The board of the Westwood Business Improvement District, a nonprofit organization that works to improve the area on behalf of local business owners, voted last Thursday to raise the salaries of two its executive staffers, a move that angered some Westwood residents. Read more...
Photo: Andrew Thomas, the executive director of the Westwood Business Improvement District, said his salary increace will not affect local projects.
After finalizing its liquor license Wednesday afternoon, the restaurant began serving a limited selection of bottled wine and beer today. Read more...
Photo: Wolfgang Puck Express opened on the first floor of Ackerman Union on Sept. 18 after almost a year of construction.
The movie Don Jon is set to show at UCLA at 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday in Melnitz Hall, after technical difficulties prevented it from playing at Bruin Bash Sunday. Read more...
The Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation recently donated $3 million to UCLA to create an endowment aimed at making college more affordable for foster-care students. Read more...
Construction for a new $120 million teaching center at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine began Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony. The Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences will open in 2016 on the corner of Tiverton Drive and Le Conte Avenue. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block was among the university officials who ceremoniously broke ground on a new medical school building Wednesday.
Tucked away in the streets of Koreatown with a rainbow stripe painted across its buildings, Leo Politi Elementary School stood warm and welcoming. Several elementary students formed a pathway Tuesday morning, in which their eagerly awaited guests – about 200 UCLA students – were greeted on each side.The school, which houses the highest percentage of students from low-income backgrounds in the Los Angeles Unified School District, was one of more than 50 sites UCLA students visited on the fifth-annual Volunteer Day. Read more...
