New Amazon Lockers provide students package delivery alternative

UCLA Housing and Amazon.com officials installed yellow and blue Amazon Lockers on the Hill last week, offering students a new way to pick up packages from the e-commerce site. The electronic self-service lockers are available on the first floors of Hedrick Hall, Rieber Hall and Covel Commons, near the front desk of De Neve Commons […]

UCLA student dies in Westwood apartment building in possible suicide

This post was updated on Dec. 13 at 5:39 p.m. A UCLA student died in his Westwood apartment early Saturday morning in what police are investigating as a possible suicide. Firefighters found the fourth-year economics student in a smoke-filled room when they responded to what was reported as a structure fire at 1:05 a.m. Saturday, […]

Panhellenic sororities engage in sing-off

Members of UCLA’s sororities will sing, dance and perform in the third annual Sorority Sing Off Monday night. All 14 Panhellenic sororities will participate in the show, battling each other in a cappella-style performances. Judges will end the night by giving awards, including one for best overall rendition. The sing-off, themed “Musical Genres,” will be […]

Man sentenced to year in jail for YRL, UCLA Store laptop thefts

A former UCLA student was sentenced to a year in jail Monday after accepting a plea bargain for stealing more than 50 laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library and Ackerman Union this year. At a preliminary hearing Monday, Seyed Ali Pakizehkar Hesari, 29, pleaded no contest to one count of grand theft and […]

Man steals packages from Venice/Barry student apartments

University police recently released surveillance images of a man wanted for stealing packages from the mail room of a UCLA graduate student apartment complex late last month. Police said the man entered the mail room of the Venice/Barry apartment complex, about 4 1/2 miles south of UCLA, around 7:40 p.m. on Nov. 20. He then […]

Five UCLA researchers chosen as 2014 AAAS fellows

Five UCLA researchers were recently named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest scientific society. Current members of the association selected UCLA researchers Linda Gwen Baum, Ann M. Hirsch, Michael Stephen Levine, Pamela Munro and Dwight W. Read as new AAAS fellows last week. Fellows are selected based on […]