potential change to Westwood farmers market staff
Local farmers and business owners held posters bearing the messages “Respect our farmers!” and “No farmer thief!” at a meeting earlier this month to protest the replacement of the current Westwood Village Farmers Market manager. In March, the Westwood Village Improvement Association decided to replace the current manager Emmanuel Bautista after his contract ends in […]
Professor emeritus Arnold Scheibel remembered for engaging lectures
Elaborate drawings of different parts of the brain covered the chalkboard of Arnold “Arne” Scheibel’s graduate neuroanatomy courses. For more than 50 years, Scheibel shared with students his love for both art and science through his classes. Scheibel, who was an emeritus distinguished professor of neurobiology and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine […]
UCLA RAVE hosts Masha Gessen, discusses comparison of Trump, Putin
A Russian journalist spoke about her reporting on Russian President Vladimir Putin and how she thinks he is similar to the current U.S. president Wednesday night. Masha Gessen incorporated her analysis of Putin’s rise to power and compared it to President Donald Trump’s administration and governance style in an event hosted by UCLA Resistance Against […]
New USAC slate’s platform promotes protection for minority students
President Donald Trump’s election spurred Nicole Corona Diaz, an undocumented student, to become more involved in political activism. “When Trump was elected, we didn’t know what was going to happen, whether we were going to get deported or whether (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) would still be around,” Corona said. “I’m fighting because it’s about […]