It is June – and if the poets are right, I ought to be tired of being brave.
Perhaps that reads at odds with the headline of what is my final byline, but I’m unusually at a loss for words.

On Oct. 16, 2023 – nine days after an attack by Palestinian political party and militant group Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel, and more than 2,700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli retaliatory airstrikes – UCLA Health administrative leaders sent an email to the medical community.

This post was updated April 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Two students are suing UCLA and the UC Board of Regents for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities, thereby violating federal and state law.

The Pediatric AIDS Coalition hosted its annual Dance Marathon on March 1, raising $55,041 total. Participants jumped and spun their way through “morale dances” and performances by UCLA student acts from 2 p.m.

Around 150 people protested outside a UC Board of Regents meeting Tuesday to call for divestment from companies associated with the Israeli military and condemn the continuation of the Israeli military’s bombing of the Gaza Strip. 
The protest – led by organizations including Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA and the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Los Angeles, Orange County and Inland Empire chapter – began with a noon press conference in front of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, where the regents are meeting from Tuesday to Thursday.

This post was updated March 10 at 6:51 p.m.
UCLA will implement a new Initiative to Combat Antisemitism, Chancellor Julio Frenk announced in a Monday email to UCLA community members and parents.

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Then-newly hired nurse Kemi Reeves sat alone in her car, processing her first day of work. That day, she saw nurses managing very sick patients – patients who at smaller hospitals would be in intensive care units but were placed into her intermediate care unit at UCLA, she said.

While the onset of winter marks a return to home for most Bruins, the city of angels takes on a new glow. From Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles, various government and commercial entities hosted spirited lighting ceremonies, ushering in the start of the holiday season.

This post was updated Oct. 24 at 11:44 p.m.
Two health care propositions will ask Californians to decide this November on how to spend revenue from Medi-Cal-related programs.

This post was updated Oct. 7 at 12:21 a.m.
Around 70 people attended a vigil Wednesday for Marcellus Williams, a Black man executed in Missouri despite doubts over his case’s legal proceedings.