Friday, October 16

Students, faculty urge UCs to safeguard undocumented immigrants

UCLA faculty and students want to make the university a sanctuary campus for minority groups, including undocumented students. Lauren Duquette-Rury, assistant professor of sociology, penned a letter to the University of California Academic Senate that calls for the University to establish legal services for undocumented students and staff, and denounce hate speech towards all groups on campus. Read more...

Photo: Students and faculty have pushed the University of California to establish concrete programs to help and protect undocumented students. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)


UCLA groups enter grant competition to improve LA for the future

Two UCLA-affiliated groups are competing for $100,000 grants, which they would use to improve Los Angeles. More than 280 organizations submitted proposals to the My LA2050 Grants Challenge. Read more...

Photo: The South Bay Center for Counseling entered the My LA2050 Grants Challenge with a project called Co/Lab that would help county residents form neighborhood advocacy groups to address local issues. (Courtesy of Chandelle Wiede)


UC Regents recap – Nov. 17

The University of California Regents, the governing body of the UC, met Thursday for its bimonthly board meeting at UC San Francisco. Regents presented reports from committees and voted on items approved in committee from Wednesday. Read more...



Westwood BID recap – Nov. 17

The Westwood Village Improvement Association, also known as the BID, is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. Property and business owners created the association in 2011 to provide Westwood Village with functions the city of Los Angeles could not provide. Read more...


UC Regents recap – Nov. 16

The University of California Regents, the governing body of the UC, met Wednesday for its bimonthly board meeting at UC San Francisco. Regents discussed the results of federal and state elections, the board’s dedication to inclusion and diversity and addressing misconduct by regents done outside University business. Read more...


Professor’s lecture sparks debate about FDA drug approval process

One academic believes that an excessive amount of resources is wasted on the hasty pursuance of drug trials, which don’t always generate conclusive results. However, UCLA Health officials think that the drug approval process is relatively efficient. Read more...

Photo: Jonathan Kimmelman, a biomedical ethics professor at McGill University, spoke to medical students and healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical ethics at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Tuesday. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)