Beginning Sunday afternoon, UCLA will host a conference titled “History as Reflected in Israeli Literature,” drawing 30 scholars from universities all over the world. The conference aims to explore the extent to which Israeli literature reflects Israeli history, said Arnold Band, professor emeritus of comparative literature and Near Eastern languages and culture, and the director […]
Author Archives: Abigail Palmer
Alumni pass career advice to students
Last year, as part of the annual Dinners for 12 Strangers program, Stephanie Ching attended a dinner hosted by a UCLA alumnus who was a lawyer. Ching, a fourth-year communication studies student and executive director of Dinners for 12 Strangers, said she was interested in attending law school, and though she had talked with current […]
Science&Health: Undergraduates participate in experiments using online system
By SEDA TERZYAN Bruin contributor sterzyan@media.ucla.edu Tatevik Vardanyan took a seat in a small dark room, alone with only a computer to keep her company. Not knowing what to expect, she nervously awaited the start of the experiment. A torrent of images began to flash on the screen, each lasting only a few seconds until […]
Science&Health: Students lend a hand in ER
Roland Palvolgyi heard a helicopter drone overhead, and the intercom in the Emergency Department buzzed “ETA, five minutes.” Along with doctors and nurses, Palvolgyi watched as the TV broadcast images of a helicopter landing on the helipad above the UCLA hospital, and the Emergency Medical Technicians unloaded a man onto a stretcher. The man had […]
Students weigh in on TAs’ effectiveness
In Mala Mandyam’s anthropology class last year, her teaching assistant brought a newspaper clip to class to begin discussion every week. The class focused on evolutionary anthropology and Mandyam said the clips always produced a vibrant debate. In the classroom, activities such as these have allowed some students to better enjoy their discussion sections. And […]
TAs benefit but must juggle duties
James Lucania, a student in the M.B.A. program, doesn’t plan on pursuing teaching as a career. He is not required to spend time as a teaching assistant, as some graduate students are, and his background is in investment banking. But Lucania said that in the two years that he has been a TA, he has […]
Cultural exchange in the classroom
In Janet Goodwin’s English as a second language course for international teaching assistants, one of the first assignments for her students is to master the elusive art of small talk. International TAs (ITAs) must begin a discussion section using small-talk strategies outlined in the class handbook. In one presentation, an ITA enters the room, spreads […]