UCLA offered admission to almost 19,000 students for the 2019-2020 year, a dip of nearly 3,000 students from last year, according to a university press release Monday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA admitted almost 19,000 students for the 2019-2020 academic year, a dip of nearly 3,000 students from the previous year. The university’s admission rate dropped from about 15.7% in 2018 to about 14% in 2019. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UC Berkeley has been removed from the U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings after notifying the media outlet that it misreported data. The university, which was the No. Read more...
Photo: UC Berkeley has been removed from the U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings after notifying the media outlet that it misreported its two-year average alumni giving rate, which accounts for 5% of the overall score for the rankings. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated July 24 at 3:14 p.m. A former UCLA football player was arrested Thursday in connection to an alleged attempt to rob a Riverside County medical marijuana dispensary in 2016, several outlets report. Read more...
Photo: Craig Lee, a former running back for UCLA, was arrested July 18 for his alleged complicity in a 2016 armed robbery of a medical marijuana dispensary in Riverside County. He has been charged with one count of attempted second-degree robbery and one count of attempted murder. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The University of California Board of Regents appointed a new executive vice president for UC Health on Thursday, according to a University press release. Carrie Byington, a clinician, educator and researcher, was appointed to help lead UC Health’s five academic medical centers and 18 health professional schools across the UCs. Read more...
Photo: Carrie Byington was appointed as the new executive vice president of UC Health by the University of California Board of Regents on Thursday (Courtesy of Texas A&M University Health Science Center).
UCLA students and professors said they are optimistic about the potential impact of the University of California’s recent changes to its admissions process to prevent admissions fraud. Read more...
Photo: The University of California announced changes to its admissions processes June 20 based on the findings of a recent audit. The UC initiated the audit following the recent admissions scandal. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Lisa Gantz spent a month during her medical training working at a legal clinic along the Texas-Mexico border, and visited several detention centers in the area. Read more...
Photo: Student groups UndocuMed Students and Allies at UCLA and Immigrant Youth Task Force at UCLA held a vigil last week to call attention to inhumane conditions at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immigrant detention centers on the U.S.-Mexico border. Speakers discussed their personal experiences and what they saw when they visited the centers. (Courtesy of UndocuMed Students and Allies at UCLA)
UCLA researchers found higher than average levels of various toxic air pollutants in residential areas near the largest gas leak in U.S. history. In a study published in Environment International last month, researchers found that methane released in the 2015 Aliso Canyon blowout is linked to higher levels of other hazardous air pollutants in nearby communities such as Porter Ranch and Northridge. Read more...
Photo: (Cody Wilson/Daily Bruin)
