This post was updated on Feb. 8 at 7:28 p.m. Emergency teams rescued eight members of the Hiking Club at UCLA in the Angeles National Forest Sunday morning after the students missed a turn while hiking in the snow. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department search and rescue team members brought eight members of the UCLA Hiking Club to their cars Sunday after the students became lost in the snow. (LASD)
The University of California Student Association passed two resolutions Sunday calling for the University to divest from American companies that some say profit from alleged human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as several governments including the U.S. that some say commit human rights violations. Read more...
On Friday, an L.A. couple pleaded no contest to charges in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a UCLA alumnus in 2013, officials said. In late 2013, 23-year-old UCLA alumnus and filmmaker David Pregerson died after a car struck him while he was walking on Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades. Read more...
University police are looking for a man who robbed a UCLA employee at a Westwood ATM on Thursday. The employee told police a man approached him from behind at a Bank of America automated teller machine at 6:15 p.m. Read more...
A nurse at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was found dead in her Long Beach home Wednesday, police said in a press release. Paramedics found nurse Sayuri Jean Griffin, 57, and her husband, Salvador Trujillo, 57, in their home at about 3 p.m., according to a Long Beach Police Department press release. Read more...
This post was updated on Feb. 6 at 7:38 p.m. Student government leaders and a state senator led a rally Friday at Bruin Plaza for a proposed state constitutional amendment that would give more power to the Legislature in controlling the University of California. Read more...
Photo: California State Senator Ricardo Lara rallied Friday at Bruin Plaza for his Senate Constitutional Amendment 1. (Manvel Kapukchyan/Daily Bruin)
UCLA announced Friday the new dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science who will begin her term next January. Jayathi Murthy, who is currently the chair and a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, will become the new dean effective Jan. Read more...
Photo: Jayathi Murthy was appointed the new dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective next January. (UCLA Newsroom)
