UCLA students have an opportunity to develop their own startups and compete for $100,000 worth of prizes in a UCLA law school entrepreneurship competition. UCLA School of Law will open registration for its second Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs competition at the end of October. The competition will require teams of two to […]
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Photo: Students brainstorm for solutions for medical needs at Inventathon
Inventathon participants convened in the California NanoSystems Institute this weekend to propose solutions for medical needs. Teams of students attended the two-day hackathon hosted by the UCLA Business of Science Center to pitch and create concepts and products to solve unmet clinical needs. They worked with mentors ranging from chief executive officers of biotechnology startups […]
Graphic: Inaccurate ID renders transgender voters ineligible
Students intern in Uganda to grow a safer, cleaner environment
Students in a small Ugandan village jumped from their seats to greet Harveen Sekhon every time she entered the classroom. Sekhon, a third-year human biology and society student, taught menstrual hygiene and sanitation practices this summer at Johnson Nkosi Memorial Primary School, where some members of the community are single mothers, orphans and children living […]
Graphic: The impact of UC startups
UCLA settles lawsuit with graduate students alleging Title IX violations
UCLA settled a lawsuit Thursday that was filed by two graduate students who claimed they were sexually harassed by professor Gabriel Piterberg. According to a UCLA statement, the UC Board of Regents agreed to pay one student $350,000 and the other student $110,000. They will also provide one of the students with a dissertation year […]