UCLA researchers have found that the way to cure HIV-positive patients may be to activate the virus. Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and Stanford University developed a synthetic molecule that reactivated dormant HIV in cells. Read more...
Photo: (Noelle Cho/Daily Bruin)
The University of California announced today it will establish a new free speech center in the UC center in Washington, D.C. The National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, funded by the UC presidential endowment and private philanthropic efforts, will focus on research and advocacy of First Amendment issues. Read more...
Photo: University of California President Janet Napolitano will chair the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Several students living on the Hill are complaining that UCLA Housing charged them for tampering with red emergency sanitation bags they claim they never touched. Marcella Pensamiento, a second-year political science and economics student, voiced her concerns at the All Hill Town Hall meeting Wednesday night, during which students living on the Hill gave feedback and expressed concerns to UCLA Housing representatives. Read more...
Photo: Students living on the Hill expressed complaints about being charged by UCLA Housing for opening red emergency bags that they claim to never have opened. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Students now have several boba options in the Westwood Village area and on campus. Lollicup Fresh, a boba restaurant that currently has a location in Ackerman Union on campus, opened its Westwood Village location on Oct. Read more...
Photo: Lollicup Fresh, a boba restaurant with another location in Ackerman Union, opened a new location in the south end of Westwood Village. Lollicup Fresh joins a number of other boba restaurants in Westwood. (Jacob Preal/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A Chicana/o studies and urban planning studies professor will help advise the chancellor and lead UCLA’s response to federal immigration policy changes. Chancellor Gene Block announced in a campuswide email Wednesday that Abel Valenzuela Jr. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block appointed Dr. Valenzuela, a professor of Chicana/o studies and urban planning, as the special advisor to the chancellor on immigration policy. (Courtesy of the Optimist Campaign)
About 30 students protested in support of valet workers at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday and marched to an administrator’s office to deliver a letter asking to meet with him. Read more...
Photo: Protestors from the Student Labor Advocacy Project of UCLA and UCLA Sanctuary Campus Committee wore face masks with “hire valets” written on them because they believe some valet workers have developed respiratory issues from breathing in fumes while working in the hospital’s basement. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 7 at 6:17 p.m. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a bill into law that will make the first year of community college free for first time students. Read more...
