A fundraising effort led by a graduate of the UCLA School of Dentistry has established a new endowed chair to support the recruitment and retention of faculty in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Howard Park led 20 alumni and supporters to fund the 11th endowed chair in the UCLA School of Dentistry – the Alumni and Friends Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Endowed Chair. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
UCLA’s undergraduate student government voted last week to reduce the amount student political groups can spend on election campaigns in order to make campaigning more fair. Read more...
Photo: The undergraduate student government amended the Election Code bylaw to make campaigning more fair for independent candidates. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Edwin Cifuentes, a contracted valet worker at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said many valet workers who are being transferred away from UCLA are worried their new jobs will not offer them the same wages or benefits UCLA provided. Read more...
Photo: Valet contract workers for ABM have protested UCLA’s in-sourcing alongside AFSCME at places including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in July and at the inaugural UC public law conference in September. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
When Neil Garg asked his audience if they heard organic chemistry was the best class they would take, the audience laughed in response. “It’s a class typically associated with memorization,” Garg said. Read more...
Photo: Chemistry professor Neil Garg gave a lecture on how he helped his students enjoy learning organic chemistry and made it a popular course at UCLA. (Mackenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Photo: Members of Refuse Fascism Los Angeles burned a “Make America Great Again” hat, President Donald Trump’s campaign hat, in Bruin Plaza on Thursday at 11 a.m. and called for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to be driven out of office. Members also called for UCLA students to join a national protest against Trump’s administration Nov. 4. “Since when is it normal for two white supremacists to be in the White House?” said UCLA alumna Luna Gonzalez. “That’s what this hat represents.” (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Incoming first-year undergraduate students are increasingly concerned with the cost of their education, a national survey found. The Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey found 55.9 percent of incoming first-year students are at least somewhat concerned with the cost of their education and 13.3 percent have major concerns about financing their education. Read more...
The University of California Office of the President is delaying implementation of a new payroll system at UCLA and UCLA medical services. UC Payroll, Academic Personnel, Timekeeping and Human Resources project, a uniform center for managing payroll across the UC’s campuses, will now only launch at Associated Students UCLA, UC Merced and UC Riverside, said Scott Waugh, executive vice chancellor and provost, in an email to UCLA faculty and staff Thursday. Read more...
Photo: The University of California Office of the President agreed to delay implementation of the UC’s new payroll system at two locations after discovering defects while testing the system. Only ASUCLA, UC Merced and UC Riverside will implement the system in December. (Daily Bruin file photo)
