Monday, April 6



800 Degrees limits pizza of the day special to weekdays

Westwood’s 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria offered a 50 percent-off daily special until last week, when it began selling the 11-inch Neapolitan pizzas for about $4 only on weekdays. Read more...

Photo: Molecular, cell, and developmental biology professor Matteo Pellegrini derived the number of different topping combinations for 800 Degrees’ pizza of the day special. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)


My Last Lecture Award features assistant adjunct professor Randall Rojas

At age 13, Randall Rojas looked to the skies and felt humbled by the serenity and beauty of space. When he first read Albert Einstein’s writings on the forces of nature, he learned about the “theory of everything” – the idea that all physical laws governing the universe can be explained by a single mathematical equation. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus and economics professor Randall Rojas delivered his “Last Lecture” Tuesday, a lecture series where students nominate a professor to give a lecture about what he or she would say if it was the last lecture he or she would ever give. (Mary Kate Turner/Daily Bruin)



USAC passes resolution calling for Gov. Brown to allocate $100M to UC

The undergraduate student council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday asking Gov. Jerry Brown to allocate $100 million to the University of California. Councilmembers think this allocation would make tuition more affordable. Read more...

Photo: USAC unanimously passed a resolution calling for more state funds for the University of California, days before Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to release his annual May Revise budget. (Julie Song/Daily Bruin)