Virginia Steel, the newly announced university librarian, said she hopes to focus on digitization of library materials and efficient spending when she relocates to UCLA this summer. Read more...
Photo: Virginia Steel will take over from Gary Strong as university librarian this July.
Stanley Dashew, the businessman who founded the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars at UCLA, died last week of natural causes. He was 96. Read more...
He worked as a forklift driver, a bartender and served in the army. Read more...
Photo: Russell Burgos, a lecturer in the Global Studies Interdepartmental Program, will deliver the fourth annual student-nominated My Last Lecture tonight.
Raul, an 11-year-old boy from Honduras, took care of his five siblings, who had chronic malnutrition and asthma. Read more...
Photo: Panelists discuss the thought process behind UCLA’s Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America at an inaugural event held on Wednesday.
The original version of this article contained information that was unclear and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Several University of California campuses plan to withdraw from the UC Student Health Insurance Plan, after a council of UC chancellors endorsed the move, among others, today. Read more...
Official student group representatives will gather at 6 p.m. Wednesday evening in Ackerman Grand Ballroom for the Undergraduate Students Association Council election endorsement hearing. Read more...
Yuletpsi Barreto, along with many students who shop online, relies on convenient Internet discounts to buy electronics, textbooks and other college necessities. But a new proposal in Congress aims to even out the competition between local and online retailers. Read more...
