The undergraduate student government promised to overhaul its election code, but has yet to take the first step to do so. Claire Fieldman, the Undergraduate Students Association Council president, announced Aug. Read more...
Photo: Claire Fieldman, the Undergraduate Students Association Council president, to begin the revision process, but there is no election board chair candidate up for a vote as of this article’s publication. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
The University of California Board of Regents settled a sexual harassment case against a prominent faculty member at UC San Francisco for $150,000. Eunice Neeley, a former postdoctoral researcher, filed a complaint against her supervisor Stanton Glantz in December claiming he made lurid remarks toward her, stared at her body and forced her to hug him on several occasions, according to court documents. Read more...
Photo: The University of California Regents settled a sexual harassment case against Eunice Neeley, a prominent postdoctoral researcher at UC San Francisco for $150,000. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Ronald Alcazar spent years honing his family’s tortilla recipe with his mother for he and his brother’s new tortilla company. Today, the two UCLA alumni have their own tortilla factory and hope to sell their tortillas to UCLA Dining Services. Read more...
Photo: Anthony and Ronald Alcazar started their tortilla company, Mr. Tortilla, while Ronald Alcazar was attending UCLA in 2012. They have since opened their own factory and created different types of tortillas, such as one that is chipotle flavored.
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Where did dogs come from? Read more...
Photo: Humans and dogs have been shown to improve one another’s mental health. According to a report in the journal Science, when dogs and humans lock eyes, their brains release oxytocin, the “love hormone” most commonly associated with maternal bonding. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Oct. 18 at 12:04 p.m. 800 Degrees Woodfired Kitchen closed its Westwood location Monday. 800 Degrees, a Neapolitan pizza and rotisserie chicken restaurant chain, closed after six years in Westwood. Read more...
Photo: 800 Degrees Woodfired Kitchen first launched as 800 Degrees Neopolitan Pizzeria in 2012. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Land developers in Westwood may have an easier time applying for a land use permit if a new amendment is adopted by the Los Angeles City Council. Read more...
Photo: An amendment to the zoning section of the Los Angeles Municipal Code may make it easier for land developers to apply for a land use permit in places like Westwood. (Axel Lopez/Assistant Photo editor)
A UCLA professor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine on Monday. Linda Liau, the chair of neurosurgery in the David Geffen School of Medicine, was elected to the academy for her achievements in studying the immunology of brain tumors and designing clinical trials of vaccines for glioblastomas, according to the National Academy of Medicine website. Read more...
Photo: Linda Liau is the second woman in America and the first Asian-American woman to lead an academic department of neurosurgery, and is part of the six percent of licensed neurosurgeons in the United States who are female. (Photo illustration courtesy of UCLA Health)
