Getting by on the adrenaline of an unlimited supply of Red Bull, four current and former UCLA computer science students sat in front of 30-inch computer screens at the Facebook grounds in Palo Alto last Thursday, writing code for a photo-streaming application. Read more...
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Four UCLA computer science students and alumni received an honorable mention at Facebook’s national Camp Hackathon finals in Palo Alto.
For the past two years, Lovlean Purewal has had to eat the same food in the dining halls day after day "“ salads from the salad bar or a burger without buns. Her fear: accidentally eating any wheat, rye or barley products that contain gluten. Read more...
The movement has also recently been the focus of a broader initiative to increase dialogue between campus departments within the social sciences. Last month, the UCLA Division of Social Sciences created a forum to discuss the Occupy protests. Read more...
Reports of fraud in federal research awards have risen in recent years, and universities and the federal government are acting to halt the trend. Read more...
Rumors spread quickly when Anne Rimoin and her team arrived at a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to take blood samples from every person over the age of 1. Some villagers believed the UCLA assistant professor in epidemiology and her team were stealing blood for white Europeans to stay young, Rimoin said. Read more...
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Anne Rimoin and her team traveled to a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to get specimens of human monkeypox, a disease prevalent in the region. Nine years later, Rimoin still returns to the Congo to conduct her research.
University of California officials say they plan to reach out more extensively to students in the coming weeks, after a teleconference meeting Monday that was punctuated by protests and included an unusually long public comment period. Read more...
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UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White, left, and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block speak to a member of Occupy UCLA during the UC Board of Regents meeting in the James West Alumni Center on Monday.
The book, released Nov. 23, details the university's major figures and happenings since its origins, as well as new information about the first 50 years of UCLA that has become available since the last book recording the school's history. Read more...
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“UCLA: The First Century,” released Nov. 23, is the first history book written about UCLA in 42 years.
