This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6:08 p.m.
Urban Outfitters’ Westwood location shuttered Thursday after over 22 years on Westwood Boulevard.
The lifestyle retailer, which sold clothing, dorm decorations and music products at 1028 and 1038 Westwood Blvd., was among more than a dozen Westwood Village properties that UC Investments – the office of the UC Regents’ chief investment officer – bought in July for nearly $50 million, according to the Commercial Observer.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6:13 p.m.
Nearly 10,000 UC doctors – including UCLA Health employees – have started the largest unionization campaign of attending doctors in United States history.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6:18 p.m.
UCLA’s current design media arts major will be split into three new majors starting fall 2027.
The department will offer separate design, games and computational art majors, said Eddo Stern, a design media arts professor.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6:14 p.m.
Editor’s note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, you can reach the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the United States by calling or texting 988.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 9:03 p.m.
About 60 parents rallied outside Murphy Hall on Monday to protest the closure of two UCLA childcare centers.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 9:07 p.m.
A UCLA researcher received a new Amazon computing grant to make multilingual artificial intelligence more accessible.
Saadia Gabriel, an assistant professor of computer science, was awarded $250,000 of compute credits – which provide processing time, memory and storage on online computer hardware – through Amazon’s Build on Trainium grant.

Jordan Roiland, the newly appointed student regent-designate, is looking to bridge gaps between students and the UC Board of Regents.
The board appointed Roiland, a student in the UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco joint medical program, to be the 2027-28 student regent at its July meeting, held at UCSF.