Ilona Gerbakher was working as a translator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., when a research fellow requested her aid in a project.
Category Archives: Westwood
Professor Thomas Gillespie's forest documentary thrives
Geography professor Thomas Gillespie had modest expectations for his first documentary.
Personable alumnus Rich Goodman to run for city council
Leading the salsa club during his time at UCLA taught one former student skills that have come back to help him in his campaign for Los Angeles City Council.
Japanese literature Professor Michael F. Marra dies at age 54
Michael F. Marra, a professor of Japanese literature, aesthetics and hermeneutics, died Feb. 23 after a two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.
UCLA faculty assess the opportunities presented by California’s planned high-speed rail system
As talk continues about a national high-speed rail system, four UCLA faculty members are researching the more local effects on station cities, especially in California.
New clean energy standards could raise utility costs for California and UCLA
UCLA utility costs are expected to increase in the short term as California moves toward more aggressive standards for renewable energy.
Sale of Westwood’s last free parking structure on hold as conditions of a deal shift
Moving forward with plans to sell the only free parking garage in Westwood to private interests, Los Angeles politicians have run into a problem: They can’t find any buyers.