From the promise of solar and wind power to the degeneration of human vision capabilities, a series of lectures to be delivered this week by Nobel laureate Walter Kohn will canvas a range of scientific hot topics. Read more...
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Walter Kohn, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, will speak at UCLA this week as part of first annual Green Family Lecture Series.
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A faculty council will vote on June 7 whether the UCLA Anderson School of Management will become financially independent from the university. Read more...
Students participating in the event made one mobile made up of 1,000 cranes. Student group Bruins Fighting Pediatric Cancer, the organizers of the event, will give the cranes to cancer patients at Mattel's Childrens Hospital UCLA. Read more...
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Divya Gupta, second-year biology student, participates in the third annual Cranes for Cancer event, which is put on by Bruins Fighting Pediatric Cancer.
Growing up in an area of New Jersey polluted by smoke from burning garbage dumps, Jackson said he understood the relationship between public health and the environment from a young age. Read more...
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UCLA Professor Richard Jackson
This fall, students can learn how to be philanthropists Â"“ and donate $100,000 to local nonprofits. Read more...
Students are spearheading an outreach effort to sway faculty opinion in a vote over a proposed "diversity-related" general education requirement. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA's undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
