Aspiring surgeons may one day receive training over the Internet as a result of new technology recently developed by two UCLA graduate student researchers.

Amid midterms and college stress, a group of UCLA engineering students have spent almost every day of winter quarter working with Beverly Hills High School students, sometimes until the wee hours of the morning.

Holding signs that read “Justice for Janitors” and “The 1 percent is holding us all back,” more than 1,000 protesters marched from Bruin Plaza to Wilshire Boulevard Thursday afternoon.

If it weren’t for the beauticians, pop music or the smell of hair spray, it would have been business as usual at the James West Alumni Center.

Fifteen screen-lit faces in a dark room stared at a projected display of science-fiction military violence.

A van parked in Bruin Plaza allowed for quick-stop HIV testing, and student volunteers handed out free condoms as part of a World AIDS Day event on campus Wednesday.

Jackie Jones holds a flu shot injection in her hand.