The University of California announced Tuesday that it will use 100 percent clean electricity by 2025. All 10 UC campuses and five medical centers have committed to using solely zero-carbon and renewably generated electricity within a decade, according to a CALPIRG Students press release. Read more...
Photo: All 10 UC campuses and five medical centers have committed to using solely zero-carbon and renewably generated electricity within a decade. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will offer a new major called global jazz studies to undergraduate students in fall. Global jazz studies will be one of four majors in the school of music’s undergraduate program. Read more...
Photo: Students in the global jazz studies major will take both music and social science classes. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Brian Lewinstein‘s closest friends said he had a blinding smile with huge dimples and would often go out of his way to check in with his friends if they were going through a rough time. Read more...
Photo: Brian Lewinstein, a UCLA alumnus who graduated in 2016, fell off a waterfall in Umpqua National Forest in southern Oregon on Aug. 12 and is presumed to be dead. (Courtesy of Kai Convery)
This post was updated Aug. 23 at 8:30 a.m. The UCLA Faculty Center overturned a $300,000 deficit this fiscal year, marking the facility’s first profitable year in a decade, according to the Faculty Center administration. Read more...
Photo: After losing a total of $1.7 million since 2010, the UCLA Faculty Center turned its business around and made $600,000 this past fiscal year. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Aug. 31 at 10:25 p.m. A UCLA student filed a sexual assault lawsuit against two UCLA fraternities, the UCLA Interfraternity Council and a former student on Aug. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA student filed a lawsuit against two fraternities after being sexually assaulted by a Zeta Beta Tau member in 2016. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A new bus company will allow students to travel long distances with a stop near campus. FLiXBUS brought its services to UCLA in June, with a pickup location on Strathmore Plaza and Gayley Avenue. Read more...
Photo: FLiXBUS, a Germany-based bus company, will allow students to travel long distances with a stop near campus. (Courtesy of FLiXBUS)
An international ranking named UCLA the second-best public university in the United States on Tuesday. The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which was published by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, also ranked UCLA 11th in the world out of 1000 universities, an increase from the 12th spot which UCLA had held since 2011. Read more...
Photo: UCLA was ranked the second-best public university in the United States by the Academic Ranking of World Universities on Tuesday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
