Author Archives: Alexa Vaughn

In a speech today, UC Regents’ lecturer Nicholas Negroponte plans to focus on how to bridge digital and educational divides in developing countries through his One Laptop Per Child project. The presentation, “Eliminating Poverty by Learning Learning,” focuses on One Laptop Per Child, a program which aims to change education for over 5 million children […]

By this time next year, a new 4.25-acre complex including 350 luxury apartments, 50,000 square feet for retail and the biggest parking structure in Westwood Village is scheduled to be in business. Plans for the multipurpose complex, called Palazzo Westwood Village, were introduced by Casden Properties in 2004 amid concerns from some local residents. Some […]

After a year of criticism regarding a lack of diversity in UCLA admissions, university officials said they were satisfied to see an increase in minority and transfer applicants in statistics released Wednesday. The UCLA application pool for fall 2007, which shows increases in transfer and minority applicants, made UCLA the most applied to school in […]

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to appeal a ruling that rejected his attempts to garner more control over part of Los Angeles Unified School District to the state Supreme Court, his office announced Monday. In September 2006, the state legislature approved a measure that would have given Villaraigosa control over three LAUSD high schools, […]

After painting an Ugandan child’s face on a canvas in bright colors, Lydia Kim attempted to destroy the cloth with razor blade scratches and sandpaper to better represent the suppression of the child’s dreams. But to her surprise, Kim, a second-year English student, said the distressed painting became more beautiful. To her it became a […]

New statistics showing low student transfer rates from California community colleges, especially among minorities, reveal what some see as another roadblock to increasing diversity in higher education. Out of the students who initially planned on transferring to a four-year university, only 26 percent did, and within certain ethnic groups the number was lower, according to […]

Doctors using robotic surgery to operate on patients in other countries. Specialists giving crucial advice to doctors with a stroke victim hundreds of miles away. Experts in Los Angeles diagnosing patients in rural areas without having to leave home. These are among the visions physicians at the UCLA School of Medicine have for a new […]