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.
A nightmare budget scenario for the University of California loomed closer Tuesday afternoon when Gov. Jerry Brown announced he was ending talks with Republican legislators. Read more...
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...
In the wake of a partial meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, debate has emerged about whether California's nuclear reactors put the earthquake-prone state similarly at risk. California has two nuclear reactors in San Luis Obispo and near San Clemente that together produced 15.5 percent of the state's energy in 2009, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute. A request to extend the lifetime of the Diablo Canyon reactor by 20 years has been postponed because of the events in Japan. Both Sen. Read more...
