UCLA Recreation has delayed its decision to discontinue its towel service at John Wooden Center this fall. Towel services will be available at the John Wooden Center and Student Activities Center Monday through Friday until Dec. 23, according to UCLA Recreation. The service allows UCLA students to check out a towel with their BruinCard every […]
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Graphic: UCLA researchers find BPS harmful to women’s eggs
Professor names new species of fish in honor of late UCLA student
Kristina Louie, a student researcher who died in 2004, gave a small fish species its scientific name – the Eucyclogobius kristinae. Ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Jacobs decided to honor Louie by naming the fish after her because of her dedication to studying it as a graduate student. Louie died suddenly due to inflammation of […]
Graphic: UCLA study finds 1.4 million US adults identify as transgender
Professor pays about $10,000 in attorney’s fees after animal testing lawsuit
A UCLA professor paid about $10,000 in attorney’s fees in a lawsuit upholding the right of activists to protest her animal testing research on public property. Edythe London, a professor of psychiatry, biobehavioral sciences and molecular and medical pharmacology, returned $3,500 from an initial court ruling to Carol Glasser. Glasser is a co-founder of Progress for […]
Jury awards siblings $1.75M in malpractice lawsuit with UCLA doctors
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $1.75 million on July 15 to two siblings who alleged UCLA doctors committed medical malpractice that resulted in the death of their mother. Ryan and Jessica Larkin sued the Regents of the University of California in December 2014 for the death of their 44-year-old mother, Deborah Larkin. The […]
UCLA receives $20M donation from Margo Leavin for graduate art studios
The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture received a $20 million donation to remodel its Graduate Art Studios in Culver City. The donation, announced in May, will be part of a $31 million project to remake and expand the studios by 2019. UCLA officials will present a proposal to approve the project in the […]