UCLA professor ranked highest faculty member UCLA engineering professor Chand Viswanathan is now the highest-ranking faculty member in the University of California system since assuming the UC Academic Senate chair position Sept. Read more...

By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Reporter With the start of the new school year, the Associated Students of UCLA has introduced several changes to campus restaurants. Read more...

By Hemesh Patel Daily Bruin Senior Staff With pressure from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, the human resources department at the Medical Center launched a new deployment program. Read more...

  Dora Menchaca Dora Menchaca, 45, of Santa Monica, died on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Cynthia Tomayo, a ’97 UCLA graduate who is a distant relative of Menchaca, wants the UCLA community to know, “A fellow Bruin was on one of the planes.” Menchaca, the associate director of clinical research for the biotech firm Amgen Inc., earned her Ph.D. Read more...

Danielle Mai Ting Jue Danielle Mai Ting Jue, 19, died Sept. 9 following a river rafting accident on Cache Creek. Jue entered UCLA as an undeclared freshman last year with aspirations of becoming a lawyer. Read more...

By Michaele Turnage Daily Bruin Senior Staff In the past two weeks, an Indian man has been shot to death, firebombings have occurred at mosques, shots have been fired at an Afghani home, a local university student was followed home by gun-wielding men and school children have been beaten. Read more...