In response to concerns from the administration, Undergraduate Students Association Council Facilities Commissioner PC Zai has proposed moving the starting location of the Undie Run to the Strathmore Drive tunnel. The Undie Run, which currently starts at the northern intersection of Gayley and Landfair avenues, is a UCLA tradition in which students show up in […]
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Black LGBT issues covered
UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Resource Center was filled with a host of emotions Thursday night during a presentation on black LGBT history by UCLA alumna Tara Lake, who now works with the organization Sisters of Sakia. Sisters of Sakia is an organization with the goal of empowering young black women who identify […]
Speakers to swap research results
Jerome Zack, associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institue, has spent the last few years researching HIV/AIDS and how it might be treated through the use of embryonic stem cell therapy. Zack said he plans to share his research results with faculty specializing in stem cell research at universities across North America during a developmental […]
Speakers debate donation policies
UCLA faculty and students shouted playfully at each other Thursday while debating the issue of compensation for human tissue given for stem cell research after a lecture on the topic given by UCLA law Professor Russell Korobkin. In his lecture, which is part of a larger stem cell colloquium hosted by the UCLA Center for […]
Grant aids melanoma research
UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center received a $1 million grant to create a fellowship for melanoma research. The V Foundation-Gil Nickel Fellowship will support research projects concerning melanoma, a form of skin cancer. The fellowship was endowed by the family of Napa Valley Winery owner Gil Nickel, who died of melanoma in 2003, and the […]
New engineering facility opens
Seismic readings, pollution, terrestrial, underwater ecosystems and urban traffic and air quality may soon be precisely monitored through the use of new technology being researched at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing’s new facility. Thursday evening the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science celebrated the grand opening of its new 6,000-square-foot facility, […]
Diplomat to lend services to UCLA
During the first Gulf War, Peter Kovach was an officer in a public policy bureau working in the Middle East. In the mid 1990s he was in Jordan aiding peacekeeping efforts before and after their first elections. And last year he was serving in the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, during the earthquake that struck […]