Five students received an $18,000 grant in early May to install a storm water capture system on the UCLA campus. Students on UCLA’s Sustainability Action Research’s Resilience Team plan to build a 200,000-gallon capture system that could save 1.22 million gallons of water per year, said Austin Park, a team leader and third-year civil and […]
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Mathematics department’s Will Conley receives My Last Lecture Award
Throughout the school year, Will Conley spends many nights at UCLA, coaching students in his review sessions and greeting them not only with firm handshakes and polite hellos, but also hugs, requests for selfies and laughs. Conley, an assistant adjunct professor of mathematics, won the My Last Lecture Award on Tuesday. The award, which is […]
Student aims high with medical marijuana delivery business
Medical marijuana was the only drug that improved Christian Kramme’s stomach pain after spending two years in and out of hospitals. Kramme, a second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, believed he had pancreatic cancer when he began experiencing severe stomach pain and a lack of appetite in 2012. His doctor recommended he use medical […]
UCLA’s X1 Robotics seeks to engage students in hands-on projects
The second floor of Boelter Hall is often heard before it’s seen. Filled with sounds of metal striking metal, the open workspace is cluttered with wires, rods and circuit boards, serving as the home base for multiple engineering and computer science groups – and now, X1 Robotics. X1 Robotics is a student-run robotics club founded […]
Volunteers seek to improve patient safety at UCLA medical centers
During a typical volunteer shift at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Melinda Ng patrols the clinic floors to ensure nurses, physicians and surgeons wash their hands with soap for at least 15 seconds before rinsing. Ng, a fourth-year biochemistry student, is a leader of Measuring to Achieve Patient Safety, or MAPS, a student organization that […]
Police find no threat in suspicious package outside school of medicine
Police determined the suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon was not a threat. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. Monday. The Los Angeles Police Department investigated the package and determined at 6:30 p.m. […]
Police close part of Westwood Plaza to investigate suspicious package
Police are investigating a suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. UCPD arrived at the scene and contacted the Los Angeles Police Department to investigate the package. Westwood […]