Twelve years after traveling by plane, van and car from his home in Chile to the United States, Mario Pizarro stood nervously at the front of the concrete stage in Bruin Plaza Wednesday and looked out into a crowd of about 50 people. Read more...
Photo: Students rally in Bruin Plaza on Wednesday, as part of the fourth annual Immigrant Awareness Week. The event was held by the student organization IDEAS and the USAC external vice president’s office.
Armen Alchian, a professor emeritus in economics known for his research of business relationships and firms, died Feb. 19 of natural causes. He was 98. Read more...
The UCLA School of Law received a gift of $1.025 million from an alumna to create the Justice Joan Dempsey Klein Scholarships in Law, according to a UCLA statement released Wednesday. Read more...
If passed by the graduate student body, the first referendum would increase funding for the financially struggling Graduate Writing Center by raising graduate student quarterly fees $1.50 per quarter – from $4 to $5.50. Additionally, the referendum will tie future quarterly fees to inflation. Read more...
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The graduate student government voted to place a fee increase referendum on the spring ballot, at its meeting today. Read more...
As a resident on the Hill about 2 1/2 years ago, Te Luan remembers having a hard time finding open tables in the often-crowded dining halls. These experiences later inspired him to develop the idea for an app to help students save time while eating in the dining halls. Read more...
Photo: Steven Beck, a first-year computer science and engineering student; Lee Rubinoff, a fourth-year business economics student; and Te Luan, a UCLA alumnus, recently created a new iPhone application that allows users to check how crowded an eatery is on the Hill before they go.
UCLA has once again moved up the ranks in terms of world university reputation, according to the analyses of a British higher education magazine released Monday. Read more...
