This post was updated April 4 at 7:42 p.m. Anita Ortega, a former UCLA women’s basketball player, will deliver the UCLA College commencement address in June, UCLA officials announced Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Anita Ortega helped lead UCLA women’s basketball to its first national championship in 1978. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002. (ASUCLA)
This post was updated on April 5 at 4:40 p.m. Transfer students can now apply to six new scholarships. Several transfer groups and students in the undergraduate student government collaborated to create two $1,000 and four $500 scholarships that will be awarded week six. Read more...
Photo: Applications for new scholarships for transfer students are available at the Bruin Resource Center, located in the Student Activities Center. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Students can now pay for parking in any campus lot through a smartphone app called Parkmobile. UCLA Parking Services made the Parkmobile app available for all campus parking facilities in March. Read more...
Photo: The Parkmobile app will send a reminder to users 15 minutes before parking expires. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Mark Sawyer spoke Spanish with a Cuban accent, despite growing up in the United States. While leading study abroad programs in San Juan, Puerto Rico, locals would call him “El Cubano.” Sawyer, a political science and African American studies professor known for his work on race relations in Cuba, died March 26 in Los Angeles. Read more...
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Herb Alpert, a musician and philanthropist, will be awarded the university’s highest honor in June, UCLA officials announced Wednesday. Chancellor Gene Block will present Alpert, who has donated to and supported UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for years, with the UCLA Medal on June 16 at the school of music’s inaugural commencement ceremony. Read more...
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A UCLA student died Tuesday after falling from a cliff at Panther State Beach near Santa Cruz. Neel Foon, 18, was a first-year undeclared student, a UCLA spokesperson said. Read more...
The Samueli Foundation donated $20 million to UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science on Thursday. The gift will support up to 50 first-year undergraduates in annual scholarships and research or industry internships. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science was named after the philanthropist when the Samueli Foundation donated $30 million to the school in 1999. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
