Summer program mentors high school foster care students

“It’s really nice to have a voice and tell someone what you’ve been through because in foster care no one really sits down with you and asks you how you feel,” said high school foster care student Tiffany Emerson, who is currently spending her third year in the First Star UCLA Bruin Guardians Scholars Summer […]

Professor Peroomian’s Infrared Photography

Professor Vahe Peroomian teaches students physics and astronomy, and, in his spare time, has taught himself landscape photography skills. Peroomian takes a slightly different approach when it comes to taking photos by practicing infrared photography, which utilizes more of the spectrum of light than our eyes can see. the result of Peroomian’s passion for infrared […]

Walkthrough of the Fowler Yaqui Masks Gallery with Professor David Shorter

“They are one of the only federally recognized native people in Mexico,” said David Shorter, a professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, about the native Yaqui people. Shorter has spent several years researching the history and culture behind the Yaqui people. UCLA alumnus Carlos Castaneda played an intricate role in discovering […]

LGBT center’s Sundaes on Tuesdays directed at building community

  This Tuesday marked the first Sundaes on Tuesdays social for the UCLA community this summer. Sundaes on Tuesdays is a weekly social event hosted by the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center every Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. During these socials, the public is invited to stop by the LGBT center to socialize […]

James Kidd Studio featured in ‘Made in LA 2014’

Twisting, twirling and gliding across a multicolored stage, the Sunland Dancers perform “Friend” in the courtyard of the Hammer Museum. “This is a new piece; we’ve done versions of it, but really this version is made for this stage – with this bamboo, with these people – and it’s never going to happen like this […]

Members of UCLA choral ensembles share their experiences

“Music has always been that one constant in my life where I can just escape from my academics and escape from any other problems I am having,” said Kanwal Sumnani, president of the Choral Excellence Association at UCLA. While waiting for the review of a petition to keep the choral program at UCLA, five students […]