UC extends application deadline for transfer students to Jan. 4

Transfer students applying to University of California campuses for fall 2016 will have an extra month to submit their applications, the University announced Wednesday. The new deadline for transfer applications is Jan. 4, 2016, the University said. The original deadline was Monday, Nov. 30. The University extended the deadline in an effort to increase California […]

Fidel Castro’s daughter discusses experiences in communist Cuba

Fidel Castro’s daughter told tales about the Cuban revolution and shared her parents’ love story with more than 100 UCLA community members Wednesday evening. Alina Fernández Revuelta, 59, was the keynote speaker for a leadership conference in Carnesale Commons on Wednesday night. She was born in Cuba in 1956 to a Havana socialite and a […]

Alum continues activism 46 years after Black Panther shooting

J. Daniel Johnson stands at the entrance to Room 1201 in Campbell Hall and greets almost every passerby with a warm smile, handshake and a “How you doing, brother?” or, for the ladies, “How are you, sweetheart?” But inside, Johnson, 68, feels a little nervous, as he always does whenever he is inside Room 1201. […]

Alums donate century-old letters capturing Indian immigrant’s experiences

Roshan Sharma was eating lunch outside Murphy Hall near the bus depot on Hilgard Avenue in 1949 when he saw a woman named Raj wearing a Punjabi outfit. He dropped his lunch, chased her down and helped her fill out her UCLA application. He then found a place for her to live in the women’s […]

Student battled cancer, other obstacles in journey for higher education

Sahar Ghorany started community college at a fifth-grade English reading level. At the time, she was a part-time student, a full-time mom and a soon-to-be cancer patient. Then, a cancer survivor. After five years at Irvine Valley College, Ghorany, a third-year psychology student, is finishing up her first year at UCLA on a full scholarship […]

UCPD searches for man who robbed woman on Westwood Boulevard

Police are searching for a man who robbed a woman early Tuesday morning on Westwood Boulevard and threatened that he had a handgun, officials said. At about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday, the man ordered the woman to take money out of the University Credit Union ATM and give it to him, said Lt. Mark Littlestone of […]

FDA advises continued use of medical device linked to superbug outbreak

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised hospitals Wednesday to continue using Olympus Corp. of Americas duodenoscopes, even though they were linked to the recent superbug outbreak at UCLA and are not currently FDA-approved for sale. Without the device, hospitals would not be able to meet the clinical demand for 500,000 annual U.S. endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography […]