Author Archives: Charlotte Hsu

With a 24-foot-high white-domed ceiling and space for an audience of about 50, the UCLA planetarium sits quietly on the eighth-floor rooftop of the Mathematical Sciences building. The planetarium’s interior ““ a circular room with no windows ““ is perhaps one of the best places in the city to view the Los Angeles night sky. […]

A fan of jazz and one of the founders of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, Donald Lindsley was a compassionate teacher. He kept in touch with students by writing full-page letters they would receive years after earning their degrees. Colleagues, friends and family will remember Lindsley this afternoon at the UCLA Faculty Center, where they will […]

Hans Roggers lived in Germany on the eve of World War II. After witnessing the destruction of Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues by Nazi sympathizers in Germany during Kristallnacht in 1938, Roggers and his Jewish family fled the country, settling down in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Roggers joined UCLA’s history department in 1961, and […]

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Janina Montero said budget cuts to the university this year will force the school to cut some student services while raising the prices of others. Montero said when considering how to restructure campus services to offset budget reductions, one of the university’s main foci is maintaining the scope and quality […]

The results of a UCLA study released Tuesday show that the number of admissions to drug treatment centers and programs increased significantly in four California counties during the first year following the implementation of Proposition 36. Researchers found no increase in the number of admissions to treatment centers and programs in San Francisco County. Proposition […]

Bruce Willison, dean of the Anderson School at UCLA, will step down from his position next summer after serving a five-year stint at the school. Anderson School spokesman Philip Little said Willison decided not to pursue a renewal of his deanship at Anderson partly due to his age. Willison, who will be turning 55 today, […]