Author Archives: Jennie Herriot

A memorial service full of laughter and tears was held on Tuesday for third-year law student Peter Santos, who passed away in March. About 75 students and faculty members gathered in the UCLA School of Law courtyard to remember a friend and student whom Professor Laura Gomez referred to as “the funniest guy in the […]

A new study by UCLA faculty shows that national college graduation rates are declining and undergraduate students are taking longer to complete their degrees. Researchers from the Higher Education Research Institute compiled data from 262 colleges and universities across the country, finding that 36.4 percent of students who enrolled in fall 1994 graduated in four […]

Researchers at UCLA have received funds to study the impact of recent legislation aimed at reducing the number of drug offenders sent to prison in California. The UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute’s Integrated Substance Abuse Program received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the consequences of Proposition 36, the Substance […]

Many students come to UCLA hoping for hands-on academic experiences unique to this school. Some students don’t know where to look, but for the ones who do, enroll in Education 193F. As a part of the Diversified Liberal Arts Program ““ a specialization designed for students interested in becoming teachers ““ the class provides field […]

After a quarter and a half of use, the new De Neve Learning and Teaching Auditorium is being met with praise from students and faculty alike who find both its location and modernized classroom tools beneficial. Located on the third floor of the Acacia building in the De Neve residential complex, the De Neve auditorium […]

A study released by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center asserts that Latinas are few in the University of California system because of a lack of access to academic enrichment programs early on in their education. The study, published in late January, found that while Latinas make up half of all California girls in kindergarten, […]

Pauline Yu, dean of the humanities division of the College of Letters & Science, will be stepping down this summer to fill her new position as president of the American Council of Learned Societies, the council announced Tuesday. A member of the ACLS board of directors since 1998, Yu said she will be leaving UCLA […]