Benjamin Nguyen greeted Irwin Rosentein with a smile and a pat on the back. Like old friends, they sat down at a table and started talking about their day. Read more...
Photo: Second-year psychology student Alejandro Vicente Chavez Suchilt and Rudy Sauser play a game of chess as part of the TimeOut @ UCLA program. (Courtesy of Benjamin Nguyen)
Over two dozen professional and Olympic athletes walked across the orange carpet outside of Pauley Pavilion prior to last week’s Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Awards. These widely renowned sports figures were not there to promote their own image or bring extra attention to themselves. Read more...
Photo: NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan hosted Nickelodeon’s Inaugural Kids’ Choice Sports Awards at Pauley Pavilion last Thursday. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
Juan Llano said he remembers peer tutoring sessions in Campbell Hall where, amid the loud noise and cramped atmosphere, concentrating was sometimes exhausting. Read more...
Photo: UCLA officials began renovating Campbell Hall in January to expand facilities for the Academic Advancement Program. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Nina Byers, a noted physicist who taught at UCLA and helped pave the way for more women in the field, passed away in her Santa Monica home on June 5 because of a hemorrhagic stroke. Read more...
Photo: (UCLA Physics and Astronomy)
Cinthia Flores’s term as the University of California student regent came to an end in June, as Sadia Saifuddin officially took over the role on July 1. Read more...
This post was updated on July 20 at 7:47 p.m. More than a thousand protesters, including several UCLA students and faculty, marched to the Israeli consulate from Westwood’s Federal Building Sunday afternoon urging Israel to stop launching airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, in the latest in a series of local demonstrations from both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine supporters. Read more...
Photo: More than a thousand pro-Palestine protesters marched to the Israeli consulate Sunday afternoon to urge Israel to stop launching air strikes on the Gaza Strip. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A ballot initiative to split California into six states reached the threshold of signatures needed to be included on the November 2016 California election ballot. If it passes, the initiative will have significant ramifications for the University of California, experts said. Read more...
Photo: If passed, a ballot initiative to split up California into several states would have a significant effect on the UC system.
