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Student engineers help Guatemalan villagers tap into rainwater

Every year when Guatemala’s six-month-long rainy season ends around November and the sun comes out, tourists flock to picturesque sites like Guatemala City and Antigua to frolic under cloudless blue skies.   For many Guatemalans,...

UCLA, Dorsey High School celebrate their partnership

UCLA's extensive partnership with Dorsey High School, where students currently participate in seven UCLA community programs, was celebrated Tuesday by Dorsey administrators, teachers and students and a group of UCLA...

New breed of physician on front line of hospital care

It was a typical day for Dr. Jason Napolitano. He arrived at 7 a.m. at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and checked the overnight results of his patients' X-rays, blood work and other lab tests. He reviewed their vital signs, medications and...

Basketball art for sale

To help celebrate the 75th anniversary of March Madness, UCLA unveiled 11 pieces of original art — each one representing one of its NCAA men’s basketball championships — at Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game...

Condoleezza Rice: Democracy the best antidote to terrorism

Former secretary of state and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice offered a spirited defense of democracy as the best and most stable system of government at the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture of the Burkle Center for International...

Beth Henley's plays at the Hammer

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Beth Henley will be joined by actors Ed Harris, Diane Keaton, Amy Madigan and Belita Moreno on March 12 at 7:30 p.m. to read excerpts from her plays at the Hammer Museum's next program in the "Some...

Archive rekindles interest inonce-marginalized filmmaker

Shirley Clarke was no ordinary documentary filmmaker. One of the first women to break the male lock on independent filmmaking in the ’50s and ’60s, Clarke grew up in New York, a child of wealthy parents who provided her with a...

Meet the vendors and suppliers

Plan on attending the annual Alliance Suppliers and BruinBuy Trade Show, where more than 75 of UCLA's recommended suppliers will exhibit their latest products and technologies and answer questions about their goods and services. The trade show will...

Down with doughnuts and other unhealthy habits

As much as social scientists have learned about what drives people’s decision-making, there is still no silver bullet for changing people’s behavior — especially when it comes to making better health...

Film costume designers celebrate role in cinematic storytelling

Jacqueline Durran Jacqueline Durran, last night's winner of an Oscar for her costume designs for "Anna Karenina," appeared on a thought-provoking panel of leading costume designers brought together on campus Friday by UCLA's School of Theater,...

Staff News -- Feb. 22, 2013

In Memoriam: Geneva Phillips, managing editor of the California Dryden Project Jeanette Gilkison (from left), English department’s office supervisor; the late Vinton Dearing, managing editor for the California Dryden Project; and Geneva...

So you want to be an Internet star

If you ever wanted to find fame on the Internet, then here's your chance to hear from six YouTube stars and entertainment journalists who will be on a panel to discuss just how it's done. USAC's Campus Events Commission is presenting a music...

Diving deep: Inside UCLA’s pools

Facilities Management mechanics suit up in scuba gear to clean each of UCLA’s pools twice a week and they find the weirdest things while they’re underwater.
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