Tag Archives: Campus murder-suicide

Faculty recount events at engineering building the day of UCLA shooting

Angie Castillo and William Klug had their routine chat Wednesday morning, as if it were just another day. Moments later, she returned to her office and heard two gun shots. Castillo, management services officer of the aerospace and mechanical engineering department, was the first to dial 911 and report the gunshots. Distinguished professor Nasr Ghoniem […]

Submission: Attacks on statistics lecturer Vivian Lew are based on misinformation

When UCLA statistics lecturer Vivian Lew received the alert of police activity in Engineering IV, she immediately thought of her students’ safety. There was an exam scheduled for her Statistics 20 students in a nearby building, so she hastily sent an email instructing them to ignore the scheduled location and avoid the area, reassuring them […]

UC students, officials show support for UCLA after campus tragedy

University of California students, administration and leaders showed their support for UCLA after the murder-suicide Wednesday. UC Riverside and UC Irvine students held vigils Friday night to mourn the death of mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, William Klug. UC Riverside’s student government coordinated with the school’s administration to reserve a space for the vigil, help […]

UCLA alum’s cards of kindness aim to lift spirits after tragedy

The morning after Wednesday’s campus shooting, UCLA alumnus Justin Renge drove to campus with a bag of 50 envelopes. Each envelop contained anonymous notes and money, which he distributed to random locations across the campus. Renge, who graduated from UCLA in spring 2015, said he was off campus at a local gym when he saw […]

Professor William Klug remembered for service to students, innovative work

William “Bill” Klug introduced himself in the first lecture of his programming class with a family photo of himself, his wife and two young children. Klug wanted students to understand what he was like both in and out of work, said Amirhossein Kaboodrangidaem, a graduate student in bioengineering and Klug’s former student. Klug, who was […]

Vigils help UCLA community commemorate lives lost to gun violence

The plain night sky above Bruin Plaza was lit by hundreds of candlelights Thursday. Students held the candles in silence, mourning professor William Klug, who was killed in a murder-suicide Wednesday. The event was also held a day after National Gun Violence Awareness Day for victims of gun violence. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering […]