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UPDATED: UCLA students studying abroad in Egypt have been evacuated

Nineteen University of California Students, including UCLA students studying abroad in Egypt, were evacuated from the African country earlier today, according to a statement from the University of California Office of the President.

Evacuation efforts began after political protests against the Egyptian government began to escalate in violence.

The evacuation efforts also included parents, UC faculty and an 11-member archeological team from UCLA working on a dig 200 miles south of Cairo, according to the statement.

Gregory Areshian, assistant director of the Cotsen Institute of Archeology at UCLA, which sends a bulk of the students who study in Egypt through UCLA, ensured that all of the UCLA students studying abroad under university programs will be returning home.

All students are safe and accounted for and have been taken to Barcelona, Spain.

The students are expected to return to California later this week, according to university officials.

UCLA’s LArge Plasma Device helps understand universe, create innovative technology through experimentation with artificial plasma

Somewhere in the midst of the Westwood underground lies a 19 meter-long machine.

The LArge Plasma Device, as it is officially called, produces plasma in artificial form and takes high-speed photos of the material, which is so volatile that it splits apart in a millionth of a second.

Plasma is the most common state of matter in the universe, found in stars and the space between them.