While most teaching assistants are graduate students, there are some opportunities for undergraduates to take on leadership roles in the classroom. Read more...
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Third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology and psychobiology students Eden Maloney and Elaine Chiu were undergraduate teaching fellows last quarter.
After a record number of freshman applicants, UCLA accepted 25.3 percent for the 2011 academic year. Read more...
Disaster preparedness organizations in Los Angeles and at UCLA have seen increased interest following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Read more...
Resnick, a general representative for the Undergraduate Students Association Council, confirmed the date of the first farmers market, which will take place April 20 from 3-7 p.m. Read more...
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Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative Emily Resnick’s gym-traffic project, which will take photos of gym areas and link them to the UCLA Recreation website, will launch this quarter.
Health care reform is happening within the UCLA Health System, but it is not necessarily President Barack Obama's bill driving the reform, administrators say. In a presentation to the UC Board of Regents on March 17, John Stobo, the UC senior vice president for health sciences and services, emphasized that the UC must address spiraling health care costs regardless of the fate of the bill, which has been threatened with repeal by Republicans. "My feeling is that (the bill) is not going to be the major driver (of UC hospital reform)," Stobo said in an interview this week. Read more...
Accidents involving university-owned vehicles have cost UCLA more than $2 million over the past five years, a UCLA safety specialist said. Read more...
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Campus accidents involving university vehicles have cost UCLA more than $2 million over the last five years. Cellphone distraction is the leading cause of accidents.
The Judicial Board found discrepancies in a student government officer's testimony when he was called to bear witness in his own hearing on March 11.
In November, Rustom Z. Birdie entered a contractual relationship with startup web company Jobbook.com. Read more...
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Rustom Z. Birdie, the USAC financial supports commissioner, was called to a Judicial Board hearing regarding his promotion of Jobbook.com.
