Neil Bedi, a UCLA computer science alumnus, and fellow Tampa Bay Times reporter Kathleen McGrory were jointly awarded the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting on Friday.

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women presented an award for leadership in advancing gender equality to a member of the LA County Board of Supervisors on Thursday.

Kaashvi Mahajan felt disheartened on a recent call with her grandparents.
She had been hearing about the COVID-19 situation in India – where cases have dramatically increased – but was in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, over 1,400 miles away from her relatives in New Delhi, India.

Current graduating students will be permitted two guests to accompany them at their in-person spring commencement ceremony, UCLA announced in a campuswide email Friday. 
Following the continued decline of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County and recent decisions made by county public health officials, the university will be holding outdoor processions for commencement at Drake Stadium, said Monroe Gorden, vice chancellor for student affairs, in the statement.

After applying to eight schools with UCLA as her top choice, Alicia Kuo cried in excitement after she opened her admissions letter online.
With COVID-19 restrictions slowly rolling back in California, UCLA’s incoming students have accepted admission offers with the possibility of an in-person first quarter.

It wasn’t until her junior year of high school that Evelyn Hinojosa knew she wanted to go to college.
Then, it wasn’t until her third year at UCLA that Hinojosa could picture herself walking across the graduation stage.

More than 100 people gathered outside the LAPD headquarters Wednesday to protest the fatal Minnesota police shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.
Vigil observers set down candles and flowers to commemorate Wright.

Salsa Mazlan remembers making the decision to fly back to her home country of Brunei from Westwood at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The third-year anthropology student considered waiting for the Bruneian embassy to take action but chose to go home to be with family.

Warning: spoilers ahead.
The icons of both the Flag Smashers and the Avengers are destabilizing and crumbling.
Released Friday, the fourth segment of the “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” strains the characters’ morals while further developing the titular partnership.

This post was updated April 12 at 6:11 p.m. to reflect a clarified description of the Communication Board’s role in the editor in chief selection process. 
The UCLA Communications Board appointed an assistant News editor as editor in chief of the Daily Bruin for the 2021-2022 academic year.