As he paced in front of a class of about two dozen students, William “Ajax” Peris appeared assured and calm. He displayed the same confident demeanor that helped him succeed at testing heat-seeking missiles and monitoring no-fly zones in Iraq throughout the 1990s, after the first Gulf War. Read more...
Photo: William Peris, 44, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a teaching assistant at UCLA.
University of California student leaders passed a resolution Sunday calling for reform of the California Master Plan for Higher Education because they think it fails to accommodate for accessibility, racial and economic diversity, and advances in technology. Read more...
A proposal to make the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies into its own department is in its final stages of review almost a year after the proposal was originally submitted. Read more...
University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Monday a new student veteran advisory group, another one of her efforts to connect with particular groups of students. Read more...
Two UCLA students were arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a discarded Christmas tree outside a building in the North Village Monday morning, police officials said. Read more...
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge recently filed a $10 million claim for damages against university police, claiming two UCPD officers used excessive force after stopping him in Westwood for a seatbelt violation. Read more...
Bernard M. K. Nefkens, a world-renowned experimental elementary particle physicist who worked in the UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department for nearly 50 years, died Jan. 10 after being diagnosed with a form of dementia. Read more...
Photo: Bernard Nefken’s students said their UCLA physics professor was innovative in his teaching and let them carry out their own experiments in his class.
