Ecuadorian Bruins raise money for earthquake relief efforts overseas

Manying Ng-Argudo’s family was at a mall in Ecuador when an earthquake struck. The mall’s electricity was cut and people began to jump from the second floor to the first in panic to avoid getting trapped on escalators and inside elevators. Ng-Argudo, a fourth-year psychology student, and other Ecuadorian students at UCLA recounted how they […]

Alum uses mentorship to translate medicine across cultures, classes

When Efrain Talamantes was young, his mother was sidelined from her job for months because she couldn’t explain her arm injury to a doctor who didn’t speak Spanish. So when Talamantes turned 10, he became his family’s medical translator. Now, Talamantes, a UCLA alumnus, arrives at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital every morning […]