All posts tagged "ucla"

  • Members of UCLA 's MHEP introduce a new mentoring project for Korean American high school students Wednesday.
    UCLA’s MHEP members to offer mentoring program for high school students

    Beginning Nov. 15 at Korean American Family Services Korean high school students in Los Angeles will soon find a group of mentors waiting for them in Koreatown. Ten Korean American students in UCLA’s Mentorship & Health Education Program...

    • Posted October 30, 2014
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  • (AP)
    UCLA tops USC in graduating athletes

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Eighty-seven percent of the UCLA athletes who entered the university between 2004 and 2007 graduated within six years of their enrollments, compared to 80 percent who entered cross-town rival USC during the same period, according to...

    • Posted October 29, 2014
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  • UCLA
    UC to consider limiting out-of-state enrollment

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Five years ago, the University of California system made a concerted effort to boost revenue through recruiting more out-of-state students, which resulted in approximately $400 million just last year. Despite...

    • Posted October 24, 2014
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  • A medical team from Seoul National University Bundang Hospital’s Spine Center used the robotic system "Renaissance" in performing vertebrae operations, Wednesday. (Courtesy of Digital Times)
    UCLA & UCI receive $8 million grant for stem cell research

    IRVINE (CNS) – UC Irvine and UCLA researchers will form a stem cell clinic, thanks to an $8 million state grant awarded today. The five-year grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine will be used to...

    • Posted October 23, 2014
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  • A worker begins the task of cleaning up at least an inch of water covering the playing floor at Pauley Pavilion, home of UCLA basketball, after a broken 30-inch water main under nearby Sunset Boulevard caused flooding that inundated several areas of the UCLA campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
    UCLA flood: Estimate doubles to 20 million gallons of water

    (CNS) – Utility crews struggled today to completely stop the flow of leaking water near a 30-inch riveted-steel pipe that ruptured north of the UCLA campus, sending 20 millions of gallons cascading onto the campus, and Department of Water and...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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  • People walk down a stairway leading to a parking structure across from Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus after flooding from a broken 30-inch water main under nearby Sunset Boulevard inundated a large area of the campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. The 30-inch (75-centimeter) 93-year-old pipe that broke made a raging river of the street and sent millions of gallons (liters) of water across the school's athletic facilities, including the famed floor of Pauley Pavilion, the neighboring Wooden Center and the Los Angeles Tennis Center, and a pair of parking structures that took the brunt of the damage. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
    Water main break floods UCLA campus, 10 million gallons of water lost

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A 93-year-old, 30-inch-diameter water main ruptured north of UCLA today, blasting a geyser of water through Sunset Boulevard and sending an estimated 8 million to 10 million gallons cascading down the street and inundating a number...

    • Posted July 29, 2014
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  • (Park Sang-hyuk)
    Former S. Korean Prime Minister hopes for healing in wake of ferry tragedy

    At the Korea Times sponsored event held in UCLA, Chung Un-chan says: “We have to try to go back to the normal as soon as possible.” (CNS) -  A former South Korean prime minister visiting UCLA said Tuesday he is hopeful...

    • Posted April 22, 2014
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