Author Archives: Vanda Farahmand

David Shaw, a UCLA graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner who spent 37 years at the Los Angeles Times as a media critic, died on August 2. He was 62. Shaw died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a brain tumor that was discovered in May. During his career, Shaw authored five books and wrote […]

UCLA is a university that houses one of the most diverse student populations in the nation, and it acknowledges and explores the diversity of its students, faculty and the community at large with various programs that study themes like religion and nationality. UCLA currently has one of the top three Buddhist studies programs in the […]

Most students have fond recollections of starting their first collection. Whether it was of comics or coins, television memorabilia or pogs, collections are a way to express and develop one’s interests. The long-established Campbell Competition here at UCLA, which builds upon this joy of collecting, creates a forum for students interested in book collection to […]

Though star-gazing is a near impossibility in Los Angeles due to the bright city lights, there is one place where students and the L.A. community can go to see the stars in the night sky: the UCLA planetarium, which offers both telescope viewing and special topic shows. Every Wednesday, the UCLA planetarium holds free special […]

The UCLA Anderson School of Management was recently named “Best in Entrepreneurship” worldwide by the Financial Times for a fourth consecutive year. The Harold Price Center, a research center in the Anderson School, offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular opportunities aimed at preparing business students for future endeavors in business management and entrepreneurial […]

For seniors who applied to medical schools earlier this academic year, all that remains is to wait and see whether their hard work over the last four years of college will pay off. Denise Law, a fourth-year physiological sciences student who has been accepted to medical school, has already had a lot of firsthand experience […]

Colonel Edward Wyman Spalding, a descendant of the historic sporting goods family and a life member of the UCLA Alumni Association, died at age 86 on Dec. 3, 2004 after a serious illness. Spalding’s friends and family will remember not only his deep, loving, resonating voice that was featured in the many Shakespearean plays that […]