Author Archives: Jessica Chung

With graduation just around the corner, some seniors are ready for another few years of school. “I feel that with any field you have to keep going on, keep expanding, keep learning. I feel like I don’t know anything right now, like I’m just getting started,” said astrophysics student Christel Smith, who will study in […]

Students may find that differing names and differing departments are irrelevant when it comes to married faculty on campus. Take, for example, math lecturer Andrea Brose and atmospheric sciences Associate Professor Bjorn Stevens. “From working in different departments we get different perspectives. One’s a big department and the other is small. … We get more […]

The Chilean sea bass is heavily overfished ““ scientists predict commercial extinction before 2005 ““ and UCLA serves it for dinner. Seafood dishes that appear on campus are made from a variety of sea creatures, including orange roughies and Chilean sea bass. However, unlike most other seafood served at UCLA, these two species are also […]

Students typically meet with their professors in their offices on campus. But sometimes students can meet with their professors in their homes ““ the residence halls. The Faculty-In-Residence program enables faculty and staff members to live in residential hall apartments on the Hill. “We want faculty to be parts of a larger university. It’s very […]

Students who enter dining halls hoping to get a fresh green salad may end up getting a little more protein than they bargained for. Some dorm residents have found bugs among the green leaves on their plates. “I was really disgusted because I almost ate it, only my roommate saw it and told me before […]

Next year, transfer students seeking housing in one of the four Hilgard Houses may have to look elsewhere for living accommodations. For the past five to six years, the university has been leasing the Hilgard Houses from four sororities. The leases all end in late August of this year and the university is offering to […]

Students on the Hill will be living through a surplus of construction, with the construction of Hedrick North and the renovations of Covel Commons dining hall, Courtside and Sproul Hall. Covel Commons dining hall, which has just completed demolition and is undergoing construction, is set to be completed in late June. The constructors are now […]