Campus
April 6, 2026 6:39 p.m.
Kerckhoff Hall, which houses the offices of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, is pictured at twilight. Thirty-eight candidates will run for council in 2026. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated April 7 at 11:12 p.m.
The 2026 Undergraduate Students Association Council election ballot will feature 38 candidates.
Seven candidates will run unopposed for their position.
By Natalia Mochernak
A Closer Look
April 5, 2026 8:29 p.m.Q&A: Dr. Gail Wyatt reflects on career, advocacy after receiving humanitarian award
Gail Wyatt, a distinguished professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, received the Association of Black Women Physicians’ Humanitarian Award in October.
By Callie Wiesner and Zoya Alam
California
April 5, 2026 8:24 p.m.State ballot proposal would approve $8.4 billion in bonds to fund medical research
This post was updated April 5 at 9:54 p.m.
California nonprofits are working to put an initiative funding immunology research on the November ballot.
The initiative would authorize $8.4 billion of state bonds to support the research – half of which would be required to support developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and heart disease – if 546,651 signatures are collected for it to appear on the ballot.
By Alexis Muchnik and Delilah Brumer
A Closer Look
April 5, 2026 6:29 p.m.UCLA women’s basketball fans celebrate first NCAA title in Phoenix
This post was updated April 5 at 9:42 p.m.
PHOENIX – Third-year mathematics/economics student Gabriel Sundaramoorthy said the idea came to him at 10 p.m. Saturday night.
Phoenix, where UCLA women’s basketball was set to compete for its first NCAA title in 14 hours, was a six-hour drive away from campus.
By Alexandra Crosnoe
California
April 5, 2026 3:41 p.m.Judge blocks Trump administration’s data demands over alleged affirmative action
This post was updated April 5 at 9:46 p.m.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Friday from requiring California universities to share the personal data of applicants and admitted students with the federal government.
By Josephine Murphy
Campus
April 4, 2026 11:14 p.m.Child care teachers reported understaffing years before coworker’s arrest, document shows
Editor’s note: This story contains details of sexual abuse involving children that some readers may find disturbing.
Teachers at UCLA’s Early Care and Education centers told administrators in 2017 that they were struggling to meet teacher-student ratios and did not have enough supervision in their classrooms.
By Maggie Konecky
California
April 2, 2026 10:10 p.m.UCLA student organization sponsors state bill targeting digital sexual harassment
A UCLA student organization sponsored a state bill to require California colleges to create policies that address technology-facilitated sexual harassment.
The bill, if passed, would require California community colleges, California State University and the UC to provide students who have digitally generated sexually explicit materials made of them with funds of up to $1,000 to help them identify and remove the material.
By Josephine Murphy
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