Crouched on the ground in the middle of Broxton Avenue, Sharon Tran put the finishing touches on a mural of the original Ralphs in Westwood Village. Read more...
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Second-years microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student Sharon Tran and Design | Media Arts student Bonnie Chen participated in WOMP.
Shipping containers had been thrown across the dock yard, and cars were strewn across the street when Jonathan Stewart visited the Kashima port in eastern Japan in late March. Read more...
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UCLA professor Jonathan Stewart (back center), and a team of engineers traveled to Japan to understand why the structures in the area failed.
(Courtesy: Jonathan Stewart)
Starting this week, the Community Service Officer Evening Van Service route will be extended to run south of Wilshire Boulevard to accommodate greater student demand. Read more...
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The Community Service Officer Evening Van Service will extend its route to south-of-Wilshire.
In American medical schools, students are required to go to psychiatric hospitals and attain clinical hands-on training, regardless of the specialty they choose. Read more...
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Trang Ho examines the teeth of a child in Vietnam. Ho volunteered with the Project Vietnam Foundation to provide medical care to impoverished villages.
(Courtesy of Trang Ho)
April 1, 2011 – In 1969, a group of UCLA engineers sent the first-ever Internet message from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. Leonard Kleinrock, computer science professor and Internet technology pioneer, recounts what the message was supposed to be and what actually happened.
The room where this message was sent from is in the works to become an Internet Heritage Site and Archive. Read the full story here.
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"Lo and behold! The Internet was born"When Brad Fidler started investigating the origins of the Internet at UCLA, there was no consensus on who created the technology and where it began. Read more...
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History doctoral candidate Brad Fidler discovered that the first Internet message was sent from a room on the UCLA campus in 1969, using the Interface Message Processor shown here.
Diana Meneses didn't know what to do after she decided to become a medical social worker.
Meneses, a third-year sociology student, was at a loss for what classes to take; she knew few people in the field, and the counseling services on campus were not open during the gaps in her schedule. Read more...
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Arash Nasibi
UCLA has responded to the call for aid in the two weeks after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan. Read more...
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UCLA critical care pediatrician Kozue Shimabukuro has joined a pediatric response team and helped establish clinics to aid sick and orphaned children in Japan.
Courtesy of Kozue Shimabukuro
