About 250 students, professors, family and friends held a candlelight vigil Thursday night in Sunset Village to commemorate UCLA student Christian Guzman, who died on Sunday at a retreat with The Posse Foundation. Read more...
Photo: Maritza Galdamos, Christian Guzman’s mother, spoke at the vigil organized Thursday to commemorate Guzman’s death. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin)
Student union officials plan to install a new energy-efficient air handling system in Ackerman Union and Kerckhoff Hall in the next few months, which is expected to save $22,500 annually in electrical costs. Read more...
Forty students will work in teams to develop complete business models, starting with their ideas and onward, this weekend on the Hill. The event, called 3 Day Startup, is a nonprofit weekend conference that the organizers hope will teach students how to develop prototypes, talk to customers and collaborate with mentors. Read more...
The undergraduate student government unanimously allocated about $20,600 to more than 100 student groups on Tuesday to use for a variety of operational costs. This is the third round of Student Organization Operational Fund allocations in which the average money given to groups has hovered around $200. Read more...
Ben Follansbee spent the last three weeks stuffing glitter into envelopes and sending them to hundreds of people across the country. Follansbee, a master’s of business administration student at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is the founder of SparkleSlap.com, a startup website that supplies customers with glitter bombs that are sent to unsuspecting recipients. Read more...
Photo: Ben Follansbee, a student at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, releases one of the “glitter bombs” that his startup company, SparkleSlap.com, sends to unsuspecting recipients. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
George Murphy, a longtime UCLA economics professor with a passion for singing, died Jan. 2 of natural causes and health complications due to diabetes. He was 90. Read more...
Photo: George Murphy, a UCLA economics professor, died Jan. 2 of natural causes. His colleagues and family remember him as a creative storyteller, lover of sailing and kind grandfather. (Courtesy of Holly Van Husen)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Read more...
