Author Archives: Sophie Rane

Working for health care groups and independent businesses established in developing countries, a number of UCLA student groups will lend their time this summer to volunteer abroad.

To make the prospect of leaving school and entering the “real world” less daunting for graduating seniors, the UCLA Fund’s Senior Class Giving Committee has launched a new program called Career Conversations.

Dr. Fred Notehelfer, the driving force behind the establishment of UCLA’s Center for Japanese Studies, will be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government in a Los Angeles ceremony today.

Six UCLA faculty will soon join George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and other noted thinkers and policy makers as fellows in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Campus Retention Committee provides free services including peer counseling, one-on-one mentoring, internship classes and writing tutorials in order to increase graduation rates among minority students.

A conference hosted by UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations will examine the issue of international humanitarian intervention today.

While many students go to Sunset Canyon Recreation Center to play Frisbee, swim or work on their tans, a small group of ecologically minded students spend their time working in an organic vegetable garden.