A 5-year-old boy ran, laughing, across the room toward his friends, causing portraits of his classmates’ faces to flash up on the wall. The excited voices of kindergartners quickly filled the room. Amid cries of “I see me,” Noel Enyedy quieted a class of 22 kindergartners at the UCLA Lab School, a school for children […]
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UCLA students to visit LA city councilmember Paul Koretz
UCLA students will meet with Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz Friday as part of a visit to better connect students with their local government representatives. The Undergraduate Students Association Council External Vice President’s Office’s local affairs component is inviting students to sign up for the event, during which students will observe a council meeting […]
The business of storytelling: Professor Iris Firstenberg teaches strategies through seminars
For Iris Firstenberg, storytelling is a family business. At the age of 3, she listened to her father teach moral lessons through stories and watched him write numerous engineering books on problem solving, developing her passion for both speaking and writing at an early age. Firstenberg, now a cognitive psychology and management and organizations professor […]
UCLA officially opens meteorite gallery with interactive exhibit
Visitors stopped to run their hands over the rugged surface of a 357-pound meteorite at Friday’s grand opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. The dark holes and deep set shadows of the meteorite, also known as the Clark Iron, is the new museum’s primary exhibition. Located in the Geology Building, the museum contains about 100 […]
UCLA Research Escalator program offers funding workshops
UCLA launched a series of workshops this quarter about funding opportunities and multidisciplinary research to encourage faculty, staff and students to collaborate with people in multiple fields of study. The events, collectively the UCLA Research Escalator program, are part of the recently launched Grand Challenges Initiative, which aims to bring researchers together to help solve […]
UCLA professor integrates passion for music in research on communication
The sound of a bow pulling across a violin string fills students’ ears in a Royce Hall classroom. Making the sound with no other instruments but his voice, Greg Bryant, a communication studies professor at UCLA, explained to his class how people tend to categorize certain sounds. Bryant currently teaches classes on the connection between […]
NerdWallet study says student debt will lead to later retirement
The current generation of college graduates is likely to retire more than a decade later than today’s retirees because of increasing student loan debt, according to a recent study by NerdWallet, a personal finance comparison website. The study predicts student debt will force millennials – individuals born from the 1980s to the early 2000s – […]