The North Westwood Neighborhood Council elected a board member and urged the city of Los Angeles to address housing and homelessness concerns at its August meeting.

The UC signed on to an amicus brief filed July 22, standing by Harvard University’s April 2025 lawsuit against the Trump administration.
The University was one of 36 colleges and universities that signed the brief, which urges the First Circuit Court of Appeals to side with Harvard in its lawsuit to restore the nearly $2.2 billion in research grants that the federal government suspended in April 2025.

This post was updated Aug. 9 at 6:37 p.m.
The UC’s decision to reconsider standardized testing requirements has reignited a debate over students’ readiness.
More than 3,000 UC STEM faculty members signed a May letter calling on the University to reconsider standardized testing amid concerns about students’ preparedness in math, writing and verbal reasoning.

This post was updated Aug. 9 at 6:25 p.m.
A historic single-screen theater in Westwood will reopen as soon as October after a more than two-year wait.

This post was updated Aug. 9 at 6:40 p.m.
UC President James Milliken urged Congress to address federal research grant disbursement delays in a July 29 letter.

This post was updated Aug. 10 at 10:09 a.m.
Santa Monica buses will no longer serve stops along Gayley Avenue and Hilgard Avenue and will move to more central locations on campus starting Sunday.

This post was updated Aug. 9 at 6:48 p.m.
Measles cases in the United States have reached a new peak since the 1990s amid falling national vaccination rates.