The opening of a new multipurpose facility for graduate students, which will include a gym and a common space for those living in university apartments, has been postponed until January 2012. Read more...
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Kinross Recreation Center, nicknamed K-Rec, was scheduled to open late October but will be postponed until January because of delays in obtaining building materials.
Visiting the campus more than five decades after he obtained his bachelor's and doctorate degree at UCLA, Richard Heck only recognized Dickson Plaza and William G. Young Hall. Read more...
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UCLA alumnus and Nobel Prize winner Richard Heck received the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
Saturday night.
Students and families will be able to pay for housing, tuition and transportation charges all under one billing system, beginning Sunday. Read more...
In 2009, a newly hired UCLA employee obtained a $100,000 NASA research contract for a project at his private firm. Read more...
Poster board tombstones with facts about social and political conditions in Afghanistan lay on the grass in front of Janss Steps on Monday as part of the "Field of Forgotten Facts." Read more...
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Students perform a traditional Afghan dance in Bruin Plaza on Thursday as part of Afghanistan Awareness Week.
The Los Angeles Police Department and the UCLA Department of Mathematics have teamed up to use quantitative analysis and computer programming to help solve ongoing criminal investigations. Read more...
Zheng, a fifth-year computer science student, only started programming two years ago. But he is now at the front of his own student-run course offered by the Association for Computing Machinery at UCLA. Read more...
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Song Zheng, a fifth-year computer science student and winner of Facebook’s SoCal Camp Hackathon at UCLA, gives students programming lessons. His course is offered through the Association of Computing Machinery.
