UCLA student photographer optimistic about National Geographic entry

Kathleen Yap had just arrived at Katmai National Park, Alaska when a grizzly bear appeared from across the campground. It began to make its way toward Yap and her group of backpackers, causing them to backtrack. “We were thinking of dropping our backpacks and going,” said Yap, a fourth-year environmental science student. “But (the backpack) […]

Q&A: UCLA Extension professor speaks on new novel ‘Olivay,’ perseverance

Deborah Reed started writing in 2011 under the pen name Audrey Braun to avoid the genre writer label. The UCLA Extension professor felt authors that wrote thrillers or science fiction novels, like her, were stigmatized as lesser kinds of writers than those that wrote literary fiction. Thus she used the last name Braun, the German […]

UCLA alumni film first person pilot in Alaskan wilderness

UCLA alumni Ben Arfmann, JP Castel and Justin Perkinson spent two weeks in Sitka, Alaska filming through the cold, rain and snow in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness for their survival series pilot. Premiered on Sept. 27 on the History Channel, “Dead or Alive – Stranded in the Alaskan Wilderness” is set in the heart of […]