Some students at UCLA and UC Riverside are leading a petition to kick coffee giant Starbucks off campus due to what they say is the company's practice of union busting.
Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year, the UCLA campus heard the voices of many students of Iranian descent in protesting the brutal treatment of women in Iran.
February 9, 2021
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“We as an engineering community learned from that, that just having strength was not enough,” said Jonathan Stewart, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA. “You had to have ductility” the ability to stretch. “The [building] code would essentially produce nonductile concrete buildings.”
A new archival project at UCLA seeks to become that conduit, using boxes and boxes of internal records obtained by the LAPD. And to further that mission, the effort was recently given a three-and-a-half million-dollar boost in the form of a grant. Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Mark Vestal are professors at UCLA. They also head this new project, called Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration. (Lytle Hernandez and Vestal were interviewed.)