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.