Saturday, May 2

Network upgrades may cost students

Changes to an existing wire-tapping law have the potential to pose a financial burden for universities and college students nationwide. The federal government is requiring universities to overhaul their Internet networks by spring of 2007 to allow law enforcement officials to better monitor online communication. Read more...


UCLA appoints leaders to teach

Gray Davis, former governor of California, and Jim Brulte, former minority leader of state senate, will soon be joining the ranks of politicians hired by UCLA to teach undergraduate students public policy. Read more...


Chinatown in for a change

David Tran vividly recalls taking frequent childhood trips with his family to Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. The fourth-year sociology student, son of Chinese immigrants from Vietnam, said they often went to get the herbs and foods they could not find anywhere else in the city. Read more...


SCIENCE&HEALTH: Science reaches out to students

Armed with raspberry juice, pennies and an aluminum tray with foam and magnets floating in an inch of water, members of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA outreach program are attempting to enrich overall science education throughout Los Angeles County and inspire a new generation of high school students to pursue science degrees in college. Read more...


SCIENCE&HEALTH: Data in the palm of your hand

A pilot program at the UCLA Medical Center, which uses wireless technology to enable access to real time patient data by hospital physicians and nurses, is already increasing patient care efficiency and catching the eyes of hospitals across the nation. Read more...


Room for improvement

Correction appended To many, downtown is about the freeways and side streets, so congested that commuters have little left to do but collapse into a meditative state, contemplating the color of smog that day. Read more...