An Ashe Center urgent care clinic that opened in spring has received positive feedback from students. Since its opening in late March, the ASAP Clinic has had more than 4,000 visits from students, said June Hu, data and applications manager for the Ashe Center. Read more...
Photo: The ASAP Clinic is a walk-in urgent care health clinic on the third floor of the Ashe Center. It opened due to complaints of overcrowding from Ashe Center patients.(Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
UCLA will enforce new security procedures at this year’s Bruin Bash to increase student safety. The undergraduate student government’s Campus Events Commission and Cultural Affairs Commission, which organized the event, hired a new security company and introduced more thorough wristband precautions, said Jordan Dang, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Campus Events commissioner. Read more...
Photo: The Cultural Affairs Commission and Campus Events Commission have hired a new security company to staff this year’s Bruin Bash. Last year, Contemporary Services Corporation staffed the event.
UCLA officials appointed a new dean for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs on Thursday. Gary Segura, professor of political science at Stanford University, will start his term Jan. Read more...
Photo: Gary Segura will start his term as the new dean for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs from Jan 1, 2017. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
UCLA was ranked the 24th-best national university in the 2017 edition of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings of national universities, released Monday evening, slipping slightly from last year. Read more...
Photo: UCLA tied with Carnegie Mellon and University of Virginia for the 24th best national universities in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report rankings. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA settled a lawsuit Thursday that was filed by two graduate students who claimed they were sexually harassed by professor Gabriel Piterberg. According to a UCLA statement, the UC Board of Regents agreed to pay one student $350,000 and the other student $110,000. Read more...
Photo: Two graduate students who claimed they were sexually harassed by professor Gabriel Piterberg received a dissertation year fellowship and $460,000 total in settlements from the UC Board of Regents. (Jintak Han/Assistant photo editor)
UCLA plans to host a U.S. Senate debate between candidates Rep. Loretta Sanchez and California Attorney General Kamala Harris at Royce Hall on Oct. 14. Sanchez, a Democrat from Orange County, accepted the debate offer after she met with students and faculty Tuesday morning to discuss her goals for education as senator, said Rafi Sands, undergraduate student government external vice president. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Government and Community Relations and KNBC TV will partner to host a U.S. Senate debate at Royce Hall on Oct. 14. Loretta Sanchez has accepted the invitation, while Kamala Harris has yet to accept. (Daily Bruin file photo)
