A link between genetics and brain size has been established by a team led by neurology researchers at UCLA, working as part of an international collaborative research project, showing that single genetic changes play a role in determining brain volume and IQ. Read more...
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April 26, 1:17 am
UCLA researchers discover single genetic change linked to IQ and brain size
Campus, News, Student Government
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April 25, 1:49 am
USAC Recap – April 24
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA's undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
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April 25, 1:19 am
Student concern over UC’s coal investments clouds the university’s fiscal gains
A group of California students is working to discourage public universities from investing in coal, citing negative social and environmental effects. Read more...
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April 25, 1:17 am
Not by the book: Guerilla Science cofounder Mark Rosin teaches concepts in unexpected ways at music festivals
During his day job as a postdoctoral researcher in UCLA's Department of Mathematics, Mark Rosin sits in his sparsely furnished office, getting up to jot down algorithms on his chalkboard and meeting with faculty, staff and graduate students. Read more...
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Mark Rosin, a researcher in the UCLA Department of Mathematics, cofounded Guerilla Science, which seeks to introduce science in unexpected places. The organization tries to prove that science is a part of everyday life and that people should think about and question it.
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April 25, 1:13 am
Awareness Week recalls, educates about different genocides
Sacks of skulls damaged by machetes lined the red-bricked wall of a church. Read more...
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Professor Paul Von Blum spoke on a panel discussing perspectives on genocides on Monday. Von Blum is the son of a Holocaust survivor.
Campus, News
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April 25, 1:12 am
Former political science lecturer Phil Gussin selected for third annual “˜My Last Lecture’ Award
Student instrumental in helping Professor Phil Gussin win My Last Lecture Award
Apr. 25, 2012 – Fourth-year political science student Lorden Fok and political science Professor Phil Gussin (pictured) have known each other for four years now. As part of the mentorship program in the Regents Scholar Society, Fok and Gussin were matched together. When Gussin announced that he would be leaving UCLA for College of the Canyons, Fok was moved to encourage others to vote for Gussin in the My Last Lecture Award.
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"Student instrumental in helping Professor Phil Gussin win My Last Lecture Award"Told he had been elected as this year's speaker for the "My Last Lecture" event, Phil Gussin, standing on the stage of his political science class, had to swallow down tears. Read more...
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Phil Gussin was chosen as the speaker for the third annual “My Last Lecture” event. Gussin received more than 2,000 nominations.
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April 25, 1:01 am
UC Divestments
The University of California has pulled its investments from controversial areas before, most prominently tobacco (in 2001) and companies in Sudan (in 2006). Read more...