This post was updated on Nov. 14 at 4:30 p.m. Undergraduate student government president Devin Murphy resigned from office Friday, saying his job and the campus climate had taken a toll on his mental, emotional and physical health. Read more...
Photo: Devin Murphy took office as the USAC president in spring. (Courtesy of Associated Students UCLA)
The UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine recently received a $50 million grant from the estate of a wealthy Pacific Palisades couple, the university announced Thursday. Read more...
People with clipboards and bright orange stickers have been calling out to students on Bruin Walk, asking: “Have you pledged CALPIRG yet?” CALPIRG Students, a branch of the California Public Interest Research Group, has chapters on eight University of California campuses, including UCLA. Read more...
More than 100 students met at Hillel at UCLA Thursday to discuss a strategy to persuade the undergraduate student government to shift its attention away from political and international issues. Read more...
Forty-five years ago, he sent the first ever instant message from the halls of Boelter to a computer in a Stanford lab. The Stanford computer crashed almost instantly, flashing just the letters "LO" before going blank. Read more...
Photo: Leonard Kleinrock, one of the Internet’s early pioneers, spoke to about 30 students in a crowded Boelter Hall classroom Wednesday. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
The graduate student government elected UCLA law student Milan Chatterjee to fill a vacant cabinet seat Wednesday. Chatterjee, formerly the director of Graduate Students Association’s discretionary funding, ran against Heidi Alexander and Matthew FitzGerald for the GSA vice president of internal affairs position. Read more...
A Los Angeles-based philanthropist recently donated $10 million to launch a new center at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman of Participant Media and former president of eBay, gave $10 million to create the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment. Read more...
