As part of a student-led campaign, members of a newly formed coalition at UCLA are pushing to pass a proposition in the upcoming midterm election that would reduce sentences for minor crimes. Read more...
Photo: Undergraduate Students Association Council President Devin Murphy discusses the Invest in Graduation, Not Incarceration, Transform Education campaign with other students. (Joseph Chan/Daily Bruin)
About 25 UCLA students rallied Monday on the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Americas to protest historical violence toward and colonization of indigenous peoples in America. Read more...
Photo: Catherine Recinos, a second-year law student, joined other students in a rally Monday to protest historical violence toward indigenous peoples in America. (Tamaryn Kong/Daily Bruin)
On Sunday, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA held a party to reunite families who have spent time at the neonatal intensive care unit taking care of their premature newborns. Read more...
UCLA scientists recently received a $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue research on a new potential treatment for lung cancer. The treatment, developed by Leonard Rome and Dr. Read more...
Editor’s Note: Over the next 22 weeks, Bruin reporter Katie Shepherd will be training for the Asics L.A. Marathon and writing a weekly column chronicling her experiences along the way. Read more...
Dr. Uday Devaskar rode the near-52 miles home from UCLA to Oxnard in a private ambulance with prematurely born Ione Villanueva in 2001. When they arrived, family and friends were waiting for Ione, who was able to spend time in her crib with her twin sister, Macy, before she died from liver failure in her mother’s arms about an hour later. Read more...
Photo: Stephanie Crisostomo holds her 11-month-old daughter, Willow, in her arms at the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA reunion. Willow was born three months premature and struggled to breathe because of medical problems at birth. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Dozens of local residents and business owners voiced concerns to the Westwood Neighborhood Council Wednesday about two motions passed by the council in September asking authorities to investigate local Iranian storefront signs. Read more...
