About six students protested the appointment of University of California President Janet Napolitano outside of Powell Library Thursday in advance of her visit to the UCLA campus. The protest was organized by a newly formed group called the Coalition Against Napolitano, which will be holding another rally in Bruin Plaza this morning. Napolitano will be […]
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UCLA team invents microscope attachment for cell phones
Between calling, texting and updating social media, people will soon be able to use their cell phones as a microscope powerful enough to detect viruses.
Construction begins on UCLA medical teaching and learning center
Construction for a new $120 million teaching center at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine began Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony. The Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences will open in 2016 on the corner of Tiverton Drive and Le Conte Avenue. The building will help UCLA train future medical students at the […]
UCLA’s Enormous Activities Fair showcases academics, athletics
Thousands of students bustled around tables in Wilson Plaza and Royce Quad at Monday’s Enormous Activities Fair, an annual event where students showcase and recruit for their clubs or organizations. Tracy Guo, a third-year cognitive science student, pranced about in a lion head trying to attract the attention of students in the activities fair. Guo, […]
Flavors of Westwood – Fat Sal’s
Fat Sal’s Salvatore Capek used to build restaurants. Three years ago, he started building sandwiches. Capek and his business partners, originally from New York, opened Fat Sal’s Deli in an attempt to bring “fat sandwiches” to the West Coast, Capek said. “Fat sandwiches” combine a myriad of ingredients, such as meat, cheese, onion rings, mozzarella […]
Freshman seminar aims to teach proper nutrition, body image
Healthy eating for Eve Lahijani means having a cookie every now and then. Lahijani, a nutrition health educator at the Bruin Resource Center is one of two people who teach the fiat lux, “Cosmo Says You’re Fat? I Ain’t Down with That: Nutrition and Body Image.” The seminar, which is the only Fiat Lux being […]
Fiat Lux explains psychopathy, evolution relationship
Delving into the mind of a psychopath and contemplating the evolution of the human psyche are both items on the syllabus for a new Fiat Lux seminar available this fall. Joseph Manson, an anthropology professor, is leading the seminar titled “Psychopathy and Human Nature” in which students will explore psychopathy from an evolutionary perspective. “Psychopathy […]