She doesn’t teach anymore. But from an office tucked away in the East Wing of College Library, Julie-Ann McFann reaches thousands of students by helping their professors perform better in the classroom. As the faculty development coordinator hired about two years ago to work in the Office of Instructional Development, McFann helps lecturers fine tune […]
Author Archives: Charlotte Hsu
Learning from past mistakes
Images of the March 11 bombings that tore through Madrid’s subways in 2004 brought urban planning graduate student Rachel Factor to tears. Her Spain, where she lived for over 10 months, was one of oceans and family dinners at midnight, a far cry from the blood and desperation that caught the world’s attention a year […]
[A closer look] Merced uniquely offers freedom to experiment
They brought their lab and their bags from Arizona when they moved to California in 2003, arriving in Merced with aspirations of helping build a University of California campus. Peggy O’Day, a professor in UC Merced’s School of Natural Sciences who taught at Arizona State University, convinced two of her students to follow her to […]
Making his own kind of music
The three musicians met late one January afternoon at a café in Hollywood after finding each other on Craigslist. Daniel Gall, an undergraduate music student, had a proposition for the two strangers, sisters Claire and Anna Temin: He wanted to compose a piece for their local ensemble, Rue 22, to play. After two months of […]
Fallen trees raise concerns after rain
As some students expressed concern over safety after trees on the hillside behind the Saxon Suites fell with last week’s rains, a UCLA official said little can be done to prevent future incidents. Maintenance crews have cleared the three trees, which stood among others on a steep incline next to the flight of wooden stairs […]
Diversity proposal neglected
An effort to diversify UCLA’s faculty entered its third year this week, with supporters saying that talking to university administrators is like communicating with a stone wall. Among other recommendations, an initiative presented to Chancellor Albert Carnesale in February 2003 calls for the opening of six new faculty positions for each of the campus’s four […]
Chilly voyage warms UCLA patient’s heart
There was that one day they all remember, with blue skies and a temperature in the mid-40s just north of the Antarctic Circle. The setting sun, visible between the steep cliffs lining the Lemaire Channel, drenched the icebergs peeking above the water’s surface in shades of rose and gold. For Nikki Luederitz, a UCLA heart […]