The Westwood location of the popular Northern California sandwich chain Ike’s Place is now open and serving hungry customers following a monthslong battle over the property. Read more...
Photo: Ike’s Place opened its first Southern California branch in Westwood Village in late September. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Chancellor Gene Block met with about 30 students and administrators at the Neuroscience Research Building auditorium on Monday afternoon for a question-and-answer session. Block discussed various university goals involving the health sciences, including his plan to increase UCLA’s international ranking through more interdisciplinary partnerships between the sciences and humanities. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block answered students’ questions in a question-and-answer session Monday afternoon. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
At a town hall meeting Monday, students called for the university to appoint a vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion who is culturally competent, creative and direct in addressing diversity issues. Read more...
Photo: Jazz Kiang, a third-year Asian American studies student, and Carole Goldberg, vice chancellor for academic personnel, hear feedback from students at a town hall about the vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion position. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
UCLA plans to appoint about 20 officers in various divisions and schools on campus to advise administrators on diversity issues and assist a new vice chancellor who will focus on diversity. Read more...
Hairs have grayed and voices have gotten thicker, but the memory of their time in India was fresh in the minds of the alumni at the UCLA Faculty Center on Sunday. Read more...
Photo: David Lund, one of organizers of Project India, spoke Sunday at the reception to celebrate a recently published book about the project. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA researchers will receive a $3 million grant to counteract the effects of secondhand smoke among low-income black and Latino families in Los Angeles, officials announced last week. Read more...
Read our feature series about the ongoing Typhoon Yolanda relief missions in the Philippines and the UCLA community's contributions to the recovery. The Daily Bruin spent 19 days in the Philippines talking to survivors, displaced persons and aid agencies about the progress being made in the wake of one of the worst typhoons on record. Read more...
