Student-organized vigil commemorates Bosnian Genocide

Merima Tricic’s family was forced to leave Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993. The mass funeral she attended a few years ago was a reminder of what her relatives faced during the Bosnian War. Like many Bosnian students at UCLA, Tricic, a third-year world arts and cultures, political science and study of religion student, is a […]

Email links UCLA researcher to $4.7B energy station settlement

A UCLA researcher collaborated with the former California Public Utilities Commission president to craft a settlement for the closure of a San Diego energy station so that the UCLA campus would especially benefit, according to an email that was publicly released this week. In an email sent to former commission president Michael Peevey on Oct. […]

Memorandum aims to improve universities’ response to sexual assault cases

University of California President Janet Napolitano and California Attorney General Kamala Harris established guidelines Wednesday for California universities and their local law enforcement agencies that aim to improve coordination and transparency in response to sexual assault cases. The Office of the Attorney General, the UC Office of the President, district attorney offices and police departments […]

UCLA Anderson School of Management receives $100M donation

The UCLA Anderson School of Management received a $100 million donation from Marion Anderson, wife of the business school’s namesake, UCLA announced Wednesday. Marion Anderson donated the largest single amount the school has ever received, Chancellor Gene Block said in an email statement to the campus community Wednesday. About $40 million of the donation will […]

My Last Lecture Award features assistant adjunct professor Randall Rojas

At age 13, Randall Rojas looked to the skies and felt humbled by the serenity and beauty of space. When he first read Albert Einstein’s writings on the forces of nature, he learned about the “theory of everything” – the idea that all physical laws governing the universe can be explained by a single mathematical […]

USAC passes resolution calling for Gov. Brown to allocate $100M to UC

The undergraduate student council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday asking Gov. Jerry Brown to allocate $100 million to the University of California. Councilmembers think this allocation would make tuition more affordable. Brown will release his annual May budget revision Thursday and recommend to the legislature how much funding the UC will receive. The original text […]