UCLA alumnus builds dollhouse inspired by Altes Haus

After perusing shelf after shelf in UCLA libraries to search for ideas on how to build his first dollhouse, Leslie Evans finally found a black-and-white image of the Altes Haus – tall, gabled and shingled. Evans, a UCLA alumnus who worked various positions in the UCLA International Institute for 19 years, devoted 15 years to […]

Bruins tell their stories for National Coming Out Weeks

More than 100 students took part in a series of campus events in honor of National Coming Out Weeks, held from Oct. 11-25. The Queer Alliance, Cultural Affairs Commission and Office of Residential Life hosted activities, which ranged from a town hall meeting to a resource fair. Below, one student reflects on his experience coming […]

Student hones creativity with leather crafting

On a balmy Saturday afternoon, the third-year mechanical engineering student is hard at work – back hunched, gaze focused and callused hands tense. With a toolbox of hand-worn precision knives and fork-shaped hole punchers sprawled in front of him, he seems to be in his natural engineering habitat. He then takes the knife and digs […]

New class allows students to engage campers in environmental studies

A group of 20 UCLA students – half-smiling, half-gaping – seemed puzzled upon hearing about their first class assignment: build the tallest free-standing tower of pasta. It was the first day of their environmental science class, called “Building an Outdoor Environmental Education Program for UCLA UniCamp.” For the first time this quarter, UCLA is offering […]

UCLA caters to student interest with actuarial mathematics major

For those with a craving for an interdisciplinary subject that marries finance with math, there is a new major that will quench that thirst. Financial actuarial mathematics – previously a concentration in the mathemathics/applied science department — is being offered as a major for the first time this quarter. The major weaves math with business, […]