Student Affairs

The top teams will share a $50,000 prize and receive ongoing guidance from UCLA's Institute for Technology Advancement, a startup incubator.

In the midst of a raging national debate on how Americans use marijuana, a team of student researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is collecting data that could help separate marijuana fact from fiction.

Spring Sing's relocation to Pauley Pavilion from the Los Angeles Tennis Center increases audience capacity by almost 20 percent and production capabilities by far more. "We’ve sold more tickets so far than the Alumni Association has ever sold," says executive director Turner Pope.

Led by two students finishing in the top 20, the team earns UCLA's best finish in the Putnam Competition since 1968.

Mick Jagger has been lamenting for 47 years that he "can't get no satisfaction." On a star-studded Friday night, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band got plenty from 19,000 rabid Rolling Stones fans on hand for the opening night of the Stones' "50 & Counting" tour at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles.

"An event like this shows how involved UCLA is with things that span beyond this campus," said a student participaing in the activities, which included a campus walk and blood drive.

"I thought undergraduates who never served should have some idea what it's like so they can think about veterans' issues in a more nuanced way," psychology major Andrew Nicholls says.

Students from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health helped organize the event, which runs from April 5 to 7.