Saba Riazati, editor-in-chief for The Daily Bruin

Robert Faturechi has really always been an incredible journalist. His enthusiasm and independent investigation of the truth have truly been inspiring traits within the newsroom.

I am amazed to see his comfort in asking his source on the phone provocative questions -- and that quality has never gone away. Robert's courage to question occurrences and localize them to the degree that they have a direct impact on our readers has always been a defining quality of his style.

Robert has a unique storytelling ability. He has been able to present readers with a truly engaging narrative about everything topic he has ever covered. One piece that stands out took six months to produce counting the time he had to wait for his document requests to be fulfilled. Robert's investigation into a scandal within the UCLA Dentistry School is among the best enterprise pieces I've seen in a long time.

For his young age, Robert has been able to grab the attention of nationally respected papers like the LA Times with some of the pieces he's written.

Robert's laid back style certainly has never kept him from pursuing a complete story, if anything, it has allowed sources to trust him much more.

Amy Emmert, adviser for The Daily Bruin

Robert Faturechi is one of the best student journalists I've ever worked with. He has had an opportunity at the Daily Bruin to work on a great variety of stories, including a months-long investigation into the UCLA School of Dentistry that uncovered admissions impropriety. Robert is a tenacious and painstaking reporter and also has a very developed sense of his ethical responsibilities. Robert's award-winning dentistry school story was picked up by several regional media, including the L.A. Times, and brought needed scrutiny to the dentistry program. After it was published, implicated university administrators pulled all sorts of pranks to try to discredit and harass Robert, including contacting the Society of Professional Journalists to lodge a claim of unethical reporting and also including a legal request to access Robert's notes, e-mails and other documents regarding the story through the California Public Records Request. Although these incidents were ridiculous, unfounded and incredibly childish and annoying, Robert kept his cool throughout. In fact, his main concern when the Daily Bruin received the letter requesting his notes was that we be sure to adhere to the 10-day time limit in replying to the request, since he'd been shirked on that detail of the law so many times and had spent months trying to collect similar documents.

Samuel Allen, sports editor for The Daily Bruin

Last fall he broke a huge news story on an admissions scandal in the UCLA dentistry school, beating the Los Angeles Times to the story. He edited and assigned a feature on undocumented students at UCLA that ran in February. The Drudge Report linked to both of those stories, and our website received a huge number of hits after they were published.

Source | The Daily Bruin
UCLA’s elite orthodontics residency program has violated University of California policy and standards governing public schools by giving special consideration in admissions to major donors and their relatives.

Source | The Daily Bruin
It’s been eight long months in the making, but everything is finally ready, and hours ahead of schedule. The signs announcing a grand opening have been printed and hung, the fruit has been diced into bite-sized pieces and the frozen yogurt machines are patiently humming. So why is Chong Lee – co-founder of Polar Monkey – so tense?

Source | The Daily Bruin
Since moving into the Chancellor’s Residence – located on campus behind the Broad Art Center – the Blocks have used their broken radios and other quirky decorative items to personalize a residence that can often feel more like a banquet hall than a home. Each year, roughly 3,000 visitors flock to events on the mansion’s grounds.