I shook awake as the tour bus pulled to a stop at a crosswalk. “Chicos, welcome to Salamanca,” Carmen, our resident director, said in her endearing Spanglish. She added that she hoped we took a nap because we needed to be awake to meet our host family for our six-week travel study program. Butterflies suddenly […]
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Engineers Without Borders implements clean water program in Guatemala
Jing Gong traveled to a rural Guatemalan village as a UCLA student for the third and last time this month, concluding a year-long student group project to improve water access in the area. Gong, current fourth-year chemical engineering student, is one of four UCLA engineering students who embarked on the trip on June 16 and […]
Robert Naples to retire as dean of students, focus on teaching at UCLA
In his almost 20 years of administrative service at UCLA, Dean of Students Robert Naples said he has worked to follow the philosophy that students learn from each other outside the classroom as much as they do inside it. “I was one of the people at the table saying, ‘Students learn from other students,’” Naples […]
Grad trades tassel for tires in cross-country bike ride
Most of his peers will be walking at the June 14 commencement ceremonies, but George Hewett plans to be far away, riding his bike through the American countryside. Instead of attending his own graduation, the fifth-year anthropology student will be in the midst of a two-month, cross-country bicycle trip raising money for five different charities. […]
UCLA unveils improvements to botanical garden entrance
The entrance to the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden, once hidden behind a wire fence and flourishing plants, is now hard to miss. Students walking to and from class can pass the smooth stone pathways and bold, engraved lettering that serve as the new entrance to the garden. On Monday, UCLA officials will hold a […]
Elegant Mind club builds practical research experience
Tim Sherry’s childhood love for building Lego sets never faded. Instead, it evolved into a passion for building high-powered microscopes in his work at UCLA’s student-run Elegant Mind club.
Bixby Center to hold symposium on military sexual assault
A symposium about military sexual assault will be held at UCLA Thursday by the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health, an organization that primarily focuses on reproductive health issues in developing countries.