Twelve hundred students trudging on the floor of Pauley Pavilion for Dance Marathon took breaks for meals. An app startup called PlayFull had arranged the catering for the five meals served throughout the day and night. Nine UCLA students and alumni currently run PlayFull, an app in which users play games to earn reward points. […]
Author Archives: Ishita Gambhir
Tattoos relate mental health stories in art exhibition
Angela Nguyen has a tattoo of a colorful butterfly conspicuously etched on her right ankle. Less conspicuous, however, are the scars that lie underneath the tattoo – the permanent and colorless marks of self-harm. Nguyen, a third-year psychology student, is organizing an art project called the Mental Health Tattoo Art Exhibition in the Powell Library […]
For talent agent Natalie Novak, digital media is the future
When Grace Helbig, Connor Franta and several other Internet stars checked into hotel rooms two years ago while attending the world’s largest online video conference, VidCon, something caught their attention. Their room keys appeared different. Natalie Novak had added color, some gloss and a brand name to otherwise ordinary card keys. The seemingly small change […]