He started at UCLA 28 years ago as a teenager from a poor part of Los Angeles, a former gang member who had seen his friends fall to gunshots and knives while still in high school. Read more...
Photo: Jose Buktaw finished his final classes at UCLA to secure a better job to support his family of eight. He waited until midnight, when the house was quiet enough, to finish his homework.
Walking through the doors, wandering down the halls and sitting in the lounges of Dykstra Hall this fall will be at once a familiar and foreign experience for Resident Assistant Taimi Jacobson. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s new residential halls Sproul Cove and Sproul Landing are part of a $230 million university project aimed at ensuring students’ on-campus housing.
The University of California launched a systemwide crowdfunding campaign sponsored by University leaders and some prominent celebrities. Read more...
Photo: More than a hundred people have already made pledges on the Promise for Education website, including celebrities like Jamie Foxx, who has promised to “rap a song like Bill Clinton, President Obama and Monique from the movie ‘Precious.'”
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California Board of Regents has approved a total of $620,000 in renovations and maintenance to update the historic UC presidential residence in Contra Costa County. Read more...
The University of California Board of Regents approved $3.15 million in preliminary funding today for an engineering building at UCLA. The building, called the Engineering VI – Phase 2 building, would be built adjacent to the Engineering VI – Phase 1 building already under construction in Westwood Plaza. Read more...
The Santa Monica building that houses the UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Oncology Center was recently sold to Montecito Medical Investment Co., an investment firm based out of Carpinteria, Calif. Read more...
