UCLA's third annual International Edible Book Festival held on April 1 Read more...
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April 3, 8:32 pm
Edible Book Festival
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April 1, 6:27 am
Browsing history: A heritage site is being set up in Boelter Hall 3420, the room the first Internet message originated in
Lo and behold! The Internet was born
April 1, 2011 – In 1969, a group of UCLA engineers sent the first-ever Internet message from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. Leonard Kleinrock, computer science professor and Internet technology pioneer, recounts what the message was supposed to be and what actually happened.
The room where this message was sent from is in the works to become an Internet Heritage Site and Archive. Read the full story here.
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"Lo and behold! The Internet was born"When Brad Fidler started investigating the origins of the Internet at UCLA, there was no consensus on who created the technology and where it began. Read more...
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History doctoral candidate Brad Fidler discovered that the first Internet message was sent from a room on the UCLA campus in 1969, using the Interface Message Processor shown here.
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April 1, 6:22 am
Young Invincibles organization publishes a health care 'Graduation Toolkit' to help students navigate recent insurance changes
Nina Pavlovskaya spent her last year as an undergrad worrying about her health care options for after graduation. Read more...
News, Science & Health
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April 1, 6:18 am
The pill may not make you ill, specialists say, as each woman responds differently to its hormonal effects
Since its creation in 1960, the birth control pill has been used by 85 percent of all women at least once in their life. Read more...
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April 1, 6:15 am
Anti-melanoma drug Yervoy has been approved by the FDA after 11 percent of trial participants see improvement
The first drug proven to prolong the lives of patients with late-stage melanoma was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on March 25. Read more...
Campus, News
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March 31, 2:37 am
New UC Center for Laboratory Safety to develop optimal practices for safe lab research
A newly developed UCLA research center will be the first of its kind in the nation to study lab safety and develop optimal lab practices. Read more...
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March 31, 2:33 am
Plans for new tutoring labs are underway
Two new, proposed tutoring centers geared toward science and writing composition may help fill the gap left by closing the Covel Peer Learning Labs "“ if enough funding is granted. Tutoring services will be delegated to experts in each academic area. Read more...