Tuesday, April 7

Man hits UCLA hospital employee with metal baton in Santa Monica

University police are searching for a man wanted for hitting an employee with a metal baton at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center on Friday. About 11:40 p.m. Read more...

Photo: University police are searching for a man wanted for hitting an employee at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center with a metal baton Friday. (UCLA Newsroom)



United Khmer Students’ Culture Night weaves together folk tales, dances

The United Khmer Students at UCLA, family and friends came together Sunday night to showcase Cambodian culture with student performances, weaving together traditional folk tales and dances at the 18th annual Culture Night. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year marine biology student Irrawaddy Lamouth performed as one of the lead characters in the United Khmer Students’ Culture Night. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)


Archaeologist Hans Barnard excavates, educates using STEM background

Webs of wire line the walls of UCLA’s Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, a brightly lit room stuffed with chemical machines. An archaeologist in a pinstriped lab coat stands in the middle of the room, cradling his homemade Egyptian pot in one hand and test tubes of finely ground pottery in the other. Read more...

Photo: Hans Barnard, an assistant adjunct professor at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has crisscrossed the globe to analyze ancient societies in locales such as Chile, Peru and Tunisia. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)


Patient safety scores low at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center’s patient safety scores severely lag behind those of comparable institutions, particularly because of preventable incidents such as post-surgery infections and dangerous objects left in patients, according to a hospital safety group. Read more...

Photo: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center’s patient safety scores severely lag behind those of comparable institutions, particularly because of preventable incidents like foreign objects left inside patients, according to a hospital safety group. (Daily Bruin file photo)