The UCLA Anderson School of Management awarded Robert Iger, the chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, the sixth annual John Wooden Global Leadership Award in a dinner ceremony Thursday at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.Anderson administration officials give the award to business leaders who honor Wooden’s memory through their work as leaders in their […]
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UCLA professor to receive John Gardner Legacy of Leadership Award
A professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Fernando Torres-Gil, will be awarded the John Gardner Legacy of Leadership Award in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
UCLA panel discusses future of music in modern age
Music experts discussed the future of the music industry Tuesday, in a public panel that touched on topics like the technology of digital companies like Pandora and Spotify and their still-changing role in the music community. Over 100 people attended the panel, called “The Future of Digital Music Delivery,” in the Sproul Palisades Ballroom on […]
Westwood BID board approves executive salary increases
The board of the Westwood Business Improvement District, a nonprofit organization that works to improve the area on behalf of local business owners, voted last Thursday to raise the salaries of two its executive staffers, a move that angered some Westwood residents.
From dangerous to bizarre, UCPD stores evidence
Lost purses, a dozen poisoned dead fish and every so often, a deadly weapon are stored in Laura Rippstein’s office. Rippstein works in the university police’s property department, a strictly secured room on the bottom floor of the police department’s building on Westwood Plaza. She and the other workers in the property department monitor every […]
Phi Kappa Psi house open for leasing, fraternity still suspended
The Phi Kappa Psi house reopened this month in the midst of the fraternity’s four-year suspension. The house, which has been almost completely reconstructed, will be the first of its kind at UCLA to be built following environmentally friendly policies. The new building, which opened on Sept. 7, is currently available as housing to any […]