The UCLA Korean American Student Association will hold a Voter Registration Day Friday on Bruin Walk to promote civic engagement among Asian-American students. KASA will set up a booth on Bruin Walk from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to help students register to vote in the presidential election, said Steve Shin, president of the Korean […]
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UCLA students found organization to advance Alzheimer’s research
Misak Khachatryan joined the Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s when he transferred to UCLA, after seeing how his neighbor’s struggle with severe Alzheimer’s disease affected his family. “If your loved one has Alzheimer’s and they gradually develop the disease more and more, it’s like pieces of them keep falling apart,” said Khachatryan, the organization’s publicity director […]
Study finds insignificant returns on UC’s $1B hedge fund investments
The University of California’s largest employee union released a study Tuesday that showed the University has paid about $1 billion to hedge fund managers over the past 12 years for no significant increase in investment returns. The study from the employee union, AFSCME Local 3299, said the UC’s hedge funds failed to fulfill promises of […]
Alums create Indy Plush, line of toys advocating wildlife preservation
Plinio Garcia and Andrew Ruesch were inspired to create their own line of children’s toys when their son, Luke, came home from kindergarten one day with a stuffed animal he designed himself. The two UCLA alumni soon partnered with Luke’s kindergarten teacher Franceil Masi, who created stuffed animals based on her kindergrateners’ drawings and gave […]
Andean event “Yanantin” at UCLA spreads awareness about Quechua language
Students and faculty gathered at Young Research Library Tuesday night to learn about the Quechua, an indigenous group native to South America, and UCLA’s courses on the Quechua language. Professor Luz Maria De la Torre, who teaches the Quechua language classes, and her students hosted the event. Students spoke about Quechua culture in Spanish and […]
UCLA senior anticipates launch of first campus-built satellite
In 2017, Michael Anderson will watch the UCLA Mission Operations Center launch his satellite into space. Anderson, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, was the chief engineer for the Electron Losses and Fields Investigation CubeSat, or ELFIN, the first satellite built by UCLA students. The satellite, about the size of a loaf of bread, will collect […]
Teaching assistant inspires with his lifelong commitment to education
About 40 years ago, Hughlin Boyd cried on the front stoop of his family’s Brooklyn apartment because his dream of attending college seemed so out of reach. Boyd, a graduate student at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has since earned three degrees, worked in politics for 10 years and been diagnosed […]