Sarah Leonard Fine Jewelers, one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Westwood, celebrated its 75th anniversary and was honored as a Monumental Business by the city of Los Angeles at a commemoration Thursday morning. Read more...
Photo: Westwood community members and city officials gathered at Sarah Leonard Fine Jewelers on Thursday, celebrating the store’s 75th anniversary and designation as a Monumental Business. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Nov. 22 at 1:18 p.m. Student organizations gathered for an annual showcase of cultures across the globe as part of the programming for International Education Week on Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Kyodo Taiko, a Japanese drum ensemble run by students, was one of multiple cultural performances at Bruins Around the World, an event that was a part of the celebration of International Education Week. (Courtesy of Peggy McInerny)
This post was updated Dec. 1 at 9:20 a.m. The Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran at UCLA has allowed the Iranian community of Southern California to further learn about their roots in their native language. Read more...
Photo: A cross-campus collaboration between professors from UCLA and California State University, Northridge created the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran in 2003. Since then, the series has hosted a variety of speakers to provide lectures in Farsi and English about topics such as Iranian politics, culture and society. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The UCLA Armenian Students’ Association hosted an Artsakh Awareness Week from Nov. 8 to Friday in light of the first anniversary of the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War of 2020. Read more...
Photo: The Armenian Students’ Association gathered outside of Kerckhoff Hall on Tuesday in a protest calling for the release of Armenian prisoners of war still held by Azerbaijan. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Nov. 9 at 2:15 p.m. This musical was recorded on Zoom. The Shenanigans Comedy Club at UCLA premiered the recording of “Zoom School Zoomsical the Zoomsical the Zoom! Read more...
Photo: Over the summer, the Shenanigans Comedy Club at UCLA created and recorded a new comedic musical about school life on Zoom. The “Zoomsical” premiered at the club’s first in-person show of fall quarter and has now been uploaded to YouTube. (Courtesy of Shenanigans Comedy Club Digital Sketch department)
The LA Cancer Challenge raised more than half a million dollars toward pancreatic cancer research with its 5-kilometer team race on campus Sunday. Held near the end of every October, the LA Cancer Challenge fell on Oct. Read more...
Photo: Walkers and runners participated in the 24th annual LA Cancer Challenge on Sunday with some wearing Halloween costumes. The race was a fundraising event that raised over half a million dollars for the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
President Joe Biden nominated distinguished law professor Jerry Kang to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities on Friday. The National Council on the Humanities is made up of 26 citizens appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Read more...
Photo: Law professor Jerry Kang became a nominee to join the National Council on the Humanities on Friday. Kang stepped down as vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion in 2020 after five years in the position and has worked on research concerning implicit bias and behavioral realism in legal analysis. (Daily Bruin file photo)
