Monday, April 13

Three recently appointed NWWNC members aim to improve community, UCLA engagement

Three newly appointed neighborhood council members hope to increase student awareness of issues in Westwood. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council appointed Nina Long, Nuha Khalfay and Furkan Yalcin as council members at its Sept. Read more...

Photo: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council appointed Nina Long, Nuha Khalfay and Furkan Yalcin as council members at its Sept. 2 meeting. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)




Prince of Venice to bring royally delicious, authentic Italian food to Westwood

A piece of home-cooked Italian cuisine will make its debut in Westwood this month despite a rising vacancy rate in the Village. The restaurant, called Prince of Venice, is set to open at 1091 Broxton Ave. Read more...

Photo: The new Italian restaurant Prince of Venice will open in Westwood in mid-October, offering a taste of home-cooked Italian cuisine. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA professor shares 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for black hole breakthroughs

This post was updated Oct. 11 at 9:51 p.m. A UCLA professor won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics after she helped discover a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, announced the Nobel Prize Organisation on Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: Andrea Ghez, a physics and astronomy professor, won the 2020 Nobel prize in physics for her contributions to the discovery of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. She is the fourth woman to win a physics Nobel Prize and the eighth UCLA professor to win a Nobel Prize. (Courtesy of Christopher Dibble/UCLA Newsroom)


Students, professors report multiple incidents of Zoombombing in one day

This post was updated Oct. 11 at 6:00 p.m. Zoombombers attacked multiple professors and students with racist and homophobic slurs on Monday. Zoombombing, when people disrupt Zoom meetings by verbally attacking attendees, occurred during remote UCLA classes at least twice Monday. Read more...

Photo: Zoombombers disrupted at least two online UCLA classrooms Monday, attacking users with racist and homophobic slurs. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)


Contract negotiations between UC-AFT Local 1990 and UC likely to reach impasse

This post was updated Oct. 5 at 12:50 a.m. The contract negotiations between the UCLA lecturers union and the University of California are deadlocked, as the UC braces for budget cuts amid financial deficits. Read more...

Photo: University Council-American Federation of Teachers Local 1990 remains in negotiation deadlock with the University California, dropping demands of higher salaries to ensure job security amid the pandemic. (Bernard Mendez/Daily Bruin senior staff)