Friday, July 3

Chemistry Professor Robin Garrell appointed vice provost for graduate education and dean of graduate division

The professor of chemistry works closely with graduate students in her research lab and via a pre-professional training program she helped to develop on campus. Read more...

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Chemistry Professor Robin Garrell (left) poses with a group of graduate students. Garrell will become the new dean of the graduate division on July 1.

courtesy of ROBIN GARRELL


Bringing social issues to light during awareness week

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.


Fusing art and statistics

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.





App from UCLA team prevails in Facebook’s first SoCal Camp Hackathon

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)



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