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UCLA student group to be honored for promoting diversity in STEM education

October 14, 2014/in Featured Stories, Students /by UCLA College

For years, Walter Mancia searched for a chance to discover his talents. As the child of a single mother in rural Honduras, Mancia quit school at 13, in part because his family was unable to afford school materials for him and his three younger siblings. It seemed as though his formal education might be over.

UCLA Egyptologist gives new life to female pharaoh from 15th century B.C.

October 8, 2014/in Faculty & Research, Featured Stories /by UCLA College

By the time of her death in 1458 B.C., Egypt’s Pharaoh Hatshepsut had presided over her kingdom’s most peaceful and prosperous period in generations. Yet by 25 years later, much of the evidence of her success had been erased or reassigned to her male forbears.