Sunday, May 24

NomCalm is a new app that monitors dining hall crowd levels

As a resident on the Hill about 2 1/2 years ago, Te Luan remembers having a hard time finding open tables in the often-crowded dining halls. These experiences later inspired him to develop the idea for an app to help students save time while eating in the dining halls. Read more...

Photo: Steven Beck, a first-year computer science and engineering student; Lee Rubinoff, a fourth-year business economics student; and Te Luan, a UCLA alumnus, recently created a new iPhone application that allows users to check how crowded an eatery is on the Hill before they go.






Mayoral candidate Garcetti visits Westwood

Dolores Vera was heading home from Margarita Monday, explaining to her friends why she plans to vote for Eric Garcetti in Tuesday’s mayoral primary, when the city councilman came up to her on a street in Westwood and offered her a Diddy Riese cookie. Read more...


Bruin co-founds company to simplify coding

Setting aside job offers and sleep for the sake of a project they jokingly call their child, a UCLA student and his friend are working to develop their young company. Read more...

Photo: Hunter Owens, a fourth-year communication studies student, and his high school friend Mark Nadal co-founded a company that offers a website design program, with the aim of eliminating the coding to allow customers to interact directly with the website interface.