UCLA is looking to expand its marine research as it collaborates with the Southern California Marine Institute to create a facility in the Port of Los Angeles. Read more...
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Plans for a collaborative marine research facility between Southern California Marine Institute and UCLA, City Dock #1, were recently announced.
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In 1968, a fraternity on campus put up a banner explicitly listing those not invited to its "Viva Zapata" party: "no Negros, no Japs, no dogs." Read more...
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Professor Paul Von Blum was among the many UCLA faculty members active in the Civil Rights Movement.
Segregation is more of a problem today than it was in the 1960s, according to researchers at the Civil Rights Project, an equality-focused research organization at UCLA. Read more...
Alexis Popkow's mother was an engineer in the 1970s, when the ratio of men to women engineers was nearly 20-to-one, Popkow said. Read more...
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Physics graduate student Alexis Popkow is one of the few female students in her department. The physics program has the highest male-to-female ratio at UCLA.
Jerry Brown has been in office for 10 days, and education looms as a challenge for the new governor. Read more...
The reopening of Rieber dining hall, which was expected to happen sometime this quarter, has been pushed back to fall 2011. Read more...
Recognizing the importance of technological innovation, the UCLA Humanities Division has created the digital humanities minor, which will begin offering new courses next fall. Read more...
