Another night of competitive programming began in Boelter Hall 3760, and soon a familiar ID appeared at the top of the leaderboard on the screen. It was MatRush.

From apartments near UCLA and the sidewalks in Westwood, students can see a large industrial building that emits high volumes of vapor from its roof. Inside the facility, the UCLA cogeneration plant, a source of clean, renewable energy, has been supplying low-cost electricity and thermal energy to the campus since 1994.

Aspiring student investors embarked on their first venture into the unpredictable realm of stocks as they made their first stock transaction earlier this month.
Bruin Value Investing, a student investment group with 17 members, engages in stock investment and trade to educate its members about business investment literacy.

The way votes are collected in the undergraduate student government election this week may play a significant role in determining the winning candidates.
Starting Tuesday morning, students will cast their votes for some Undergraduate Students Association Council candidates using ranked-choice voting, where they rank candidates – from first choice to last choice – in their order of preference.

Members of the L.A. community gathered at Fowler Museum Friday to brainstorm ways to improve the future of the city.
About 150 people attended the #UCLA2050 Symposium, which aimed to engage students, faculty and community leaders in sharing their visions for Los Angeles in the year 2050.

Cutting off their hair was another way for many students at Saturday’s Relay For Life event to help patients fighting cancer.
The design team from Paul Mitchell The School Sherman Oaks provided $10 haircuts for donation to the American Cancer Society, a nonprofit organization that aims to eliminate cancer.

Students who resent searching for empty seats in libraries and dining halls may not need to bother anymore.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative 2 office began promoting an iPhone app called Bear Essentials last week that monitors how crowded every UCLA library and dining hall is throughout the day.

Aspiring web producers and app developers exclaimed as they held their smartphones up to capture the impressive scene of having more than a thousand hackers gathered in one space to spend the next 36 hours innovating and developing new ideas together.

The vibratos of the strings sang the melancholy tune of “Arirang,” a Korean folksong that mourns a long-gone companion.

More than 1,800 people filled Royce Hall Thursday night for this year’s Korean Culture Night, which opened the show with the words “People of North Korea live, laugh and struggle, just like me and you.”
The show discussed the conditions in North Korea, which lead some citizens to abandon their homeland.

A mini robot car may be zipping past you Wednesday, while walking through the Court of Sciences on the way to class.
Racing robot cars will be part of this year’s Engineers’ Week, or E-Week.