The UC Regents met this week to discuss the fiscal performance of the University, employment for students without legal status, and tuition and admissions changes to certain policies. Read more...
Photo: The Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center is pictured. At the end of the public comment period, protesters were removed from the room after chanting for higher wages. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated May 31 at 5:20 p.m. Rafik Wahbi’s favorite memory at UCLA is a simple one: Eating warm-in-your-belly chili on a crisp day, playing his Darbuka outside Bunche Hall and talking with other graduate students about the nerdy things graduate students talk about. Read more...
Photo: People pick up food from a table set up near Bunche Hall during the United Auto Workers strike. The Kitchen Committee, which was set up during the UAW union strike but remains open now, aims to create a close community among food-insecure graduate students. (Courtesy of Kitchen Committee)
Chris Roberts was born to be a broadcaster, according to his longtime radio partner and mentee Matt Stevens. “They enjoyed listening to Chris because it was Chris,” Stevens said. Read more...
Photo: Chris Roberts, a longtime broadcaster for UCLA basketball and football teams, died May 12. (Courtesy of Scott Chandler/UCLA Athletics)
The Westwood Village Improvement Association received permits from the city of Los Angeles to implement the Broxton Plaza Project, a plan to transform part of Broxton Avenue into a pedestrian-only walkway by summer. Read more...
Photo: Broxton Plaza is pictured. The Westwood Village Improvement Association will transform the area into a pedestrian-only walkway by July. (Ethan Manafi/Daily Bruin staff)
The David Geffen School of Medicine’s inaugural class of Bruin Scholars has started working on projects to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in health care. Dr. Read more...
Photo: Members of the David Geffen School of Medicine’s inaugural class of Bruin Scholars are pictured. The Bruin Scholars program recruits current medical residents and fellows at UCLA and provides them with funding and mentorship, allowing them to develop projects that address equity, diversity and inclusion in healthcare. (Courtesy of Reed Hutchinson)
A UCLA-sponsored artist unveiled the Grieving Sun Mural, a community artwork project aimed at shedding light on the power of collective grief, on Wednesday. The mural, which was created by UCLA arts faculty and members of the wider Los Angeles community, was unveiled outside Perloff Hall alongside a soundscape of music, bird calls and recordings of people telling their stories of grief playing from nearby temporarily installed speakers. Read more...
Photo: Marlené Nancy Lopez, the activist-in-residence for cityLAB, unveiled the mural Wednesday. The mural will be at Perloff Hall until Friday. (Halinda Yu/Daily Bruin)
A power outage Thursday forced Epicuria at Covel, one of UCLA’s residential restaurants, to close early. The dining hall, which offers Mediterranean food to students on the Hill, closed early Thursday evening, over an hour before its normal closing time of 9 p.m. Read more...
Photo: The interior of the residential restaurant Epicuria at Covel is pictured. The dining hall closed early Thursday evening following a power outage that also caused flickering lights in other dining halls and university housing. (Daily Bruin file photo)
