Wednesday, February 18


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. Read more...

Photo: Students gather in Meyerhoff Park Wednesday night to discuss the Bosnian Genocide and to commemorate those who died. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)



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. Read more...

Photo: UC President Janet Napolitano recently established guidelines for university (Daily Bruin file photo)


Research program provides resources for undocumented students

Students in a program that provides otherwise unavailable funding to undocumented students will present their research findings Thursday afternoon in Powell Library. Read more...

Photo: Ruth Batres, an undocumented fourth-year Latin American studies student, joined the UndocuBruins research program to spread awareness about violence against women in her hometown. (Alejandra Reyes/Daily Bruin)


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. Read more...

Photo: UCLA officials announced a $100 million donation to the UCLA Anderson School of Management Wednesday. (Daily Bruin file photo)


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 equation. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus and economics professor Randall Rojas delivered his “Last Lecture” Tuesday, a lecture series where students nominate a professor to give a lecture about what he or she would say if it was the last lecture he or she would ever give. (Mary Kate Turner/Daily Bruin)



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