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  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Animal Rights Radicals at UCLA Taken on Tonight by KCET's 'SoCal Connected'

    KCETAn animal rights protester.​The aggro opposition to animal research has targeted UCLA professors at their homes, scaring some into quitting that business. The crusade against animal testing has resulted in three car bombings, a home invasion and death threats. Tonight on KCET SoCal Conne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Animal Testing Wars in Los Angeles Ramp Up: On Five Billboards, the Foundation for Biomedical Research Urges Support for Rat Research

    UCLALatest billboard​When it comes to medical research on animals, one thing is certain: lots of folks don't like what's going on at UCLA, and the school doesn't much appreciate the more extreme animal activists. Over the years, faculty members and researchers have been the target of bombs, lette ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    First Successful Hand Transplant in Western U.S. is Achieved at UCLA -- after the Fingerprints got a Background Check

    UCLA Health System/ Ann Johansson PhotographyFuturamaaaa!​Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed a 14-and-a-half hour hand transplant this weekend.The hand traveled from San Diego to become the first ever hand transplant in the western U.S. The Futurama-esque procedure has decid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    UCLA Study: Cigarettes Make Teens Want to Smoke More Cigarettes

    cigarettesflavours.comStop that, teens. Smoking is bad.​UCLA researchers were on a real roll there for a minute, what with all the cures for baldness and sexual revelations about homeless kids. But if we may be so bold, we're inclined to wax a bit duh on this one: According to the university's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    UCLA Scientists: Oops, We Cured Baldness

    Tyra will finally be beautiful again​Baldness: That cursed genetic trait, forever cock-blocking older men from cheating on their wives (with the exception of Bruce Willis), squelching their confidence to ask for a better cubicle and overall giving them the vague look of a gigantic human condom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Animal Rights Activists Sue UCLA Police: Claim Campus Cops Target, Harrass and Crush Free Speech Over Monkey Love

    ​It's no secret that animal rights activists aren't too fond of the medical experiments being done at UCLA. Faculty members and researchers have been on the scary end of bombs, letters filled with razor blades, vandalism and verbal threats. In response, UCLA admits that it has taken steps to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Burbank Kids Bribed Into Caring About College With Reenactment Of USC-UCLA Rivalry

    halloweenbearcostume.comRawwwr! I stab you in face and eat your team for lunch!​Hey kids! Did you know that UCLA is one of the top public universities in the country, with stellar undergraduate opportunities in the social sciences and a prestigious faculty that includes three professors electe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    USC Appears To Strike First In Rivalry With UCLA: Westwood Campus Fountain Water Turned Red

    Daily BruinAll your fountain are belong to US(C).​It's that time of year when your friends at UCLA and USC go at it in anticipation of the annual football match between the crosstown foes that has become of the country's greatest sports rivalries. It looks like the spoiled children of USC str ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2010

    DANCE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

    Daily BruinAll your fountain are belong to US(C).​It's that time of year when your friends at UCLA and USC go at it in anticipation of the annual football match between the crosstown foes that has become of the country's greatest sports rivalries. It looks like the spoiled children of USC str ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Animal-Rights Activists Send 'AIDS-Tainted' Razor Blades, 'Hell Awaits You' Note To UCLA Professor

    UCLA MagazineWhatcha got for me today, Doc​UCLA neuroscientist David Jentsch, who performs drug tests on vervet monkeys at the university, was the target of a particularly gnarly animal-rights protest this week. He received a package at his home containing alleged AIDS-infested razor blades a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    UCLA The Most Vegan-Friendly College in America

    Yet another reason to attend UCLA. There's the education, the Bruins, and now an imprimatur from peta2, which just crowned the school the Most Vegan-Friendly College in America. UCLA defeated 31 other schools from across the country in the large-school category in what peta2, the youth version of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    More Than 200 L.A. County Employees Took Home $250K Or More Last Year

    ​The city of Bell hasn't been the only local government paying some of its employees handsomely. It turns out that some Los Angeles County workers make nearly Bell-level incomes, often because they take in beaucoup overtime bucks or "other earnings." LA Weekly obtained a county document that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    USC Beats UCLA In ... Smarts?

    ​USC beat crosstown rival UCLA this week, and it wasn't, as usual, on the football field. No, surprisingly, the win is in the academic arena, as USC outranked UCLA in U.S. News & World Report's annual national college rankings. The Trojans ended up one step above the Bruins at 23 to 25 (there ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    UCLA: More Angelenos Without Health Insurance

    ​Nearly 29 percent of residents of L.A. County younger than 65 didn't have health insurance at some point last year, according to a new UCLA study. That's a staggering 2.7 million people and was significantly higher than the statewide average of 24.3 percent. Researchers blame the recession, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Website Lets College Students Bet On Their Grades

    ​Students at USC and UCLA can bet on their own grades this coming fall. According to KTLA, the site Ultrinsic.com lets students bet on whether or not they can achieve a certain grade. The bets start at $25. This is how it works: A student places a bet on the website, puts up some of the mone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    UCLA Launches West Coast's First Hand Transplant Program

    Photo credit: UCLA​The first hand-transplant program on the West Coast was introduced Monday at UCLA. Since 1999, only nine people in the United States have received hand transplants. "Over the past decade, the exciting field of hand transplantation has resulted in excellent outcomes for pati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Arthur Rosenbaum, harassed UCLA eye researcher who helped 10,000 children, has died

    By Max Taves UCLAStudents and patients support scientists at UCLA​Oft-threatened UCLA eye doctor and researcher Arthur Rosenbaum has died. Over his 36-year career the ophthalmologist treated 10,000 children for strabismus, or eye misalignment, using techniques he pioneered, in part, from ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    One In Four California Kids Have Never Seen A Dentist

    The other photos we might have used were too unpleasant​ A new study from UCLA researchers has one in four California having never seen a dentist. There's a lot of illuminating, and heartbreaking findings in the study, published in the journal Health Affairs. There were significant dispariti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Stage Raw: UCLA Live Drops Theater Programming

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON SHAHEED and THE ARSONISTSUCLA LIVE DROPS ITS INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL After more than a decade of the region's premier international theater programming, that has brought to UCLA's stages choral theater from Poland to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    'Suspicious Device' Found on UCLA Campus

    This morning, a "suspicious device" was found in the loading dock area of Covel Commons, a student dining facility, on the UCLA campus in Westwood, City News Service reports.​UCLA police evacuated Covel Commons, with the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad called in. The device was removed fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    UCLA Accepts One In Five Freshman Hopefuls For Fall

    ​UCLA only accepted about one in five in-state applicants for fall, a fraction that represents the toughest admission rate of all University of California schools, including UC Berkeley. The Westwood school admitted 13,020 freshmen from a record 57,651 applicants, the university announced Wed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Sexual Groper On The Loose At UCLA

    ​It appears that UCLA has a groper on the loose. Two more sexual assaults in which a man allegedly grabbed the private parts of women were reported Tuesday, according to the Daily Bruin newspaper. The alleged gropings near Westwood Boulevard and Le Conte Avenue just off-campus bring the numbe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    The Sexiest Rainy Day Scene Ever

    ​ This morning's storm seems to have passed, but you can live through one of the greatest rainy day scenes in all of cinema tonight at UCLA. As part of their ongoing tribute to Humphrey Bogart, the UCLA Film & Television Archive is screening The Big Sleep tonight at 7:30. Before the film thru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2010

    UCLA Student Arrested In Alleged Attempted Rape

    UCLA​An arrest has been made in the latest in a string of unrelated sexual assaults on and around the UCLA campus. Student Thaddeus Staniforth, originally from Fullerton, was taken into custody on suspicion of attempted rape, the school announced Saturday. Authorities allege the 25-year-old w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Outbreak Of Sexual Assaults At UCLA

    ​There were five sexual assaults on and around campus at UCLA in March, but they appear to be unrelated. The latest happened Wednesday at 3:25 a.m. near the Delta Terrace Residential Suites and De Neve Drive, according to a UCLA Police Department Crime Alert (PDF). Apparently the student step ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Big Rally Planned Over UC Fee Hikes, Higher Education Funding

    UCLA.​Opponents of recent higher education budget cuts that have caused extreme student fee hikes at UCLA and other University of California campuses are planning a major demonstration in Sacramento next month. The University of California Student Association will hold a rally at the state ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Free Screening: 'The Bitter Taste of Tea' Exposes Not So Fair Trade

    Bitter Taste of Tea​As part of its International Institute Human Rights Film Series, UCLA's James Bridges Theater will host a free screening of The Bitter Taste of Tea: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade tonight at 6:30. A documentary by Danish journalist Tom Heinemann--named "Best Investi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Former UCLA Health Worker Pleads Guilty To Accessing Celebrities' Medical Records

    UCLAUCLA Medical Center.​Fomer UCLA Healthcare System researcher Huping Zhou has pleaded guilty to violating parts of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and could be one of the first people in the country convicted under the law, federal authorities announced Friday. Afte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    UCLA Students Caught Sleeping; Bear Violated

    KTLA​UCLA often spins itself as the smarter, higher-GPA-having school in town, but by the looks of its Bruin bear sculpture, you'd have to chalk one up for the wit and fortitude of USC: Despite an annual student "security force" that's supposed to protect the bear and despite a tarp covering t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Students Stage Sit-In At UCLA

    A group of students at UCLA Thursday morning took over Campbell Hall to protest UC Board of Regents' likely approval of a 32 percent tuition hike that would put undergraduate costs to attend classes at the public campus above $10,000 annually.UCLACampbell Hall.​ A UCLA spokesman said "no acti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    UC Tuition Hits The Roof: 10k A Year Would Buy A Lot Of Beer

    This guy.​The University of California Board of Regents on Thursday bit the bullet and approved a 32 percent increase in tuition that will see a two-phase, $2,500 price hike that will put the public system's undergraduate education costs at more than 10,000 a year and triple tuition and fees f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Tuition At UC Schools Could Top $10,000 A Year

    Stuck with a $535 million gap in their budget, a University of California Board of Regents committee met at UCLA Wednesday and approved a plan that would raise annual undergraduate tuition fees above the $10,000 mark.UCLA​ The proposal that would see annual undergraduate costs reach $11,302, ... More >>

  • Stage

    October 22, 2009

    In the Land Where Theater Is Hip

    Two Polish productions coming to UCLA

  • Stage

    October 1, 2009

    Annette Bening as Medea at UCLA

    Me and my shadows

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Insured Workers Still Often Split the Bill

    Sometimes lost in the debate about health care, public option or not, is the sad fact that even people with decent insurance end up going into debt to pay for procedures that aren't covered. A recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found that 2.2 million Californians -- more than half t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Mount Wilson's Towercam Shows Lingering Smoke

    UCLA​Back online after backfire activity temporarily cut its connection to a nearby Internet server, Mount Wilson's Towercam surveys the surrounding San Gabriel Mountains, revealing, happily, blue sky -- something that had been ominously missing a week ago. Lingering trails of smoke serve as remin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Today in Photographs: September 3, 1947

    ​Union shoulder-pad makers picket a store whose manager draws boundary line to keep them out during a strike.LA Times/UCLA

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Mt. Wilson Observatory Saved, Thanks to Firefighters: An Appreciation

    UCLA​The 105-year-old Mount Wilson Observatory, which today was called "the birthplace of the expanding Universe" by Discover Magazine online, seemed on the verge of destruction just three days ago, evacuated of all personnel on Monday and surrounded by 25 firefighters who then had to flee as flam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2009

    Mount Wilson Communications Towers Threatened

    UCLA Dept of Physics & AstronomyThe View at 6:02 p.m.​For the past few days the Mount Wilson Towercam, maintained by UCLA's Physics and Astronomy Department, has unblinkingly captured the fierce progress of the Station Fire along Angeles Crest Highway. Now news sources including City News Serv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Today in Photographs: August 24, 1965

    ​Police roust members of the Congress of Racial Equality at City Hall protest in the aftermath of the Watts Riots .LA Times/UCLA

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Cuts Threaten UCLA Arts Library

    According to LAist, another library may bite the dust soon, thanks to state  budget cuts. This one is no local outpost of the LAPL, however, but UCLA's wonderful Arts Library, located on North Campus.  A tipster alerted writer Zach Behrens to both the planned closure and a petition drive t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    UCLA Officials: Undie Run Is Finished

    After seven brief seasons of existence, UCLA's Undie Run, a nocturnal event in which students run through Westwood streets and onto campus in their underwear on Wednesdays of finals weeks, will be no more. Thank university administrators, who pulled the plug on the storied event a few days ago, prob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2009

    Today in Photographs: July 3, 1959

    Original caption about a cat that served aboard a World War II attack transport: "Pooli, who rates three service ribbons and four battle stars, shows she can still get into her old uniform as she prepares to celebrate her 15th birthday."LA Times/UCLA

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Today in Photographs: July 2, 1970

    Just Kickin' It. Young Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson studies the team's playbook in his favorite room of his Bel-Air home.LA Times/UCLA

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2009

    Today in Photographs: May 16, 1986

    The L.A. Lakers' James Worthy leaps for a basket against Houston Rockets as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, right, looks on. (LA Times/UCLA)

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2009

    Today in Photographs: May 9, 1966

    Comedian Phyllis Diller wins frat house mom honors from UCLA's Alpha Epsilon Pi.LA Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Say ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 16, 2009

    GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

    Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    Bruin Ruin? UCLA's Newspaper Faces "Grim" Future

    L.A. Observed and others have noted that today UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper ran a front-page wrap-around ad for Haagen-Dazs ice cream. An editor's note by Anthony Pesce, linked to by LAist, admitted that the ad was contrived to make it appear as editorial copy. Forget ad reps -- at this point in pri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2009

    Today in Photographs: March 22, 1937

    Masses Transit:  Hundreds crowd in front of City Hall to get a glimpse of the city's new streetcars at a Transportation Week celebration.Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

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