The morning after Wednesday’s campus shooting, UCLA alumnus Justin Renge drove to campus with a bag of 50 envelopes. Each envelop contained anonymous notes and money, which he distributed to random locations across the campus. Renge, who graduated from UCLA in spring 2015, said he was off campus at a local gym when he saw […]
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Professor William Klug remembered for service to students, innovative work
William “Bill” Klug introduced himself in the first lecture of his programming class with a family photo of himself, his wife and two young children. Klug wanted students to understand what he was like both in and out of work, said Amirhossein Kaboodrangidaem, a graduate student in bioengineering and Klug’s former student. Klug, who was […]
Vigils help UCLA community commemorate lives lost to gun violence
The plain night sky above Bruin Plaza was lit by hundreds of candlelights Thursday. Students held the candles in silence, mourning professor William Klug, who was killed in a murder-suicide Wednesday. The event was also held a day after National Gun Violence Awareness Day for victims of gun violence. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering […]
Campus shooter identified as former UCLA doctoral student
A former doctoral student has been identified as the man who killed a UCLA professor on campus Wednesday. Mainak Sarkar, a 38-year-old man who graduated from UCLA in 2013, drove from his home in Minnesota to Los Angeles to kill his former research adviser William Klug, police said. Sarkar killed Klug, who was an associate […]
Child nutrition researcher, Professor Emeritus Osman Galal dies at 85
Osman Galal, a professor emeritus in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, died of heart failure May 23 while traveling on an airplane to Los Angeles from Cairo. He was 85. Khalid Galal, Osman Galal’s son, said his father was enthusiastic about research in childhood nutrition and spent his life trying to make sure children from […]
Students improve Wikipedia’s science, build skills and benefit all
In Heather Tienson’s biochemistry advanced honors seminar, students don’t cite Wikipedia articles for their research assignments: they rewrite them. Tienson’s Chemistry 189 students this quarter edited scientific Wikipedia articles as part the Year of Science, a program launched by the Wiki Education Foundation to expand reliable science content on Wikipedia. Multiple teachers at UCLA have […]
Campus lockdown disrupts final exams, class presentations
A student stood up in class Wednesday morning to protest the professor who continued to lecture during the campus shooting. “I don’t think you’re taking this seriously,” the student said, according to a classmate. “People’s lives are in danger and we’re just sitting here in class.” The classmate, second-year physiological science student Erika Monasch, said […]