Tuesday, July 1

Police close part of Westwood Plaza to investigate suspicious package

Police are investigating a suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. Read more...

Photo: Police responded to a suspicious package reported at the Jules Stein Eye Institute Monday afternoon. (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)


Engineering school creates endowed chair named for former dean

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science created the Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering on Friday after receiving donations totaling $1 million. The position, named after the school’s former dean, was created with donations from about 100 alumni, faculty members and other supporters, who worked with Dhir during the 14 years he served as dean. Read more...

Photo: The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science created the Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering named after the former dean on Friday after receiving donations totaling $1 million. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA team of scientists explores Mojave Desert for meteorites

The Mojave Desert’s dusty red plains constitute a vast landscape of sand, creosote bush and cinder-cone mountains – sparse, uninhabited and dry. But on certain days, a team of UCLA geologists, cosmochemists and planetary scientists scours acres of the desert landscape for meteorites, chunks of rock that have fallen from space. Read more...

Photo: Illustration (Taylor Leong/Daily Bruin) Photo (Kevin McKeegan/Daily Bruin)


Bruins weigh in on study about children raised by same-sex parents

Sami Emmer-Fink loved her childhood because every day was a girls’ day. “I had a different upbringing, with no male figure, but I can’t say that I missed out,” said Emmer-Fink, a first-year theater student. Read more...

Photo: Sami Emmer-Fink, a first-year theater student who was raised by same-sex parents, said growing up with two moms felt completely normal. (Courtesy of Aimee Hou)


UCLA released animal treatment records in settlement for 2013 lawsuit

UCLA agreed to release animal treatment records in response to a lawsuit an animal welfare organization filed in 2013 that alleged UCLA withheld public documents. The Animal Legal Defense Fund represented Stop Animal Exploitation Now an animal welfare organization, in the lawsuit. Read more...

Photo: The Animal Justice Project protested against animal experimentation in research studies Friday. The protest was a few days before Stop Animal Exploitation Now plans to release documents that allegedly show evidence of animal neglect. (Owen Emerson/Photo assistant editor)


Protesters march against animal testing in campus research labs

This post was updated on April 22 at 4:45 p.m. Animal rights activists marched to Chancellor Gene Block’s office Friday with signs depicting bleeding monkeys and other animals to protest animal testing in campus research labs. Read more...

Photo: Julia Orr, an organizer for the Animal Justice Project, has protested UCLA’s animal testing practices for the last 10 years. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)




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