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...
This year is about you. As one of the university’s oldest institutions, the Daily Bruin has spent almost a century telling the stories of people that cross paths at this university. Read more...
Some staff members in undergraduate student government offices will not see their pay increase this year, though their stipend caps were raised last month. In early August, members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to increase their monthly stipends from $355 to $672 in a 8-1-0 vote. Read more...
Bruin Plate, the first health-themed dining hall on the Hill, is scheduled to open this fall in Sproul Presidio, a new building that will house the dining hall, a multipurpose room and a fitness center. Read more...
Photo: A new dining hall opening in Sproul Presidio this fall will be the first health-themed dining option on the Hill.
Les Plesko, an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and a recipient of an outstanding faculty award, died Sept. 16. He was 59. Plesko's students said they knew him as an excellent teacher and devoted writer who used a blend of humor and honesty to encourage others to pursue writing. Read more...
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Faculty and administrators in UCLA’s Humanities department welcomed more than 400 new and returning students Wednesday, asking them to consider pursuing a major or taking courses in humanities. Read more...
Photo: Professors, students, administrators and alumni gathered Wednesday afternoon to talk about the benefits of taking classes in the humanities.
