Our Guiding Principles
Healthy living is a choice and a lifestyle, but unless you’re in a supportive environment, it can be challenging. In 2013, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block announced the Healthy Campus Initiative…
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Serving up Praxis: Reflecting on Off the Table at UCLA
“All right, let’s start cooking.” Our metal stools scraped back all at once and we began forming small groups. “We need 3-4 people at each ricotta station, and some more…
The Urban Gardening Certificate Program: Another Way to Get Involved with the Garden!
In a recent survey of participants at the jane b semel HCI Community Garden, 55.6% of participants agreed that the garden increased their sense of community at UCLA. More than…
The Road to Healthy Vending at UCLA
Have you noticed a transition in the snacks and beverages offered in vending machines on campus? What about those “healthier choices made easy” stickers on the outside of the machine…
Did You Know: Versatile Grapes
As we ring in the New Year, I can’t help but think of sparkling wine and its progenitor: the grape. In fact, while we are on the subject of Champagne…
Graduate Students at the Forefront of Veteran Food Security
“We truly need to integrate agriculture into our urban systems to tackle food insecurity for the populations that are most underserved.” -Kathleen Chen Kathleen, a second year graduate student, and…
Did you know: Ginger, A Spice for the Season
Given we are now in December and looking forward to festivities the season brings regardless of religious or political beliefs, many of us can agree that ginger is a key…
Bruin Plate Dining in the Comfort of your own Home
Any person who eats at Bruin Plate for the first time is immediately aware that this is no regular college dining hall. The menu reads like one you might find…
Cooking with Apicius: A Mediterranean Kitchen in Westwood
The trans-disciplinary course Food and Medicine in Antiquity, taught by Alain Touwaide during Spring Term, culminated with a Roman dinner organized in collaboration with The Huntington in San Marino. In…
Food Security on UCLA’s Campus
We often don’t think of food security as being an issue for college students. With dining halls and plenty of on campus restaurants, it would seem as if food is…
As a land grant institution, the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands).