Thursday, February 19

Volunteers hearten cardiac transplant patients through art, music

Doctors, nurses and visitors bustle past one another under directory signs in the white, marbled lobby of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. But upstairs on the seventh floor, noises settle into a rhythm of beeping heart monitors and murmuring nurses. Read more...

Photo: UCLA cardiologists partnered with Marymount High School students in April 2014 to establish Heal My HeART, an art and music therapy program that helps relieve patients suffering from heart failure and transplant recovery. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)



ASAP Clinic provides care for students with urgent medical needs

An Ashe Center urgent care clinic that opened in spring has received positive feedback from students. Since its opening in late March, the ASAP Clinic has had more than 4,000 visits from students, said June Hu, data and applications manager for the Ashe Center. Read more...

Photo: The ASAP Clinic is a walk-in urgent care health clinic on the third floor of the Ashe Center. It opened due to complaints of overcrowding from Ashe Center patients.(Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)



Bruin Bash 2016 will have increased security for crowds, wristbands

UCLA will enforce new security procedures at this year’s Bruin Bash to increase student safety. The undergraduate student government’s Campus Events Commission and Cultural Affairs Commission, which organized the event, hired a new security company and introduced more thorough wristband precautions, said Jordan Dang, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Campus Events commissioner. Read more...

Photo: The Cultural Affairs Commission and Campus Events Commission have hired a new security company to staff this year’s Bruin Bash. Last year, Contemporary Services Corporation staffed the event.


Officials appoint new dean for Luskin School

UCLA officials appointed a new dean for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs on Thursday. Gary Segura, professor of political science at Stanford University, will start his term Jan. Read more...

Photo: Gary Segura will start his term as the new dean for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs from Jan 1, 2017. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)


UCLA ties for No. 24 spot on U.S. News & World Report ranking

UCLA was ranked the 24th-best national university in the 2017 edition of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings of national universities, released Monday evening, slipping slightly from last year. Read more...

Photo: UCLA tied with Carnegie Mellon and University of Virginia for the 24th best national universities in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report rankings. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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