Two UCLA employees take San Diego Comic-Con for panel on geek identity

TRANSCRIPT NABOR: For five days in July, geeks come from all over the world to downtown San Diego for Comic-Con International. This year, two of those geeks were UCLA staff members. They represented UCLA as program participants in a panel discussion on Thursday called “Bringing Geek Back to Higher Education.” According to the panelists, colleges […]

Long Story Short – April 27, 2015

Dariane Nabor and Alex Hyun host spring quarter’s fifth episode of Long Story Short. First, UCLA Music Library staff member Henry Lim and his string quartet talks with us about their Music of the 1990s performance at Powell Library. Next,third-year linguistics student Landen Baldwin and second-year political science major Alex Weber from Rapid Fire Improv […]

Long Story Short – March 30, 2015

Alex Hyun and Dariane Nabor host spring quarter’s first episode of Long Story Short. First, Dr. Jody Heymann, founding director of WORLD Policy Analysis Center, discusses their new report called “Closing the Gender Gap.” Next, first-year biochemistry student Grant Schulte, fourth-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student Joey Orpilla, third-year mechanical engineering student Clara Takahashi, […]

UCLA Bruin Marching Band to rally school spirit in rivalry game

As students and fans get ready for the rivalry football game between UCLA and USC this weekend, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band is working hard to build city-wide enthusiasm for the big showdown. — TRANSCRIPT: NABOR: Los Angeles fans are beginning to feel the stakes rising for this week’s football rivalry game as the UCLA […]