Just outside Hanray Wu’s family home, trucks carried plastic water bottles away from her family’s small factory in Mandalay, a city located in central Myanmar.
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Student-run exhibits display history of science in university libraries
Using a modern microfilm viewer, Camilla Harris examined notes from interviews with victims of atomic bomb radiation during World War II, stored in the university library’s special collections.
C.U.R.E. club at UCLA helps students secure research lab positions
Minasian has been volunteering in a lab since winter quarter of last year, doing what she calls “hands-on” work with the lab’s researchers, preserving cell cultures and analyzing the effects of knocking out autism-related genes on cells.
Linguistics graduate student strives to preserve fading languages through her work at UCLA
Spoken by just 60,000 people, Tommo So is one of hundreds of understudied and undocumented languages in the world.
Compost crew: Waste Watchers turn trash into fertilizer by properly disposing organic waste
Hauling trash-bags full of coffee grounds and kitchen scraps, two three-wheeled rickshaw bicycles raced past campus foot traffic.
Students lobby professors to vote for “˜Community and Conflict in the Modern World’ GE requirement
Students are spearheading an outreach effort to sway faculty opinion in a vote over a proposed “diversity-related” general education requirement.
Startup UCLA launches first-ever summer accelerator program, receiving strong student response
A program that launched last fall to connect student entrepreneurs with mentors in the technology startup industry is introducing a summer accelerator that has attracted the interest of hundreds of UCLA students.