Bingen Cortazar takes a leaf, slides it into a small plastic box and holds it in front of his face. He looks at it a moment, then presses a button on the side of the red eyeglass frame-turned-computer. With a quick photograph, the graduate student in electrical engineering determined the chlorophyll level and health of […]
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UCLA Health officials hold press conference on superbug outbreak
UCLA officials have known since late January about the link between a “superbug” outbreak and two patient deaths at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, officials said at a press conference outside the hospital Thursday. Patients who underwent procedures using devices called duodenoscopes were found to have symptoms of a superbug infection in mid-December. But […]
Hip Hop Congress fashion show to feature designers from LA, Bay Area
In 2013, rapper Nipsey Hussle released a mixtape named after the neighborhood in Los Angeles where he grew up: “Crenshaw.” Nipsey Hussle and other hip-hop artists, such as Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg, who are from Los Angeles, and E-40, who is from the Bay Area, all show appreciation for their roots in their music. […]
Amended Election Code enforces spending caps, disclosure of funding sources
The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday to set spending caps for candidates, recognize the existence of slates and mandate the disclosure of campaign funding sources in the spring election.
Friends, family celebrate life of Sam Oliver at memorial service
Friends and family gathered at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center picnic area Sunday to celebrate the life and spirit of Sam Burton Oliver, a fourth-year economics student who died from an apparent suicide Dec. 12 in his Westwood apartment. The memorial service started with a short speech by Brian Pritchard, who was Oliver’s mentor and […]
Right swipe on Tinder proves lucky for Bruin
Among the explicit and cheesy pickup lines Shannon Leung saw on the mobile dating app Tinder, one stood out. She said she felt she had to respond. Leung, a fourth-year biology student who downloaded Tinder initially as a joke after pressure from her friends, met her boyfriend on the app via the pickup line “Zero […]
Manager Raymond Ajoc strings men’s tennis team together
For six years, Raymond Ajoc lived about 100 steps away from a tennis court. But, for the six years before high school, he had never used it. It was his freshman year of high school and he had recently seen Rafael Nadal win the French Open with a gritty playing style that defied Ajoc’s preconceived […]