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Campus
March 20, 2026 3:14 p.m.
An electric scooter sits on campus. UCPD is investigating an e-scooter theft that happened outside Dodd Hall on Wednesday evening, according to a Friday Clery Timely Warning. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCPD is investigating an electric scooter theft that happened at Dodd Hall on Wednesday evening, according to a Friday Clery Timely Warning.
Multiple e-scooters have been stolen across campus, with recent incidents occurring near Dodd Hall and Lu Valle Commons, according to the alert.
By Alexandra Crosnoe
Higher Education
March 20, 2026 1:41 a.m.SAN FRANCISCO – The UC Board of Regents approved a tuition increase for UCLA’s dentistry program at its Wednesday meeting.
The academic and student affairs committee approved the tuition increase for the dentistry program – as well as for a nursing program at UC Irvine and pharmacy programs at UCI and UC San Francisco – at its bimonthly meeting, held Tuesday and Wednesday at UCSF.
By Josephine Murphy
Academics
March 19, 2026 12:04 a.m.UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department votes to remove César E. Chávez from its name
This post was updated March 19 at 10:45 a.m.
UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department unanimously voted Wednesday afternoon to remove César E. Chávez from its name following sexual abuse allegations against the labor leader.
By Amanda Velasco and Natalia Mochernak
A Closer Look
March 18, 2026 10:02 p.m.EVP office hosts fair promoting wellness resources, student health organizations
The Basic Needs Farmers Market and Health Fair connected hundreds of students with underused wellness resources.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s External Vice President, Sherry Zhou, hosted the fair in Wilson Plaza.
By Sashi Atkinson Osorio
News
March 18, 2026 4:01 p.m.UC Regents committee recommends $351 million for UCLA student housing project
This post was updated March 19 at 1:15 p.m.
The UC Board of Regents’s Finance and Capital Strategies Committee recommended a budget of $351 million to build new UCLA student housing on Levering Ave.
By Maggie Konecky
Los Angeles
March 18, 2026 2:25 p.m.UC approves $298.2 million budget to convert LA building into UCLA Health complex
The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex.
The project will convert an office building in El Segundo into UCLA Health South Bay, which will house a Sports Medicine Institute and create community fill and specialty pharmacies.
By Josephine Murphy
A Closer Look
March 15, 2026 6:57 p.m.UCLA Health is leading the effort to treat and destigmatize addiction
Dr. Julio Meza lost two family members to addiction-related illnesses when he was a child.
Now, as a UCLA Health physician, he leads a program providing doctors with addiction-specific training.
By Zoe Wolfers
Higher Education
March 15, 2026 3:19 p.m.‘Just trying to advance your work’: Mark Tramo’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein
A UCLA professor sought donations from and spoke about his scientific research with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the financier’s initial 2008 conviction, according to U.S.
By Phoebe Huss
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