Gene Block, the lively and rosy-cheeked provost from the University of Virginia, was named the next chancellor of UCLA during Thursday’s UC Board of Regents meeting, ending a year-long search for UCLA’s ninth chief executive. Read more...

Gene D. Block, provost at the University of Virginia, will take the position of UCLA’s next permanent chancellor, pending approval by the UC Board of Regents at a meeting Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Read more...

The ninth UCLA chancellor is scheduled to be named after top UC executives meet Thursday to make a final vote. The University of California Board of Regents plans to make a vote of approval on the top running candidate for the job of UCLA’s chief executive officer, as well as the compensation package for the appointee. Read more...

Personal information of approximately 800,000 present and former UCLA students, staff and faculty was compromised after someone hacked into a university database, in what officials say is apparently the largest incident of its kind at a college or university. Read more...

The van wasn’t rocking and the windows weren’t steamed, but its location in an empty corner of the parking lot and a haphazardly positioned blue sheet in a large side window alerted UCPD Officer Dan Jermansen that there might be some people inside the van who, as he called it, “needed some privacy.” Officer Tom Krueger quickly stopped the patrol car that had been cruising through Parking Lot 11, and both he and Jermansen jumped out, flashlights shining into the van. Read more...

As just about anyone living in Westwood knows, parking in the Village is a nightmare. A parking spot in an all-day zone is a coveted commodity ““ students can be seen spending up to an hour babysitting their cars to make sure they can get a spot after street cleaning is over. Read more...

Eighteen students sit in a classroom and chat as they await the arrival of their teacher Wednesday afternoon. But rather than speaking to each other in English, they are talking in Russian. Read more...