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May 21, 2013
Teachers, family members and friends of more than 300 jubilant J.D. graduates and approximately 96 master of law graduates attended commencement ceremonies Friday at Dickson Court North. The UCLA School of Law graduation was the first of more...
May 20, 2013
UCLA professor Stuart Banner teaches property law as well as the law school’s Supreme Court Clinic and has clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Banner is also a lifelong baseball fan, who uses cases involving...
May 20, 2013
Despite budgetary constraints brought on by years of declining state funding, the University of California continues to outpace many of its peer institutions on critical measures of student success.
UC — and UCLA in particular — ...
May 20, 2013
The 27th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 and 27, and will feature artists such as Common, Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Jhene Aiko and others. Jazz Reggae is a two-day festival, the largest student-run music...
May 20, 2013
On Tuesday last week, a middle-aged scholar lectured in a Royce Hall conference room on the role of Padua as the true cradle of the Italian Renaissance. Later that day, that same Ph.D. candidate stepped into a different world. He walked...
May 17, 2013
Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of the forthcoming book, "Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm," by San Diego State University Press. This op-ed was...
May 17, 2013
Hammer Museum appoints Connie Butler as chief curator,
Aram Moshayedi as curator
Connie Butler has been named the new chief curator at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Since 2006 Butler has been The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings...
May 17, 2013
It was 6 a.m. Wednesday in Pauley Pavilion, and dozens of undergrads were hoisting lights onto scaffolding, pounding floorboards and pushing massive speakers on dollies into place. Two days before Spring Sing, these members of the UCLA Student...
May 16, 2013
"I've saved people's lives. I'm a pretty smart guy," said Jorge Gonzalez, 24, who returned home to East L.A. after four years of military service in Iraq. "I thought that counted for something."
Gonzalez was ready to find a job and begin a...
May 16, 2013
Dr. Susan Partovi is a family medicine physician and a volunteer instructor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the medical director for Homeless Health Care Los Angeles. This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on May...
