The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was ranked as the seventh best hospital in the nation in an annual Best Hospitals ranking released earlier this month by the U.S. News & World Report. UCLA was ranked No. 1 in Los Angeles and No. 2 in California. The new ranking dropped Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center […]
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UCLA adds Nordic studies, Asian languages and linguistics majors
Students can choose from two new undergraduate degree programs starting this fall. UCLA’s two newest majors are Nordic studies and Asian languages and linguistics. The Scandinavian section and the department of Asian languages and cultures created the new majors to broaden their respective departments’ curricula and attract more students to the departments. Timothy Tangherlini, a […]
Anderson School of Management students develop networking app
Andrew Bremner didn’t think networking was important for career progression until he witnessed it firsthand at UCLA. That’s why Bremner and Brandon Kessler, graduate students in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, founded Out of Office, a mobile platform that connects professionals through intimately sized networking events and activities. The app is scheduled to be […]
Student creates guidebooks exploring colleges from inside perspective
Aaron Yih was relaxing in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden when a campus tour passing by gave him the idea for a new business. Yih, a rising fourth-year Design | Media Arts student, launched College Visit Co. this month, which sells e-book college visit guides written with current students’ perspectives and opinions to help […]
Heather Roberge appointed as new chair of architecture department
The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design appointed a new chair this month. On July 1 , Heather Roberge succeeded Neil Denari, who was appointed as interim chair last year to replace Hitoshi Abe, the department’s chair from 2007 to 2016. Roberge was most recently an associate professor and interim vice chair of the […]
Graduate student remembered for charisma, passion for theater
Faculty and students remember Kendra Perez as a lively and talented individual who brought people together with her enthusiasm and passion for acting. Perez, a graduate student in acting, was 26 years old when she died June 18 after falling into a creek in Sequoia National Park. Marike Splint, an assistant professor in the department […]
Alumna works to dispel stigma against social workers by becoming one
In the low-income and predominantly Hispanic community of Maywood, California, where Fatima Perez comes from, many view social workers as people who pluck children from their families, she said. Perez hopes to change this negative perception by becoming a social worker herself. Perez, who graduated this year with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Chicana/o […]