Jing Gong traveled to a rural Guatemalan village as a UCLA student for the third and last time this month, concluding a year-long student group project to improve water access in the area.

Through caring for her father’s leukemia, Florence Roussotte is helping match numerous blood cancer patients with potentially life-saving bone marrow donations.
Roussotte is going to bring her efforts to UCLA on Friday afternoon at a marrow donor registry drive in the MacDonald Medical Research Laboratory.

A new student-run program that aims to encourage collaboration between students interested in starting companies recently started accepting applications.
The new program, called Bruincubator, was started by students in Bruin Entrepreneurs to teach undergraduate students how to work together to start a company, said Varadh Jain, a second-year mathematics and economics student.

The clock struck 2 a.m. as groups of students raced through their twelfth straight hour of drawing on windows, crumpling up pieces of scrap paper and brainstorming new healthcare technologies.

Two UCLA graduate students met a year ago this week in the midst of an annual networking week, and hatched an idea to bring operating room technology to battlefields, ski slopes and other areas prone to causing brain injury.