Bill Dorfman transformed people’s smiles through dental surgeries when he was featured on the television show “Extreme Makeover.” “What I realized is, when you save a lot of teeth, you save a smile,” Dorfman said. “And when you save a smile, a lot of times you save a life.” [Related: Common fear of dentists can […]
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Little Bruin Wishes fundraiser brings gifts to student parents, families
UCLA students’ children will receive the gift-wrapped presents they wish for this holiday season. The children will receive the gifts from Little Bruin Wishes, a gift drive hosted by the Bruin Resource Center’s Students with Dependents Program. The drive aims to fundraise for holiday presents for student parents and their families. Anyone can give monetary […]
Lecturer shares experience as civil rights activist with students
Paul Von Blum remembers watching news coverage of Rosa Parks refusing to give her bus seat to a white Southerner. He said watching the heroic acts of Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery bus boycotters as a San Diego teenager motivated him to travel to the South and fight for civil rights. Von […]
Students, faculty work on sustainability report card for LA County
UCLA faculty and students will update the County of Los Angeles’ sustainability grade based on its air quality and use of sustainable energy. The report card is a project led by the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, a research initiative out of the UCLA Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, which aims to make Los […]
Professors discuss predicted impact of Trump immigration policies on LA
UCLA professors expect President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies to have little effect on Los Angeles. City officials will develop a plan to protect the city’s undocumented residents in response to Trump’s anti-immigration platform. In his campaign, Trump promised to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants from the country. He also said he would remove federal […]
Student pushes for better careers, labor practices in apparel industry
Maryam Shehata saw factory employees crowded into poorly lit rooms, working even through their breaks, when she walked through a manufacturing company in Hong Kong. “In general, there was an atmosphere of disconnect,” said Shehata, a third-year gender studies student. “There was no eye contact (between supervisors and employees) as we toured the factory, which […]
Graduate students connect LA schools to environmental issues
UCLA graduate students are encouraging young Angelenos to take ownership of their natural environments. Osceola Ward, a graduate student in Africana Studies, is encouraging high school students to reconnect with their natural environments by organizing outdoor trips through the environmental education program Outward Bound Adventures. Ward said he was an instructor at Outward Bound Adventures […]