Author Archives: Charlotte Hsu

In their quest to recruit new members this fall, the Bruin Nerds arrived at orientation toting artist and engineer Chuck Hoberman’s classic invention ““ the plastic geodesic expanding sphere. Organizers say that for a club started less than a year ago, Bruin Nerds has grown quickly. Over 300 people have joined with an average of […]

The UCLA International Institute will hold a series of speaker events starting today on issues the media and public may be missing with regard to the South Asian earthquake and tsunamis, including the impacts and reconstruction efforts that will last years beyond the initial wave of donations, as well as the global context of the […]

The quarter began Thursday with student groups of varied backgrounds united under a common goal ““ soliciting contributions for victims of the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged South Asia during the holiday season. The scope and urgency of the disaster forced campus organizations into high gear during the normally relaxed winter break. Resonance, LLC, a […]

Researcher Rita Kern’s relationship with UCLA, her employer of over two decades, is an embodiment of the good and the tough, the rewarding and the disappointing. Her projects, colleagues and supervisors grew to become important parts of her life as she worked in the same Neuropsychiatric Institute laboratory for 24 years. When California’s budget took […]

An affair with a Pilates instructor, a couple’s experiences with literal and figurative strangulation, an academic whose specialty in moral philosophy doesn’t preclude him from delving into promiscuous sex with students and colleagues ““ such is the world laid out by Jonathan Franzen, the National Book Award-winning author who spoke Wednesday evening at the UCLA […]

Though a decade-long fund-raising campaign that ends next year has more than doubled the flow of private money pouring into UCLA, officials say a trend of shrinking government funding of public universities means UCLA will depend even more on private donations in years to come. Campaign UCLA, launched publicly in May 1997, reached its target […]

Beijing University Professor Jiao Guobiao caused angst among Chinese politicians this spring, when he wrote a scathing condemnation of censorship in China in a piece whose influence grew rapidly, as users disseminated it on the Internet. Jiao is now spreading his ideas through a speaking tour, which includes a two-hour stop today at UCLA. Hosted […]