The Office of Residential Life is discussing the possibility of creating a humanities-themed housing community in Hitch Suites. Read more...
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January 25, 1:46 am
Office of Residential Life is working on proposals for more humanities-themed housing on the hill
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January 25, 1:42 am
Q&A with Jesse Cheng: The student regent opens up about the budget crisis and how it will affect the UC
UC Board of Regents member Jesse Cheng and Student Regent-designate Alfredo Mireles Jr. Read more...
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Student Regent Jesse Cheng attended the UC Board of Regents meeting at UC San Diego last week.
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January 25, 1:40 am
UCLA’s game lab, headed by Design | Media Arts Professor Eddo Stern, lets Bruins take the video-game medium to new places
The UCLA Game Lab is a bright, quirky room that looks more fantastical than practical. Read more...
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Hayley Greenhalgh, right, a fourth-year Design | Media Arts student, models a sensory capturing device used in game simulation in the UCLA Game Lab.
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January 25, 1:38 am
Campus candlelight vigil planned for victims of Tucson violence; USAC President Jasmine Hill to speak
Bruin Democrats will host a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening in remembrance of the victims of the recent shooting in Arizona. Read more...
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January 24, 1:04 am
UCLA’s LArge Plasma Device helps understand universe, create innovative technology through experimentation with artificial plasma
Somewhere in the midst of the Westwood underground lies a 19 meter-long machine. The LArge Plasma Device, as it is officially called, produces plasma in artificial form and takes high-speed photos of the material, which is so volatile that it splits apart in a millionth of a second. Plasma is the most common state of matter in the universe, found in stars and the space between them. Read more...
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Walter Gekelman, director of the Basic Plasma Science Facility, shows students the LArge Plasma Device, a machine used to help physicists understand plasma.
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January 24, 1:01 am
Athletes become pen pals with local students through UCLA Athletics’ Adopt a Classroom program
Six-year-old Jadon Graiwer was ecstatic when he learned he and his classmates would be pen pals with a UCLA athlete. "I don't want to be a Trojan room," Graiwer said about the possibility of his first-grade classroom pairing up with a USC athlete. Read more...
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First-grade student Noa Schwartz gets an autograph from Matt Wiet, a sophomore defender on the UCLA men’s soccer team. (courtesy of Kelly Schwartz)
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January 21, 1:45 am
Fall 2011 applications hit record high for UCLA
Once again, UCLA claimed the spot as the most applied-to campus in the University of California system this year. Read more...