Author Archives: Vanda Farahmand

The lobby of the UCLA School of Dentistry was filled with anxious patients from many backgrounds, some elderly, some young and most just waiting for their turn to see the dentist. And in the unease of waiting to have a filling checked or cleaning performed, some student volunteers helped add comfort to a tense situation. […]

While the sun shines brightly and the wind spreads litter throughout campus, a group of developmentally disabled individuals, working for UCLA’s Facilities Management team, diligently hunts down pieces of litter and helps keep UCLA clean. Though it is a job that often goes unnoticed by UCLA students, it is the workers’ dedication that helps keep […]

As UCLA summer school students travel up Bruin Walk on a hot, summer afternoon, most immediately can tell that they are not among the same crowd that will be present during the rest of the year.  Instead, during the summer, the campus is home to thousands of people with something other than academics in mind. […]

UCLA library officials named veteran employee Teresa Barnett as the director of a long-established program that documents numerous interviews to record a local history. UCLA’s Oral History Program preserves records of the recent past by audio recording people who experienced events first-hand. These recordings are then transcribed and released as books. Many program employees believe […]

Bag lunches, ice cream and watermelon slices awaited an estimated 3,500 UCLA staff employees last Thursday, in the first All-Staff Picnic. Dickson Plaza was filled with staffers as they enjoyed two hours of food, music and dancing at the picnic. The theme this year was Bruin pride, and even Joe and Josie Bruin made an […]

After years of preparation, the UCLA library system is set to have its new online catalog functioning on Wednesday as a replacement to the current catalog, ORION2. This new software, named Voyager, offers the same self-service features that ORION2 had, such as online renewals. But it also has numerous new features that the previous system […]