This post was updated Oct. 20 at 10:50 p.m. More than a year after the city of Los Angeles placed restrictions on where people can sleep or camp in public spaces across Westwood, controversy over the limitations’ effectiveness in addressing homeless encampments remains. Read more...
Photo: Westwood Village is pictured. Researchers and community members raised concerns that anticamping zones in Westwood do not effectively address homelessness. (Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct. 20 at 10:55 p.m. Students celebrated Filipino and Latino culture at an art gallery in Kerckhoff Hall on Oct. 14. The Filipinx/Latinx Art Gallery was hosted in partnership between three Cultural Affairs Commission programs – The Word on Wednesday, WorldFest and Art Series – and Empowering Latines Against Struggle, a student-run cultural organization. Read more...
Photo: Eliseo Art Silva’s two paintings, “Kayumanggi Ina ng Kalifornia-Brown Madonna of California” (left) and “Sixto Lopez Arriving in Manila Village in 1903” (right), are pictured. Students celebrated Filipino and Latino cultures through visual art, poetry, music and a documentary screening in Kerckhoff Hall on Oct. 14. (Courtesy of Sashi Atkinson Osorio)
Interim Chief Financial Officer Reem Hanna-Harwell said in a March campuswide email that UCLA’s budget deficit was projected to be $220 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year. Read more...
Photo: Murphy Hall is pictured. UCLA has published few details about the specific measures it took to shrink its deficit to $58 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
This post was updated Oct. 18 at 11:13 p.m. 26 Pho Cafe, a Vietnamese restaurant, opened in Westwood on Oct. 4. Located on Glendon Avenue, 26 Pho Cafe offers Vietnamese-inspired dishes including pho, bánh mì and vermicelli noodles, as well as drinks such as Vietnamese coffee with ube and black sesame cream and Thai milk tea. Read more...
Photo: 26 Pho Cafe’s Westwood storefront is pictured. The Vietnamese-inspired restaurant will hold soft opening events during October before its grand opening planned for November. (Joice Ngo/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Oct. 20 at 5:11 p.m. A UCLA-affiliated research institute plans to revolutionize the liver transplant process by using up to a $19.8 million grant to create functional organs from cells. Read more...
Photo: The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation is leading Prometheus, a new project with researchers from UCLA, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University and other institutions to address a critical shortage of donor organs. (Courtesy of Angelica Cuanenem)
This post was updated Oct. 18 at 11:06 p.m. Rotisserie chickens, free samples and everything sold in bulk are the focus of a new club on campus. Read more...
Photo: Members of the UCLA Costco club pose for a photo. The club allows students to bond over their shared love for the store and aims to help them buy ingredients in bulk for their meals. (Aiden Martinez/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Oct. 18 at 11:09 p.m. All public undergraduate college students in California now automatically pass the first barrier to applying to CalFresh, giving more than 200,000 additional students access to the food assistance program. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Community Programs Office is pictured. All public undergraduate college students in California now clear the first barrier to applying for CalFresh. (Daily Bruin file photo)
