UCLA’s Young Americans for Liberty hosted a controversial “affirmative action bake sale” on Bruin Walk today, sparking backlash from some members of the UCLA community. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA chapter of Young Americans for Liberty hosted an “affirmative action bake sale” on campus today, which prompted a protest by members of the community.
Reports of racial bias and discrimination among faculty at UCLA have spurred changes in university policies and procedures for addressing claims of discrimination – a move that some faculty members say is a first step to remedy a larger institutional problem. Read more...
Vijay Dhir, the dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, recently announced his plans to step down as dean in June 2015. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
A collection of black and white photographs lie scattered on a table in front of David Shapiro in his UCLA psychophysiology lab. He picks up a picture, yellowing with age, of a young man grinning broadly and wearing a crisply pressed military uniform. Read more...
Photo: David Shapiro, a UCLA professor emeritus in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, studies psychophysiology and health psychology.
Christopher Waterman stood in the theater lobby four hours before his first Musicians’ Union gig and nervously played his bass arrangement over and over. He was 19 years old and had recently left his home in Florida to attend college in Boston and become a professional musician – a decision that would bring him to dozens of towns and cities across the United States and lead him toplay with artists such as Zoot Sims, Larry Coryell and the Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey orchestras. Read more...
A professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Fernando Torres-Gil, will be awarded the John Gardner Legacy of Leadership Award in Washington, D.C. on Friday. Read more...
