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By Allison Ong (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 4 others for Daily Bruin - 3 min read
Gov. Brown commits $3M to UC Health precision medicine project
University of California, San Francisco announced Tuesday that Gov. Jerry Brown has committed $3 million in state funds to a UC Health system project that aims to advance precision medicine. The project, called the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, will begin within the UC Health system, which consists of five medical centers, including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center....
By Melody Teng (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 7 others for Daily Bruin - 5 min read
USAC approves resolution to establish nondenominational prayer space
Undergraduate student government officers voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a resolution that calls on administration to establish an on-campus, nondenominational prayer and meditation space. The resolution proposes a permanent prayer and meditation space on campus reserved for students of different faiths or no faith who wish to observe their religious or spiritual practices. UCLA is currently the only UC campus...
By Eliza Blackorby (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 5 others for Daily Bruin - 3 min read
UCLA students appeal parking tickets issued in Westwood
BY ELIZA BLACKORBYBruin contributoreblackorby@media.ucla.eduSeveral UCLA students are appealing parking tickets after university police increased its distribution of citations for cars left in spaces between the street and sidewalk in Westwood. UCPD started giving out more tickets for cars parked on the borders of walkways after it received complaints from the property managers of several UCLA-owned buildings, said UCPD spokesperson Nancy...
By Jillian Frankel (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 3 others for Daily Bruin - 4 min read
USAC recap – April 14
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. AgendaUSAC unanimously approved contingency programming allocations. The council unanimously passed...
By Sylvia Lutze (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 6 others for Daily Bruin - 4 min read
Sleep Week awakens students to reality, need for mental rest
The new nap room in Powell was full during Thursday of week two. Students napped on mats, the lights dimmed and the room silent. Sleep Week, an event across campus to promote the importance of sleep, took place this week. Interns in the Undergraduate Students Association Council Office of the President's Bruin Initiative put on the event with funding and...
By Allison Ong (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 5 others for Daily Bruin - 1 min read
UCLA scientists analyze protein deposits in brains of ex-NFL players
UCLA neuroscientists analyzed the brains of 14 ex-NFL players to study chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain condition found in athletes who suffer from repeated brain injuries. The researchers performed PET brain scans on the former football players after injecting them with the chemical marker FDDNP, which binds to protein deposits normally found in the brains of Alzheimer's...
By Kartik Kolachina (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 6 others for Daily Bruin - 3 min read
Student groups preserve their history with UCLA's new archive project
Several student groups are starting to document their history in public UCLA library archives, which anyone can contribute to or view. The archives are being created with the help of UCLA’s official archivist Heather Briston, who took up her position in June 2014 and works at the Charles E. Young Research Library. The archives, which will hold items such as...
University of California President Janet Napolitano said she thought the protest that accompanied the March UC Board of Regents meeting was over the top. "Public comment for some has become an opportunity to not be communicating with the regents," she said in an Editorial Board interview with The Bruin Thursday. "Maybe the point is not that they are heard, but...
By Roberto Luna Jr (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 7 others for Daily Bruin - 5 min read
UCLA Anderson Ted Week inspires passions in students, faculty
A technology forecaster predicted in his TED Talk last month that by 2050, 80,000 humans will set off to colonize Mars. "We're on the verge of a much greater edge of discovery: a two planet species," said Stephen Petranek, editor in chief of the Breakthrough Technology Report newsletter. "To survive, we have to reach beyond our home planet."At the UCLA...
By Yazmine Mihojevich (Ishita as slotter/staff) + 6 others for Daily Bruin - 5 min read
Hooligan to perform comedic rock musical 'The Wedding Singer'
This weekend, crimped side-swept hair and pastel leggings will no longer be relics of a forgotten past. Hooligan Theatre Company’s “The Wedding Singer” transports audiences to the ’80s, an era defined by the big and bold. Running Friday through Sunday in the Freud Playhouse, “The Wedding Singer” presents the classic binary of love versus money through the lens of a...
