Wednesday, July 29

Sustainability committee to boost campus dialogue

The seed of sustainability has grown at UCLA over the past year and now it is branching into the chancellor’s office. As part of an effort to continue to educate students about the importance of sustainability, Chancellor Albert Carnesale recently signed a charter establishing the Campus Sustainability Committee as a permanent advisory body to his office, with a full-time professional campus coordinator. Read more...


Council optimistic about split

Newly elected undergraduate student government officials are likely to face opposition in the coming year because the council is equally divided between slates, with no single slate holding a majority of seats on council. Read more...


Runoffs yield close results

With slim margins determining every race in the Undergraduate Students Association Council runoff elections Thursday night, Bruins United and Students First! each won five seats on the council. Read more...



[Science&Health] Proteins aid ovarian cancer treatments

UCLA scientists recently discovered a panel of four proteins that enabled them to detect early-stage ovarian cancer with around 99 percent accuracy. This breakthrough will impact the lives of many women because “it enables the detection of ovarian cancer in its earliest stages, which creates the hope for a better survival rate,” said Srinivasa T. Read more...


Regents publicly support Dynes

BY RICHARD CLOUGH Bruin senior staff [email protected] SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; The UC Board of Regents affirmed its support for President Robert Dynes during the board’s meeting Thursday and pledged to move forward as the regents attempt to repair the university’s compensation system that has been at the heart of an ongoing controversy. Read more...