Forty-five years ago, he sent the first ever instant message from the halls of Boelter to a computer in a Stanford lab. The Stanford computer crashed almost instantly, flashing just the letters "LO" before going blank. Read more...
Photo: Leonard Kleinrock, one of the Internet’s early pioneers, spoke to about 30 students in a crowded Boelter Hall classroom Wednesday. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
The graduate student government elected UCLA law student Milan Chatterjee to fill a vacant cabinet seat Wednesday. Chatterjee, formerly the director of Graduate Students Association’s discretionary funding, ran against Heidi Alexander and Matthew FitzGerald for the GSA vice president of internal affairs position. Read more...
A Los Angeles-based philanthropist recently donated $10 million to launch a new center at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman of Participant Media and former president of eBay, gave $10 million to create the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment. Read more...
Police arrested a UCLA alumnus Tuesday in connection with the weekend theft of more than 50 MacBook laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library. Read more...
Photo: UCPD retrieved 53 laptops late Tuesday from Seyed Hesari’s Hollywood home. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
One of Alana Sanchez-Prak’s larger host families during her trip to the Philippines relied on coconut trees as its primary source of income. The mother of the family remembered watching the roof fly off her home and seeing the trees collapse while trying to get her family to safety. Read more...
Photo: Undeclared second-year Alana Sanchez-Prak gives lecture about a typhoon aid relief project that she worked on in the Philippines. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
#attachment_202260 { margin:5px; } About 100 students met in a Haines Hall classroom Monday to fine-tune the language of a divestment resolution the undergraduate student government will vote on next week. Read more...
The graduate student government is holding a special election on Wednesday to fill its vice president of internal affairs seat, after former student government officer Hope McCoy resigned in September. Read more...
