On April 13, UCLA, the Westwood Neighborhood Council, the Westwood Community Council and a host of community co-sponsors organized a virtual candidate forum featuring the four candidates running for the City Council's Fifth District. Candidates included Jimmy Biblarz, Scott Epstein, Katy Young Yaroslavsky and Sam Yebri. A recording of this event is available here.
In a special evening ceremony on Friday, April 1, several hundred people gathered to celebrate the culmination of nearly three years of work, as artist and professor Judith Baca unveiled “La Memoria de la Tierra: UCLA.” The nearly 80-foot mural is featured on the north side of Ackerman Union’s outdoor terrace.
UCLA will be the first public university to host a Break Through Tech AI hub — part of a national program designed to teach artificial intelligence to a greater diversity of students — bringing AI education to college students from underserved groups across Southern California.
More than 50 veterans joined the UCLA baseball team on the field last week to swing a bat and catch some balls at the annual Jackie Robinson Day Fantasy Camp for Veterans.
UCLA was able to host the popular event for the first time since the pandemic, and will begin holding free recreation programs for veterans on the new practice field, in addition to ongoing free admission to baseball games for all veterans.
During the height of the pandemic, outdoor dining opportunities allowed local restaurants to remain open with safe options. A recent UCLA Lewis Center report examines the relationship between eligibility for LA Al Fresco outdoor dining opportunities and street and sidewalk conditions across the city. Read the findings, along with recommendations to the program as the city considers making outdoor dining a permanent part of LA’s landscape.
Mangione, a distinguished professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the UCLA Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, will work with the task force to develop and disseminate evidence-based preventive services recommendations and help lessen systemic racism in the clinical preventive services industry. The task force is made up of an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine.
