Friday, April 3

Sur La Table to spice up Westwood with upscale kitchenware selection

Topa Management, a property management company, announced Tuesday a high-end kitchenware store will open in Westwood Village next spring. Sur La Table, which will open at the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Weyburn Avenue, will sell kitchenware and offer on-site cooking classes, said Rick Chancellor, vice president of the McDevitt Company. Read more...

Photo: Topa Management announced Tuesday Sur La Table will open at the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Weyburn Avenue next spring. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)



Westwood BID to ask property owners to increase term to 10 years

The Westwood Village Improvement Association, also known as the BID, will ask property owners to renew its funding for 10 years, instead of the usual three, before the BID’s current term ends in 2017. Read more...

Photo: The business improvement district for Westwood Village will ask property owners for a 10-year renewal, instead of a usual three. Andrew Thomas has been the executive director of the BID since it was created in 2011. (Daily Bruin file photo)



UK artist uses photos as recovery, education on compulsive disorder

In Liz Atkin’s self-portrait, her black tears ran down her face and trailed onto her chest, transforming into scribbles that expressed her anxious feelings. The photograph, which is displayed in the David Geffen School of Medicine, is one in a series illustrating her experience with a compulsive skin picking disorder. Read more...

Photo: Liz Atkin, a visual artist from the U.K., came to the David Geffen School of Medicine to talk about her experiences with mental illness with medical students. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Three-year degree pathways to combat looming tuition increase

The vice provost of undergraduate education formalized three-year plans for about 30 majors in an attempt to prompt students to graduate early, following a push from Gov. Read more...

Photo: Vice Provost Patricia Turner is working with Gov. Jerry Brown to create three-year schedules for the 15 most popular majors at UCLA, including chemical engineering and psychology, among others, by June 2017.