Thursday, November 12

UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department votes to remove César E. Chávez from its name

This post was updated March 19 at 10:45 a.m. UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department unanimously voted Wednesday afternoon to remove César E. Chávez from its name following sexual abuse allegations against the labor leader. Read more...

Photo: Bunche Hall, which houses UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department, is pictured. The department unanimously voted Wednesday afternoon to remove César E. Chávez from its name amid sexual abuse allegations against the labor leader. However, only Chancellor Julio Frenk and UC President James Milliken have the authority to rename UCLA properties and programs, according to University policy. (Amelia Chief/Daily Bruin senior staff)


EVP office hosts fair promoting wellness resources, student health organizations

The Basic Needs Farmers Market and Health Fair connected hundreds of students with underused wellness resources. The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s External Vice President, Sherry Zhou, hosted the fair in Wilson Plaza. Read more...

Photo: Students mull around Wilson Plaza. The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Office of the External Vice President hosted a fair in February highlighting student health organizations. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC Regents committee recommends $351 million for UCLA student housing project

This post was updated March 19 at 1:15 p.m. The UC Board of Regents’s Finance and Capital Strategies Committee recommended a budget of $351 million to build new UCLA student housing on Levering Ave. Read more...

Photo: Michael Cohen, the chair of the UC Board of Regents Finance and Capital Strategies Committee, sits next to other UC Regents at their March meeting. The committee he chairs recommended an allocation of $351 million on Wednesday to fund new student housing. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UC approves $298.2 million budget to convert LA building into UCLA Health complex

The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex. The project will convert an office building in El Segundo into UCLA Health South Bay, which will house a Sports Medicine Institute and create community fill and specialty pharmacies. Read more...

Photo: Michael Cohen, the chair of the UC Board of Regent’s finance and capital strategies committee, is pictured. The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex during the committee’s Wednesday meeting. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)



UCLA Health is leading the effort to treat and destigmatize addiction

This post was updated April 2 at 10:06 p.m. Dr. Julio Meza lost two family members to addiction-related illnesses when he was a child. Now, as a UCLA Health physician, he leads a program providing doctors with addiction-specific training. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Gonda building, which houses the Brain Research Institute that hosts the UCLA Integrative Center for Addictive Disorders, is pictured. (Michael Gallagher/Assistant Photo editor)


‘Just trying to advance your work’: Mark Tramo’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein

A UCLA professor sought donations from and spoke about his scientific research with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the financier’s initial 2008 conviction, according to U.S. Read more...

Photo: Schoenberg Hall, one building where Mark Tramo – an associate adjunct professor of neurology – has taught, is pictured. A UCLA professor sought donations from and spoke about his scientific research with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the financier’s initial 2008 conviction, according to U.S. Department of Justice documents. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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