Apply for Poster Day 2024, hosted by the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Association (UIRA), on May 24th during Undergraduate Research Week! It’s the UCLA-wide opportunity for undergraduates to present their research in a public forum. Please submit your application by April 15th. You can apply to Poster Day through this google form. For questions or more information about UIRA, please check out our website or contact UIRA Co-Presidents Sophia Wang (wangsophia@g.ucla.edu) and Carolyn Wang (carolynwang25@g.ucla.edu)
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UCLA Poster Day 2024
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024Schoenberg Art Walk Applications – NOW OPEN!
Thursday, February 1st, 2024On behalf of the Alpert Student Advisory Board, we would like to extend an invitation to apply to present at the second annual Schoenberg Art Walk on Friday, April 5th! The purpose of our event is to connect students across the artistic schools at UCLA with one another and create avenues for future interdepartmental collaboration. While students will be prioritized, we welcome and encourage submissions from faculty and staff as well!
The “Schoenberg Art Walk” is a self-guided art showcase which aims to inform and engage student creative works by exhibition. The well-loved, annual event is a large-scale, student-run showcase that features artists from the Herb Alpert School of Music, School of the Arts and Architecture, as well as the School of Theater, Film and Television. We had an excellent audience turnout last year, and received an abundance of glowing feedback from both featured artists and guests.
This event will take place in the Schoenberg Music Building and will comprise an eclectic collection of musical acts, solo and/or group dance, visual art, film, theater, and much more. Selected “exhibits” will be interspersed throughout the building, while Schoenberg Art Walk attendees will roam the hallways and classrooms to interact with artists and appreciate their works. To apply to be a featured artist, please fill out this Google Form by Friday, February 16th @11:59 PM. Thank you! We look forward to showcasing your art to a wider audience and connecting you with other creative minds at UCLA.
Poster Day 2024
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024Poster Day 2024 hosted by the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Association (UIRA) is a UCLA-wide opportunity for undergraduate researchers to present their interdisciplinary research through poster presentations in a public forum. Creating such a space allows undergraduate students to cultivate skills necessary for a future career in research, including effective public speaking, scientific communication and productive cross-disciplinary discourse. Additionally, the event opens opportunities for interdisciplinary researchers to connect and build a community.
(more…)Houselessness Days of Service 2024
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024Join us for Houselessness Days of Service 2024 by the Community Service Commission!
This year, our three-day event is taking place on Week 4, Wednesday – Friday (January 31st to February 2nd)! We aim to educate the UCLA community about the houseless population, provide students with an understanding on housing policy and advocacy in California, and an opportunity to directly serve the houseless communities in Los Angeles.
(more…)Call for Submissions – Vagabond Multilingual Journal
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024The spirit of UC Berkeley’s comparative literature department is multidisciplinary, which is exactly the essence of Vagabond Multilingual Magazine.
The Vagabondeditorial board is pleased to announce that our Issue 3 reading period is open for submissions. For the third issue of Vagabond Multilingual Journal, we ask scholars to engage with the idea of translation as an act of transformation. Translation, to us, is not just the act of bringing a text from one language to another. It’s all around us, all the time: encompassing our interactions with others, the act of creating and receiving art itself, and even our own identities. We’d love to see submissions that embrace the ambiguities that lie at the center of living in a multilingual, multicultural world. Submissions do not need to adhere strictly to the theme, but submissions which show focus on multilingualism and/or multiculturalism are preferred.
(more…)Reimagining Safety Documentary: 1/18
Thursday, January 18th, 2024USAC Community Service Commission is collaborating with Afrikan Student Union and Center for Community Engagement to present a screening of Matthew Solomon’s highly acclaimed documentary “Reimagining Safety” on Thursday, January 18th at 5:00 in the Fowler Museum! Sign up HERE!
“Reimagining Safety” examines the criminal justice landscape and reform proposals that have gained steam in the United States since the murder of George Floyd in 2020. We will also have a panel discussion with Solomon himself in addition to former LAPD officials, social workers, political candidates, and a UCLA African American Studies professor to discuss how policing and incarceration create more harm than good, why the system persists, and what changes can be made to make everyone safe. See poster for more details.
The first 150 people who RSVP/attend will receive FREE cookies made by Dr. Shica’s Bakery, a Black-woman owned business, and FREE dinner from Subway.
Join us for a meaningful discussion and learning experience!
UCLA Contagious Kindness
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024We are excited to introduce an opportunity for you to participate in the “Contagious Kindness” project initiated by the Bedari Kindness Institute of UCLA. You can learn more about this initiative by visiting our website at https://kindness.ucla.edu/. This project is dedicated to gathering and celebrating stories of kindness, and we extend a warm invitation to you to become an integral part of it.
About the Project:
The “Contagious Kindness” project seeks to capture and share acts of kindness that have left a lasting impact on people’s lives. It’s an initiative to spread positivity and inspire others through the power of storytelling. Your participation will help promote the importance of kindness in our society.
(more…)“Envelope” – Dashew Center Art & Writing Magazine
Thursday, January 11th, 2024Envelope is an Art & Writing Magazine featuring creative work from UCLA’s international student, scholar, and staff community. We hope to publish this next volume of work by the end of Spring Quarter 2024 and feature this as a magazine on Dashew Center’s website. See our most recent magazine here under Envelope.
(more…)UCLA Pen-Pals Club – Quills to Connect
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING BY WRITING LETTERS?
Quills to Connect at UCLA is recruiting students interested in being a pen-pal with a senior in the LA community. We partner with several senior homes to connect student volunteers with senior citizens through letter writing! Our mission is to build meaningful connections between the youth and seniors through the familiar mediums of letter writing.
(more…)USAC CSC Holiday Drive 2023
Thursday, December 7th, 2023This holiday season, USAC’s Community Service Commission is partnering with UNICEF and UCLA Recreation Leadership Council to organize a donation drive in support of the upcoming holiday bazaar organized by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), dedicated to assisting refugees from Latin America, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and Ukraine.
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