UCLA graduate schools rank among top 15 in US

Several UCLA graduate schools ranked highly in a U.S. News & World Report survey released Wednesday. U.S. News & World Report listed rankings for schools in areas such as business, education and engineering. The UCLA School of Arts and Architecture tied for No. 2 among fine arts programs, and the David Geffen School of Medicine […]

Westwood Community Council recap – March 15

The Westwood Community Council meets several times a year to discuss issues relevant to the Westwood Village business and residential community. Comments by public officials Carmen Healey, assistant director of UCLA Community and Local Government Relations, introduced Rachel Kennison, assistant director at the Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences, to speak about the UCLA Sustainable LA […]

UCLA to receive $520M for selling rights to cancer drug

UCLA will receive $520 million for selling the rights to a prostate cancer medication that campus researchers helped create, officials announced Friday. The deal granted the royalty rights for Xtandi, a prostate cancer drug, to Royalty Pharma, a pharmaceutical investment company. Royalty Pharma paid a total of $1.14 billion for the royalty rights, $520 million […]

Alumnus’ trust fund donates $11.7M to Herb Alpert School of Music

A UCLA alumnus’ trust fund contributed $11.7 million to the Herb Alpert School of Music, officials announced Monday. David Dobrow, a UCLA pre-medicine alumnus who died in 2013, established a fund that aims to ensure the music school’s long-term financial security, according to a UCLA press release. The David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund, created under […]

Movie Review: ‘Only Yesterday’

In “Only Yesterday,” 27-year-old Taeko Okajima reflected on her fifth-grade self, unable to grasp the concept of dividing simple fractions. “People who understand fractions right away understand life right away,” she says. As I heard Taeko’s words in the theater, I felt the same sense of frustration a child feels when they don’t understand. Director […]

Committee votes to dissolve investigation into GSA president’s actions

Editor’s note: The original version of this article contained numerous errors, which were brought to our attention by several Graduate Students Association officials as well as others. Here are the errors: The committee voted Monday, not Tuesday, to dissolve the investigation. The vote was 8-1, not 5-2. The resolution passed Feb. 10 did not call […]

UCLA Fund to reinstate Senior Class Giving Campaign

This spring, university officials will reinstate a campus-wide campaign that aims to solicit donations from at least 750 senior students after the program stopped for six years. The campus-wide Senior Class Giving Campaign has been accepting donations since fall quarter, but will officially launch the program in the first week of spring quarter, said Brittany […]