Brian Shedd changed out of a T-shirt and jeans into business casual clothes to sneak into entrepreneurship events when he was an engineering graduate student in 2006. At the time, Shedd was interested in entrepreneurship, but couldn’t find the resources to learn more about it. “I got on (the Entrepreneurship Association’s) mailing list, found out […]
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UCLA ranked No. 8 globally, No. 2 public university in the US
UCLA was ranked the eighth-best university in the world and the second-best public university in the United States in a global rankings report released by U.S. News & World Report Tuesday. The university remained in the same spot it held last year in the inaugural Best Global Universities report. The report ranked 750 universities from […]
XPRIZE and UCLA partner on global problem-solving initiative
UCLA administrators will launch a new initiative early next week that aims to encourage members of the campus community to develop new technologies that can alleviate global problems. The university is collaborating with XPRIZE, an organization that hosts competitions in science, technology and education, to create FuturizeX. The initiative will prompt students to identify major […]
ACM-W aims to provide community for women in technology
Ruthie Johnson was invited to her first hackathon when she was a first year at UCLA, but the thought of a huge room filled with computers that displayed infinite lines of code initially kept her from attending. Johnson, a third-year mathematics of computation student, said the idea of going to the event by herself scared […]
UCLA scientists determine method to find 3-D positions of atoms
Atoms pictured in textbooks depict estimations of their average position in materials, but are not entirely accurate. UCLA scientists discovered a way to precisely determine their location in materials and accurately depict them in 3-D models that shows gaps in groups of atoms. In a study published on Monday in Nature Materials, researchers used a […]
UCLA researchers unveil new way to measure arterial stiffness in brain
UCLA researchers published a study Monday that validated a noninvasive way to measure neurological arterial stiffness, which can allow doctors to better detect the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other diseases. The new magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, technique can allow doctors to earlier detect risks of health problems such as diabetes and hypertension […]
UCLA student found dead after Roebling structure fire
The post was updated on Sept. 25 at 12:10 a.m. A UCLA student was found dead Monday morning after a fire in her Roebling Avenue apartment. Police responded to a call about 7 a.m. to a first-floor apartment at 10954 Roebling Ave. The unit belonged to several members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. LAPD spokesman […]