Sunday, June 21


UCLA professor and his team discover ice below the surface of Mercury's poles

Earth has more of it than scientists can explain. And if it exists on nearby planets, it could mean that there are other life forms in solar systems elsewhere in the universe. Read more...

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UCLA professor of planetary science David Paige holds a model of the moon. Paige and his team have discovered ice on the moon and Mercury. Paige is now working on publishing the conclusions.





Spring Sing 2011 Company music video comes alive as Club B-Cafe makes real-life debut

Loud music, technicolor lights and hundreds of dancing students interrupted second-year economics and statistics student Jesse Hu on his way to get coffee Friday night on the Hill. Read more...

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Students dance around a DJ station set up in front of Bruin Cafe as part of the “Club B-Cafe” event Friday night after Spring Sing. The event was based on a music video created for Spring Sing 2011.


Data analysis competition Datafest combines statistics with speed

Sitting in a large room, working furiously at their laptops "”mdash; aided by an unlimited supply of caffeine and sugar "”mdash; about 80 students spent their weekend analyzing data as part of a annual competition put on by the UCLA Department of Statistics. Read more...

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Students participated in the Datafest competition, put on by the UCLA Statistics department, this weekend.