The University of California terminated a $25 million contract with Wells Fargo in November and will terminate another $450 million of contracts over the next two months. Read more...
Photo: The University of California announced it would pull out about $450 million in contracts and investments in Wells Fargo. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Hundreds of Chinese UCLA students make their tuition payments through a website each quarter instead of directly to the school. Easy Transfer, the first tuition payment service in China, converts tuition payments from Chinese yuan to United States dollars and transfers them directly to the school’s accounting department, said Yuxing Liu, the company’s vice president of business development and a UCLA alumnus. Read more...
Photo: Easy Transfer, the first tuition payment service in China, converts tuition payments from Chinese yuan to U.S. dollars and transfers them directly to the school’s accounting department. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
UCLA environmental researchers are anxious about the future of federal funding for their research after President Donald Trump temporarily froze grants from a federal agency. The Trump administration lifted the executive order that temporarily suspended all funds from the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, but environmental scientists still have concerns about the future of their research. Read more...
Members of Bruins Against Sexual Harassment organized an open-mic and singing action in front of Young Research Library on Wednesday morning to protest Gabriel Piterberg, a history professor accused of sexually harassing two graduate students. Read more...
Photo: Members of Bruins Against Sexual Harassment participated in an open-mic session protesting against history professor Gabriel Piterberg. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation released a plan last week for reducing traffic fatalities over the next eight years. The plan aims to reduce traffic fatalities by 20 percent this year by focusing on streets where the majority of traffic accidents happen, including Westwood Boulevard from Le Conte Avenue to Pico Boulevard and other streets in Westwood Village. Read more...
Violent protests and property destruction forced the cancellation of a controversial conservative speaker event at the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday night. UC police cancelled the event at about 6 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Violent protests erupted at the University of California, Berkeley two hours before Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopolous was scheduled to speak, forcing the cancellation of the event. (Courtesy of Daniel Kim/The Daily Californian)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings usually take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Read more...
