This post was updated Aug. 8 at 4:51 p.m. Playing music with friends at sunset on a Malibu mountaintop can be described in many ways. For Caley Versfelt, the best word to use is “funtastic.” “It’s a word that I made up that’s fantastic and fun together,” Versfelt said. She used it when talking about […]
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Vigil at UCLA calls attention to inhumane conditions at detention centers
Lisa Gantz spent a month during her medical training working at a legal clinic along the Texas-Mexico border, and visited several detention centers in the area. She said she is still haunted by what she saw. “One of the ones that I visited was basically an old Walmart where they had ripped out all of […]
High number of sleep deprivation cases and complications go underreported
This post was updated July 15 at 10:18 a.m. After spending most of the previous night writing an essay, Kristen Ventura found herself struggling to stay awake during her 9:30 a.m. class. “It was really hard to focus on what the professor was saying,” said Ventura, a rising fourth-year communication student. “It was almost as […]
Former UCLA cardiologist and professor remembered for contributions to community
Glenn Langer, a former director of cardiovascular research at UCLA who helped mentor more than 600 disadvantaged Los Angeles public school students, died June 19 at 91 years old. His colleagues from UCLA cardiology and from the college-readiness organization he founded remember him as a heart scientist with a big heart. “One of my fondest […]
Animal-assisted therapy group supports students, UCLA Health patients and staff
Erin Rice once watched her therapy dog make a 6-year-old boy open his eyes, look at his mother and begin communicating after a surgery that removed one hemisphere of his brain. “’This warm, fuzzy thing in his bed, this is what’s going to help him create those connections in his remaining hemisphere,’” Rice said a […]
UCLA student club qualifies as 1 of 9 teams in international drone competition
A student group will be competing in a drone race this fall for a chance to win over $1 million. Formula Drone at UCLA is a club that partakes in “anything and everything” to do with drones, said Gerald Ko, the president of Formula Drone and a rising third-year computer engineering student. Drones are unmanned […]
Protesters gather in LA in response to recent acts committed by Sudanese government
More than 100 people gathered in Sawtelle and Century City on Thursday to protest the military government of Sudan for violently repressing Sudan’s civilian revolution. Members of the Los Angeles Sudanese community held a demonstration in front of the consulates general of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to denounce their involvement in the […]