Growing up in Nigeria, Chioma Udeagbala wanted to be a doctor like her father. Read more...

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Law student Chioma Udeagbala will speak at the UCLA School of Law commencement ceremony on Friday.

Despite immense scientific evidence to the contrary, celebrity endorsement and a lack of scientific education have made Americans much more susceptible to the argument that vaccines can cause autism. Read more...

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(Left to right) Students Lincoln Pitcher, Ellen Watkins and Myer Rickless (far right) won Ruth Simon’s (third from left) award for undergraduate research.

The professor of chemistry works closely with graduate students in her research lab and via a pre-professional training program she helped to develop on campus. Read more...

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Chemistry Professor Robin Garrell (left) poses with a group of graduate students. Garrell will become the new dean of the graduate division on July 1.

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Being aware of the issues is only the first step toward social change. To that end, the Undergraduate Student Association Council's Community Service Commission is holding Issues Awareness Week, a three-day event designed to not only promote understanding of social issues that impact the greater L.A. Read more...

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Fourth-year biochemistry student Jonathan Ditty is one of the founders of the Happy Feet Clinic, a clinic that provides foot care for the homeless. His organization is a part of the Community Service Commission’s Issues Awareness Week.

Mark Hansen was supposed to retire at Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of AT&T. But he soon became so involved with statistics research that he went on to teach the subject at UCLA. Read more...

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UCLA statistics Professor Mark Hansen teamed up with The New York Times to produce a time-based representation of how NYT content is shared on Twitter.

By 6 p.m., a line of eager fans who had snaked around Young Hall were attempting to push themselves into the already-packed room, lining the aisles and crowding all of the doorways. Read more...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political activist Noam Chomsky speaks at Young Hall Saturday on political unrest in the Middle East.