Jeremy Gleick devotes one hour each day to learn something new

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.

Ravi Zacharias confronts issues of tolerance

Growing up in predominantly Hindu India, Ravi Zacharias came across many instances where people would greet him, a Christian, with “Merry Christmas.” Since moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1985, Zacharias said he has noticed that people greet each other with a more inclusive phrases such as “Happy Holidays.” Zacharias hopes to explore the topic of […]

Former UCLA professor enjoyed Russian poetry, inspiring students

Vladimir Fedorovich Markov, a professor emeritus in the Slavic languages and literatures department and a Russian literature scholar, died Jan. 1 at his home in Los Angeles, after a long period of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 92. Markov’s colleagues and friends knew him as a witty man with a passion for Russian poetry, […]

Global studies program review postponed

The global studies interdepartmental program will not undergo review for another year, as it works to reorganize its curriculum in light of state budget cuts in past years. The program would have started preparing for its first eight-year review this month, but requested to postpone the review. The UCLA Academic Senate approved the request Wednesday. […]