UCLA students will participate in the final round of a campuswide competition Thursday in which graduate students have three minutes to describe their research in layman’s terms to a panel of judges. In the University of California’s Grad Slam, an inaugural systemwide competition, graduate students must describe their research and why their studies are important […]
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Bruin Day allows prospective freshmen to explore cultural interests
During her junior-year AP U.S. History class, Heather Thompson discovered a passion for equality through studying marginalized groups, which led her to explore UCLA clubs promoting social activism at Bruin Day. “I want to promote racial equality,” said Thompson, a senior at the Impact Academy of Arts and Technology in Hayward. “I like it here […]
DiaBeaters at UCLA to host diabetes awareness event
The club DiaBeaters at UCLA will be hosting educational and interactive activities about diabetes Thursday in Bruin Plaza for the second annual Diabetes Day. This year, DiaBeaters has planned a larger event, receiving financial help from both the UCLA community and local businesses in Westwood, including Bristol Farms, Whole Foods and Coffee Bean, among others, […]
UCLA students unable to recognize and reproduce the Apple logo
UCLA psychologists found that out of 85 UCLA students, only one could correctly reproduce the Apple logo when asked to draw it. Less than half of these students could identify the logo when shown it, leading the psychologists to conclude that our brains have led us to not remember specific details. Researchers found that it […]
The Bruin Experiment fosters passion for science at underserved schools
Twelve-year-old William Trimble listed off coding languages that he learned himself as other students tested their experiments around the classroom. Some were rubbing balloons on their heads to test for electricity and others were building solar ovens to make s’mores. “And now I want to learn how to code in Python,” Trimble said with a […]
UCLA study finds link between Down syndrome and premature aging
UCLA researchers recently conducted a study showing that Down syndrome can accelerate aging throughout the body. Using an epigenetic clock that tracks chemical reactions to measure the ages of different tissues in the body, the researchers found that the biological ages of the brain tissue and blood tissue in people with Down syndrome are much […]
UCLA-led Dawn mission to explore possibility of water on asteriod
The spacecraft Dawn is finally reaching the end of its four-year journey toward the dwarf planet Ceres as part of a NASA project led by UCLA researchers. After passing through the last of the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, the spacecraft will capture high-resolution images to investigate how the solar system formed and how […]