Being aware of the issues is only the first step toward social change. To that end, the Undergraduate Student Association Council's Community Service Commission is holding Issues Awareness Week, a three-day event designed to not only promote understanding of social issues that impact the greater L.A. Read more...

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Fourth-year biochemistry student Jonathan Ditty is one of the founders of the Happy Feet Clinic, a clinic that provides foot care for the homeless. His organization is a part of the Community Service Commission’s Issues Awareness Week.

Mark Hansen was supposed to retire at Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of AT&T. But he soon became so involved with statistics research that he went on to teach the subject at UCLA. Read more...

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UCLA statistics Professor Mark Hansen teamed up with The New York Times to produce a time-based representation of how NYT content is shared on Twitter.

By 6 p.m., a line of eager fans who had snaked around Young Hall were attempting to push themselves into the already-packed room, lining the aisles and crowding all of the doorways. Read more...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political activist Noam Chomsky speaks at Young Hall Saturday on political unrest in the Middle East.

Three UCLA professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday "“ one of the highest honors an American scientist can receive. Read more...

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Mark Harrison

At Facebook's first SoCal Camp Hackathon competition this weekend, a team of UCLA computer science students spent 24 hours building an application that involves video conferencing and drawing on a shared canvas. Read more...

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Student participants in the Facebook SoCal Camp Hackathon work to develop apps within a 24-hour time limit. The competition took place in De Neve Plaza.
(Courtesy of Jenae Replogle)