The Los Angeles Superior Court suspended former UCLA obstetrician-gynecologist James Heaps’ medical license in a court hearing July 30. The interim suspension against Heaps will last for the duration of the criminal sexual assault case against him. Read more...
Photo: James Heaps (left) and attorney Tracy Green (right) appeared in court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing. During the hearing, Heaps’ medical license was suspended. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated July 30 at 10:25 a.m. Updates to the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project include higher cost estimates, projected ridership numbers and plans for more public input. Read more...
Photo: Metro project managers released estimated costs and ridership figures for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project. Proposed lines are set to go from the Van Nuys Metrolink Station to the Metro Expo Line. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: What are rip currents and why are they important? Read more...
Photo: (Cody Wilson/Daily Bruin contributor)
This post was updated Aug. 8 at 4:51 p.m. Playing music with friends at sunset on a Malibu mountaintop can be described in many ways. For Caley Versfelt, the best word to use is “funtastic.” “It’s a word that I made up that’s fantastic and fun together,” Versfelt said. Read more...
Photo: Alumni band Hello Noon partnered with Special Olympics Southern California for their newest music video, which has received over 40,000 views. The band and Special Olympics members said their favorite moment during filming came when they got lost and decided spontaneously to film themselves playing their instruments on a mountaintop. (Courtesy of Stephen Spies)
Undergraduate students will receive free blue books and Scantrons as part of a student government-led initiative. The Undergraduate Students Association Council allocated $15,000 to Associated Students UCLA as part of USAC President Robert Watson’s affordability initiative July 17. Read more...
Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Daily Bruin contributor)
UCLA offered admission to almost 19,000 students for the 2019-2020 year, a dip of nearly 3,000 students from last year, according to a university press release Monday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA admitted almost 19,000 students for the 2019-2020 academic year, a dip of nearly 3,000 students from the previous year. The university’s admission rate dropped from about 15.7% in 2018 to about 14% in 2019. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UC Berkeley has been removed from the U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings after notifying the media outlet that it misreported data. The university, which was the No. Read more...
Photo: UC Berkeley has been removed from the U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings after notifying the media outlet that it misreported its two-year average alumni giving rate, which accounts for 5% of the overall score for the rankings. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
