Bright yellow and blue balloons and tents with signs that read "Welcome Future Bruins" filled UCLA this weekend as thousands of admitted students and their families streamed onto campus for the second annual Bruin Day. Read more...
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Accepted students and their families walk on Janss Steps to and from Wilson Plaza during Bruin Day on Saturday.
There have been more than 20 burglaries and attempted burglaries since September at university apartments on Sepulveda and Sawtelle boulevards and Rose and Keystone avenues, in a set of graduate student apartment complexes called University Apartments South, according to a recent report released by the UCPD. Read more...
On Thursday night, the upstairs room of the Westwood Brewing Company was temporarily transformed into a barbershop for Brew-N-Shave, an event hosted by UCLA geography lecturer Justin Wilford to raise money for children's cancer research. Read more...
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UCLA lecturer Justin Wilford sits with his daughter Maesie at Westwood Brew Co. Thursday night as he has his head shaved in a fundraiser for children’s cancer research. Wilford hosted the event, inspired by his 5-year-old son Max, who is currently fighting brain cancer.
Estrin had a "boyish curiosity," said Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. Read more...
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Gerald Estrin
Confusion erupted earlier in the week when the UCLA Financial Aid Office sent out an email to admitted and wait-listed students notifying them that their grant aid had been increased. Read more...
To say that Brenton Allen likes shoes would be an understatement. Read more...
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Second-year psychology student Brenton Allen started the UCLA chapter of the Soles4Souls organization that collects shoes and gives them to children in need.
Dozens of UCLA students donned hoods and carried posters with the message, "Do I look suspicious?" to campus Wednesday night to memorialize Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Florida teenager who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watchman in late February. Read more...
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Third-year economics major Luis Mendoza holds a sign containing his response to the Trayvon Martin murder.
