The UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine recently received a $50 million grant from the estate of a wealthy Pacific Palisades couple, the university announced Thursday. Read more...
Campus, News, Science & Health
|
November 14, 10:41 am
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine receives $50M donation
Campus, News
|
November 14, 8:00 am
CALPIRG holds pledge drive to fund campaigns on public interest issues
People with clipboards and bright orange stickers have been calling out to students on Bruin Walk, asking: “Have you pledged CALPIRG yet?” CALPIRG Students, a branch of the California Public Interest Research Group, has chapters on eight University of California campuses, including UCLA. Read more...
Campus, News
|
November 14, 7:31 am
Pro-Israel coalition seeks to shift USAC focus back to campus issues
More than 100 students met at Hillel at UCLA Thursday to discuss a strategy to persuade the undergraduate student government to shift its attention away from political and international issues. Read more...
Campus, News
|
November 13, 1:12 am
ACM opens Speaker Series with talk by Internet pioneer, UCLA professor
Forty-five years ago, he sent the first ever instant message from the halls of Boelter to a computer in a Stanford lab. The Stanford computer crashed almost instantly, flashing just the letters "LO" before going blank. Read more...
Photo: Leonard Kleinrock, one of the Internet’s early pioneers, spoke to about 30 students in a crowded Boelter Hall classroom Wednesday. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
Campus, News
|
November 13, 12:56 am
GSA fills seat for vice president of internal affairs
The graduate student government elected UCLA law student Milan Chatterjee to fill a vacant cabinet seat Wednesday. Chatterjee, formerly the director of Graduate Students Association’s discretionary funding, ran against Heidi Alexander and Matthew FitzGerald for the GSA vice president of internal affairs position. Read more...
Campus, News
|
November 13, 12:51 am
Philanthropist gifts $10 million for new center at TFT
A Los Angeles-based philanthropist recently donated $10 million to launch a new center at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman of Participant Media and former president of eBay, gave $10 million to create the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment. Read more...
Campus, Crime, News
|
November 12, 1:48 pm
UCPD arrests former UCLA student for YRL laptop theft
Police arrested a UCLA alumnus Tuesday in connection with the weekend theft of more than 50 MacBook laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library. Read more...
Photo: UCPD retrieved 53 laptops late Tuesday from Seyed Hesari’s Hollywood home. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)