With 7.2 million Californians registered to “drop, cover, and hold on” under a desk or table at exactly 10:21 a.m. Thursday, the third annual Great California Shakeout drill will be by far the largest earthquake drill in the state’s history.

Young Research Library

The $4 million project launched in 2010 with one goal in mind: more space for students.

Students having a difficult time paying their student fees each quarter can now join in a payment plan that allows them to pay their fees in three monthly payments within each quarter.

From eating at barbeques with professors to building concrete canoes and steel bridges as part of an annual competition, Shane Shin said he reaped all the benefits of joining the American Society of Civil Engineers, also known as ASCE.

Early this fall, sociology lecturers Terri Anderson and Mark Jepson, who have each taught at UCLA for over 20 years, were handed pink slips.

When Kantathi Suphamongkhon first stepped onto the UCLA campus in 1973, he was an undergraduate pre-med student. At the time, his father was the Thai ambassador to the U.S., but Suphamongkhon wanted to keep his career options open.