Friday, June 27

Bruins elect 1st international student as USAC president in 2024 elections

This post was updated May 17 at 9:15 p.m. For the first time in the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s history, Bruins have elected an international student as president. Read more...

Photo: Kerckhoff Hall, where the Undergraduate Students Association Council offices are housed, is pictured. The USA Elections Board announced the results of the 2024 student government elections at 8 p.m. Friday. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Votes to censure, express no confidence in Gene Block fail in UCLA Academic Senate

This post was updated May 19 at 11:05 p.m. The UCLA Academic Senate failed to pass both a vote to censure and a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Gene Block in its Thursday meeting.  The resolution of no confidence in Block received 43% of votes in favor, and the resolution to censure Block received 50% of votes in favor, according to an email sent to senate faculty from Linda Sarna, the senate’s secretary. Read more...

Photo: Chancellor Gene Block is pictured. The UCLA Academic Senate failed to reach the required vote amount of 50% plus one in favor to pass the resolutions to censure and express no confidence in Block. (Jeremy Chen/Photo editor)


UC-AFT files unfair labor practice charge against UC

This post was updated May 19 at 11:16 p.m. The University Council-American Federation of Teachers announced Thursday that it filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University. Read more...

Photo: Pictured is a collage of University Council-American Federation of Teachers’ 2021 rally during ongoing negotiations with the UC and the Palestine solidarity encampment at UCLA in Dickson Plaza prior to its disbanding by law enforcement. (Left to right: Daily Bruin file photo, Aidan Sun/Daily Bruin)


Ying-Ying Meng remembered as kind researcher who mentored public health scholars

Ying-Ying Meng, the former director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, died April 11. She was 68. Meng, who began working at the center in 2000, also served as a senior research scientist and the co-director of the CHPR’s Chronic Disease Program. Read more...

Photo: Ying-Ying Meng, the former director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, died April 11. She was 68. (Courtesy of Mike Fricano/UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)


UC Regents approve acute care bed expansion at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

This post was updated May 19 at 11:19 p.m. UCLA Health received approval to increase the number of acute care inpatient beds in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday. Read more...

Photo: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is pictured. UCLA Health is set to increase the number of acute care inpatient beds on the fourth floor of the medical center. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC Board of Regents debates controversial Thirty Meter Telescope at May meeting

This post was updated at 1:43 p.m. MERCED – The UC Board of Regents Academic and Student Affairs Committee argued about how development of the Thirty Meter Telescope would affect the Indigenous people of Hawaii during a meeting about UC-affiliated astronomy Wednesday. Read more...

Photo: Regent Greg Sarris (third from left) discusses the Thirty Meter Telescope at the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday. Sarris, a member of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, likened the construction of the telescope in Hawaii to Spanish colonization of California. (Sam Mulick/Daily Bruin)