Wednesday, May 27


Bruins earn honorable mention in Facebook’s national Camp Hackathon finals

Getting by on the adrenaline of an unlimited supply of Red Bull, four current and former UCLA computer science students sat in front of 30-inch computer screens at the Facebook grounds in Palo Alto last Thursday, writing code for a photo-streaming application. Read more...

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Four UCLA computer science students and alumni received an honorable mention at Facebook’s national Camp Hackathon finals in Palo Alto.





Tracking Disease in the Congo

Rumors spread quickly when Anne Rimoin and her team arrived at a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to take blood samples from every person over the age of 1. Some villagers believed the UCLA assistant professor in epidemiology and her team were stealing blood for white Europeans to stay young, Rimoin said. Read more...

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Anne Rimoin and her team traveled to a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to get specimens of human monkeypox, a disease prevalent in the region. Nine years later, Rimoin still returns to the Congo to conduct her research.


UC officials plan for more public input

University of California officials say they plan to reach out more extensively to students in the coming weeks, after a teleconference meeting Monday that was punctuated by protests and included an unusually long public comment period. Read more...

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UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White, left, and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block speak to a member of Occupy UCLA during the UC Board of Regents meeting in the James West Alumni Center on Monday.