Graduate school application season kicked off on Oct. 27 in the Ackerman Ballroom, as schools throughout the country promoted themselves to prospective students who will be filling out their applications in late fall and early winter. Schools’ intentions also included familiarizing themselves with potential applicants.
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UCLA researchers work to integrate electric vehicles into L.A. traffic
An electric vehicle workshop on Friday in Covel Commons
highlighted UCLA’s Electric Vehicle Integration research project.
The project, created by UCLA’s Smart Grid Energy Research Center, uses advanced technology developed at UCLA to manage electric vehicle energy storage and consumption.
Camp hosts charity tourney
Carole Yu discovered Camp Kesem, a complimentary summer camp for the children of cancer patients, while her husband was seeking treatment for a rare form of nonsmoker’s lung cancer at the UCLA Medical Center.
“I was thinking, “˜How will I support (my children) through this?’ We didn’t really know anyone with cancer,” Yu said.
Novel ‘Stein, Stoned’ released by UCLA lecturer
Over the weekend, Hal Ackerman was on the East Coast, traveling from bookstore to bookstore, promoting his new book,”Stein, Stoned.”
Come Monday, the UCLA lecturer was back in Rolfe Hall, teaching his eight graduate students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
“Pick a card, any card,” Ackerman said with a slight smile, spreading a deck of playing cards on the table before his students.
Career center offers class on postgraduation career options
Personality is an aspect rarely consulted when students consider which career to pursue.
Lula Fecadu, a fourth-year economics student, recently discovered after taking a personality test in a new UCLA class that level of extroversion may influence which careers she is best fit for.
“I never actually took (personality) into account,” Fecadu said.
UCLA campus a political hot spot
Former UCLA student Gabe Rose distinctly remembers March 5, 2007, when more than 1,000 students crowded shoulder-to-shoulder in Kerckhoff patio to hear Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards speak about the moral responsibility of the United States.
Construction on the Hill cut Internet on Friday
Varda Gupta let the door close behind her and immediately realized her mistake.