Stepping onto the tarmac at Santa Monica Flyers, Vedant Bhargava always reminds himself to go back to the same checklist – a mindset he calls “airplane mode.”
The second-year economics student completes a laundry list of pre-flight checks before takeoff in a four-seat, single-engine airplane, including some for weather, passenger safety, fuel, and other flight technologies and conditions.

This post was updated Feb. 22 at 11:10 pm
Around 100 UCLA community members gathered Wednesday afternoon at Murphy Hall to protest reports of administration-backed cuts to graduate student admissions in light of recently won wage increases.

Dozens of UCLA students participated in a recent technical competition to address persistent disparities facing the LGBTQ+ community.
Founded in 2020, QWER Hacks – UCLA’s only LGBTQ+-centered hackathon – is an annual competition-style event where teams of two to four Bruins work together to create a piece of technology, such as an application or website, that uplifts the LGBTQ+ community or other underrepresented groups in the technology industry.

Throughout her early college years, Kelsey Kawana never really saw the snacks she grew up with lining the campus vending machines.
That feeling led her and two other former students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management – Eric Luo and Anne Marie Bessacini – to form dachi, an Asian-inspired treat and beverage company, in 2022.

The aftermath of the Monterey Park mass shooting and the national attention the community has received have been felt throughout the UCLA community, particularly for Asian American Bruins with close ties to the town.

In 1923, five Black women founded UCLA’s first Greek life organization, the Pi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta. One hundred years later, dozens of the chapter’s members gathered at UCLA to celebrate the chapter’s centennial and impact on the UCLA community.

A backpack caught on fire in a Boelter Hall classroom Wednesday, causing hundreds of students throughout the building to evacuate. 
Around 12:30 p.m., a backpack began to catch fire in Boelter Hall room 5249, where a bioengineering class was taking place, said Jeeth Pawar, a third-year bioengineering student in the class.

This post was updated Dec. 8 at 4:48 p.m.
UCLA staff blocked entry to De Neve Residential Restaurant on Wednesday following a protest by students advocating for free tuition and dining from the University of California.

This post was updated Nov. 25 10:25 p.m.
Dozens of UCLA faculty, members of various entertainment unions and undergraduate students joined picket lines Monday and Tuesday in support of an ongoing University of California-wide academic worker strike.

UCLA community members expressed uncertainty about the balance of political power within Congress following the results of the 2022 midterm elections.
Midterm results have aligned more closely than expected with the party of the current president despite the Biden administration facing low approval ratings and high inflation, according to CNBC.