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UCLA students’ app for 2028 Olympic Games wins inaugural Innovation Challenge
MedalUp creators, UCLA recent grads and students, have devised a digital plan that could help boost participation and engagement among global audiences for the 2028 Games. The students’ app won gold in this spring quarter’s inaugural Innovation Challenge, a six-week competition organized by UCLA, Amazon Web Services and technology consulting firm Slalom.
Amazon expands SURE program to Carnegie Mellon and UCLA
SURE provides students from historically underrepresented communities with research experiences at top-tier universities. According to a report from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Science Board (NSB), women, Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians or Alaska Natives remain significantly underrepresented among degree recipients in STEM …
UCLA Engineering Doctoral Student Aims to Bring Accessible Speech Technology to All
The way people talk is influenced by where they grew up, the school they attended, their cultural background and the language spoken at home among other things. But does today’s speech technology recognize such nuanced differences and their implications? That’s the question Alexander Johnson, M.S. ’19 is trying to address.