The undergraduate student government may soon have another fund to oversee, one that would be financed through private donors instead of student fees.
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Board of Regents to help fund new medical teaching center
SAN FRANCISCO— The University of California Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a $104.7 million budget to help construct a new teaching center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Jeremy Gleick devotes one hour each day to learn something new
For an hour each day, Jeremy Gleick sets aside his biochemistry and neuroscience textbooks and picks up playing cards, juggling balls and sometimes even knives.
“(Learning something new each day) is an opportunity to get to do something I ordinarily would not be able to do,” Gleick said.
Ravi Zacharias confronts issues of tolerance
Growing up in predominantly Hindu India, Ravi Zacharias came across many instances where people would greet him, a Christian, with “Merry Christmas.” Since moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1985, Zacharias said he has noticed that people greet each other with a more inclusive phrases such as “Happy Holidays.” Zacharias hopes to explore the topic of […]
Former UCLA professor enjoyed Russian poetry, inspiring students
Vladimir Fedorovich Markov, a professor emeritus in the Slavic languages and literatures department and a Russian literature scholar, died Jan. 1 at his home in Los Angeles, after a long period of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 92. Markov’s colleagues and friends knew him as a witty man with a passion for Russian poetry, […]
Undergraduate Student Writing Center opens third location
The new location will offer sessions with Peer Learning Facilitators – students hired to work with other undergraduates in one-on-one sessions and teach them how to do more in-depth research because of the location in the library.
Global studies program review postponed
The global studies interdepartmental program will not undergo review for another year, as it works to reorganize its curriculum in light of state budget cuts in past years. The program would have started preparing for its first eight-year review this month, but requested to postpone the review. The UCLA Academic Senate approved the request Wednesday. […]