Two UCLA alumni recently donated $2 million to the UCLA School of Dentistry. The donation from philanthropists Bob and Marion Wilson establishes the Bob and Marion Wilson Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will be used to increase scholarship funding for future dentistry students. Read more...
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October 31, 8:08 am
Almuni, philanthropists donate $2M to UCLA School of Dentistry
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October 31, 8:01 am
UCLA unveils new Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, research center
Campus officials unveiled the new Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, a research center and patient-care facility, at a private ceremony earlier this week. The building is dedicated to the late philanthropists Edie Wasserman and Lew Wasserman, who were among UCLA’s most ardent supporters, according to a UCLA press release. Read more...
Photo: The Edie & Lew Wasserman building will house the David Geffen School of Medicine’s Institute of Urologic Oncology, the Department of Neurosurgery and the Jules Stein Eye Institute. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
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October 30, 12:31 pm
UCLA students participate in “Carry that Weight”
Inspired by and in cooperation with the ‘Carry That Weight’ project of Columbia student Emma Sulkowitz, UCLA students join to show support for survivors of sexual assault. Read more...
Photo: (Alena Maschke/Daily Bruin)
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October 30, 1:30 am
Students carry mattresses in solidarity with sexual assault survivors
Sexual assault survivors and advocates carried mattresses covered in the handwritten accounts of their experiences with gender-based violence in a student-led demonstration Wednesday. The event was inspired by Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student who lost her disciplinary case against the man she claimed raped her in a university dorm room two years ago. Read more...
Photo: Students carry mattresses through Bruin Plaza and across other walks of campus to symbolize the emotional weight that survivors of sexual assault carry each day. The students marched in a loop, past Murphy Hall, through UCLA’s sculpture garden and back to the Bruin Bear. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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October 30, 12:51 am
Report shows UCLA law school alumni among highest paid in nation
UCLA School of Law alumni salaries ranked fourth among the nation’s law schools in a postgraduate earnings report published last week by the employment site PayScale. Read more...
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October 29, 3:14 am
UCLA faculty to vote on implementing diversity requirement
If faculty vote this week to implement a diversity course requirement, UCLA will become the second to last University of California campus to do so. Among the nine UC campuses with undergraduate student bodies, seven have approved general education requirements in the last 25 years to teach students about structural inequalities and underrepresented groups in California and the U.S. Read more...
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October 29, 3:13 am
Leaked emails reveal partnership between Hillel, PR firm
A rabbi at UCLA Hillel is working with a national public relations firm to strategize against potential divestment resolutions on campus, according to recently leaked emails. Read more...
Photo: According to leaked emails, a rabbi at UCLA Hillel is working with a national public relations firm to strategize against potential divestment resolutions on campus. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)