Author Archives: Yael Levin

For an hour each day, Jeremy Gleick sets aside his biochemistry and neuroscience textbooks and picks up playing cards, juggling balls and sometimes even knives.
“(Learning something new each day) is an opportunity to get to do something I ordinarily would not be able to do,” Gleick said.

As a high school student in northern Idaho immersed in the pages of “A Passion for Books” – a novel by Lawrence Powell, the namesake of UCLA’s Powell Library – Gary Strong knew he wanted to become a librarian.

John Sarvey, a UCLA alumnus and former undergraduate student government president, died on Nov. 25.