After weeks of debating the issue, the Associated Students UCLA Board of Directors approved an emergency funding request for the undergraduate student government at the board’s meeting on Friday.
Author Archives: Melissa Truong
UCLA offers free laptop theft protection and tracking software
To reduce laptop thefts, UCLA now offers a free laptop protection software to students, faculty and staff.
Ricardo Legorreta, Tom Bradley International Hall architect and former UCLA professor, dies
Ricardo Legorreta, the architect of Tom Bradley International Hall and a former visiting professor at UCLA, died on Dec. 30, of liver cancer. He was 80.
A step toward a greener future
Chipkos Footwear, founded by alumna Priya Dua, sells sandals to help save rain forests.
Tracking Disease in the Congo
Rumors spread quickly when Anne Rimoin and her team arrived at a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to take blood samples from every person over the age of 1.
Some villagers believed the UCLA assistant professor in epidemiology and her team were stealing blood for white Europeans to stay young, Rimoin said.
In the jaws of research
Marisa Tellez spared two looks at her left hand minutes after it was bitten by a crocodile.
The first one was to see if her pinky finger was there.
Writers take on a novel project
In a small study room in Young Research Library, Rebecca Kon announced a “word war.”