Skip Garibaldi catches lottery scammers with mathematics

From the comfort of his desk in the UCLA mathematics department, Skip Garibaldi uses his analytical expertise to help find lottery scammers across the country. Garibaldi, the associate director of the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, uses probability and statistics to help investigators catch people who try to scam the lottery system. He […]

Alex Liu & Eric Jung take best overall entry at 2014 Spring Sing

This post was updated on May 18 at 3 p.m. United by the traditional 8-clap, Friday night’s Spring Sing 2014 audience was in for a night of music, laughter and wild applause inside Pauley Pavilion. Spring Sing 2014 featured a variety of acts from soloists and bands to a cappella groups and musical theater performances. […]

Centennial Campaign seeks to raise $4.2 billion for UCLA

Dots of light danced across the facade of Royce Hall on Thursday night, slowly combining to form images of UCLA’s iconic campus locations and figures. “It all began with an idea,” a voice boomed to a crowd of donors, administrators and students gathered in Royce Quad. Images of accomplished members of the UCLA community flashed […]

UCLA Racing | Baja SAE team gears up for Kansas competition

Circled around a neon spray-painted race car, several students begin to take the pieces apart, ripping parts off the frame and fiddling with the engine. The Miami Vice-inspired race car sports a faded pink, purple and blue paint job, along with a hula dancing doll on its dashboard. The sides of the car are marked […]

Sixth Sikh Awareness Day educates students about culture

Traditional Punjabi music, resonant with the sounds of Northern India, filled Bruin Plaza during the Sikh Student Association’s sixth annual Sikh Awareness Day on Tuesday. The fifth largest religion in the world, Sikhism emerged in Northern India more than 500 years ago. Most Sikhs are from Punjab, a region in northern India. “It is a […]

UCLA Hiking Club explores SoCal one mountain at a time

Dried-up riverbeds and withered flora littered the first few miles of the Fish Canyon Narrows hiking path. As a few dozen members of the The Hiking Club at UCLA navigated the trail and entered the shadier regions of the mountain, the group chanced upon small pools of clear mountain water. While a few members of […]