Code-A-Thon Challenge pits UCLA against USC in contest to program software that would benefit individuals with disabilities

Last weekend, six teams of UCLA undergraduate programmers participated in the semi-finals of SS12, a competition where contesters worked on software to improve disabled people’s accessibility to technology.

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass to address underfunded higher education and field questions at forum

As a follow-up to the UC Board of Regents meeting last November, the undergraduate student government invited Speaker of the California State Assembly and ex-officio Regent Karen Bass to a town hall forum at UCLA to speak about the state’s underfunded higher education system.