Sophie Rane

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• Applied linguistics major to begin this fall

  Sept. 24, 2009 at 2:09 a.m.

  Jeeyeon Lee learned English growing up in India, where she remembers tedious lectures and uninventive teaching methods.

• FlyAway shuttle to decrease frequency

  Aug. 10, 2009 at 12:57 a.m.

  Los Angeles World Airports recently launched a new Westwood schedule for the popular FlyAway shuttle service, which allows students to travel between the airport and Westwood without paying the steep prices of cabs or other shuttle services.

• Making the Hill water wise

  Aug. 3, 2009 at 1:14 a.m.

  At a school as large as UCLA, it can be easy for students to lose sight of how their individual consumption habits affect the community as a whole.

• Test service creates addition to GRE

  July 13, 2009 at 1:58 a.m.

  When applying to graduate school, Emily Martin found the process to be daunting.

• Students dedicate efforts to participate in humanitarian projects

  June 22, 2009 at 1:55 a.m.

  Working for health care groups and independent businesses established in developing countries, a number of UCLA student groups will lend their time this summer to volunteer abroad.

• Senior-alumni dinners facilitate networking

  May 26, 2009 at 1:27 a.m.

  To make the prospect of leaving school and entering the “real world” less daunting for graduating seniors, the UCLA Fund’s Senior Class Giving Committee has launched a new program called Career Conversations.

• Professor in Japanese studies receives award

  May 12, 2009 at 12:31 a.m.

  Dr. Fred Notehelfer, the driving force behind the establishment of UCLA’s Center for Japanese Studies, will be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government in a Los Angeles ceremony today.

• Six faculty to be inducted in arts and sciences academy

  April 28, 2009 at 1:10 a.m.

  Six UCLA faculty will soon join George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and other noted thinkers and policy makers as fellows in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Student service group aims to expand

  April 23, 2009 at 1:51 a.m.

  The Campus Retention Committee provides free services including peer counseling, one-on-one mentoring, internship classes and writing tutorials in order to increase graduation rates among minority students.

• Burkle hosting conference

  April 14, 2009 at 12:55 a.m.

  A conference hosted by UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations will examine the issue of international humanitarian intervention today.