UCLA’s 10-week volunteer-based program aims to improve social and motor skills of children
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Student organization Climate 411 will provide forum for research and debate on climate change
Justin Ong never knew what to believe about climate change.
He had heard contradicting facts since his interest in the subject blossomed during the sixth grade, but he could find little reliable data.
New dean takes over at UCLA School of Law
Growing up in a border community of Arizona, Rachel Moran realized how farmworkers’ children lacked opportunities as non-native English speakers.
Nobel laureate and UCLA alumnus William Sharpe speaks at Theta Xi’s dinner meeting
Standing in the Hollywood Bowl in the 1950s, William Sharpe sang a war ballad with his fellow khaki-wearing Theta Xi brothers during Spring Sing.
More than 50 years later, Sharpe, a Nobel laureate and professor emeritus of finance at Stanford University, returned to UCLA on Monday night as the guest of honor at the fraternity’s weekly dinner meeting.
“It’s an experience for the undergraduates to see that a distinguished alum of Theta Xi is willing to come back to his roots,” said Joe Cottrell, president of the UCLA Theta Xi Alumni Association.
Cottrell said he invited Sharpe to visit during the past two years, and after a few scheduling conflicts, Sharpe was finally able to attend.
Former senator George McGovern speaks about mental illness at Open Mind lecture
His front door loomed before him on a chilly winter night in 1994, as former senator George McGovern walked curiously forward and noticed the outline of a police officer and a priest waiting just outside.
UCLA center helps train international medical staff
Stephen Sheridan filmed as the 14-year old Iraqi boy entered an air force hospital in Balad, Iraq with his left arm nearly severed off.
Foster student Sarah Mcwilliams-Hanson makes for herself a home, family at UCLA
Instead of schoolbooks, 12-year-old Sarah Mcwilliams-Hanson stuffed her backpack with all of her money and a change of clothes.
The decision was made: She would not endure any more of her mother’s physical abuse.