Ripples of impact from ‘Big Bang’ scholarship seen in student’s success

Now Shi, a first-generation college student from a low-income family in Huntington Beach, California, is in his last year at UCLA, majoring in biology, and planning a career in medicine to give back to his community. Like Shi, nearly a third of UCLA undergraduates are first-generation college students, and more than 35 percent of undergrads ...