UCPD looks for man who brandished handgun at student

University police are looking for a man who brandished a handgun at a UCLA student on Landfair Avenue Thursday night. The UCLA student was walking south on Landfair Avenue near Midvale Avenue around midnight when she came up to a man pacing on the sidewalk. He lifted his shirt to show a handgun tucked in […]

UCLA fulfills year-old public records request, seven others pending

A former Daily Bruin reporter recently received records of emails between UCLA researchers and professors who coordinated efforts to resist participation in her story, a year after she requested them. Former staffer Sonali Kohli first requested emails in September 2013 after traveling to Malawi in southeast Africa to report on healthcare in the region with […]

Westwood’s last newsstand, a community fixture, to close

Don’t ask Karl Johansson about his favorite magazine or newspaper. Though he has been working at the Village Center Newsstand for more than two decades, he rarely reads the products he sells. For him, the job is more about forming connections with the community. “If you stand in people’s path every day for 20 years, […]

Damaged water tank forces UniCamp to cancel first session

UniCamp, UCLA’s official student charity, canceled its first week of camp and may have more camp closures this summer because of $36,550 worth of damage to the site’s water tank. UniCamp recruits hundreds of UCLA student volunteers each year to run a summer camp in the San Bernardino Mountains. Camp leaders discovered a leak in […]

Centennial Campaign seeks to raise $4.2 billion for UCLA

Dots of light danced across the facade of Royce Hall on Thursday night, slowly combining to form images of UCLA’s iconic campus locations and figures. “It all began with an idea,” a voice boomed to a crowd of donors, administrators and students gathered in Royce Quad. Images of accomplished members of the UCLA community flashed […]

UCLA receives $4 million for stem cell, digestive disease research

UCLA received two new grants totaling $4 million to study stem cell science and digestive diseases, according to a UCLA statement Thursday. The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation awarded one $2 million grant to Charalabos Pothoulakis, the director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease to study the molecular mechanisms of digestive diseases. Another $2 […]