UCLA alumni Salvador Ceja and Sergio Marquez were looking for ways to pay off their student loans when they stumbled across a contest. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumni Salvador Ceja and Sergio Marquez, who graduated in spring 2009 with degrees in architecture, recently won $5,000 for designing a toddler-safe swimming pool.
The exploratory drilling phase of the citywide project to create a subway extension beneath West Los Angeles has been completed, and the whole subway extension could be finished by 2019, according to UCLA transportation officials. Read more...
University librarian Gary Strong looked up from his desk with a solemn expression. Read more...
During a June trip with Project Nicaragua, Iman Zahedi, the group's co-director, interviewed a mother who had just been told that her first-born child would die the next day from spina bifida. Read more...
Photo: Members of the UCLA campus group Project Nicaragua work with advisor Dr. Jorge Lazareff (fourth from left), a professor of pediatric neurosurgery, to coordinate projects that set out to improve medical coniditions in Nicaragua and to give students experience with the policy and social aspects of health care.
The impending closure of the UCLA Arts Library has some UCLA students and faculty outraged over the loss of what, to them, is one of the university's greatest treasures: the UCLA Arts Library. Read more...
UCLA will make space for hundreds more graduate students on Weyburn Avenue with new university housing dated for completion in 2012. Read more...
Alice Wexler, a research scholar at UCLA who has written two books on Huntington's Disease, said there was a time when the disease was heavily stigmatized and physicians saw no purpose in treating it. Read more...
