The Peace Corps is anticipating more than 22,000 applications for the 2015 fiscal year, an increase of at least 26 percent from last year, said an official who visited the UCLA Thursday. The organization sends many college graduates from the U.S. to different countries for service missions. Nearly 220,000 people in the U.S. have served […]
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Kaner Laboratory researchers develop battery-like supercapacitor
Researchers with the California NanoSystems Institute recently developed a new battery-like supercapacitor, a device that stores charge, which may rival conventional energy storage technology. The Kaner Laboratory, where the capacitor was created, published a paper on the technology in early March and presented it Saturday at the Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and […]
UCLA students appeal parking tickets issued in Westwood
Several UCLA students are appealing parking tickets after university police increased its distribution of citations for cars left in spaces between the street and sidewalk in Westwood. UCPD started giving out more tickets for cars parked on the borders of walkways after it received complaints from the property managers of several UCLA-owned buildings, said UCPD […]
UCLA lab develops necklace device that monitors nutrition
Through a necklace device that tracks the amount of food and drink a person consumes, a UCLA lab is trying to create technology that would improve preventive medicine. Majid Sarrafzadeh, a computer science professor, runs a wireless health lab at UCLA that works with doctors to find and solve health problems through engineering and computer […]
Chinese-American Students and Scholars Seminar holds inaugural event
A new seminar series at UCLA aims to spark discussions among Chinese students and connect them to academic and career advice from researchers. The program, UCLA Chinese-American Students and Scholars Seminar, originated from the Chinese Biomedical Peer Seminar, a program founded in 2011 and aimed to promote scientific collaboration among Chinese graduate students. The inaugural […]
Student groups preserve their history with UCLA’s new archive project
Several student groups are starting to document their history in public UCLA library archives, which anyone can contribute to or view. The archives are being created with the help of UCLA’s official archivist Heather Briston, who took up her position in June 2014 and works at the Charles E. Young Research Library. The archives, which […]
Napolitano discusses protests, tuition, student relationships
University of California President Janet Napolitano said she thought the protest that accompanied the March UC Board of Regents meeting was over the top. “Public comment for some has become an opportunity to not be communicating with the regents,” she said in an Editorial Board interview with The Bruin Thursday. “Maybe the point is not […]