Call it Jordan Adams jumping to the right place at the right time. Call it sound positioning in the paint. Call it a fortuitous held ball that resuscitated UCLA after a disastrous closing stretch.
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UCLA students protest to draw attention to Armenian Genocide
Their mouths covered with bands of bright orange tape, about 15 students stood in a straight line in front of Kerckhoff Hall on Thursday to protest and educate students about the Armenian Genocide.
Study lists Westwood buildings at risk for earthquake damage
Thirteen Westwood buildings near UCLA could be vulnerable to collapse in a high-magnitude earthquake based on the findings of a larger study of old, concrete buildings in Los Angeles. A team of UC Berkeley researchers released a list this month of about 1,500 concrete structures in Los Angeles built before 1976, the year the city […]
UCLA medical student, Project RISHI treats leprosy patients in India
A patient climbed onto the table in the Indian village clinic and began unwrapping his bandages in front of UCLA medical student Nikhil Nadkarni. As the bandages came off bit by bit, Nadkarni began to get uneasy. It was his first time dressing a leprosy wound and as he continued watching the bandages unravel, he […]
The business of storytelling: Professor Iris Firstenberg teaches strategies through seminars
For Iris Firstenberg, storytelling is a family business. At the age of 3, she listened to her father teach moral lessons through stories and watched him write numerous engineering books on problem solving, developing her passion for both speaking and writing at an early age. Firstenberg, now a cognitive psychology and management and organizations professor […]
Hunger Project at UCLA provides free SAT prep to LA students
From his family’s one-bedroom apartment in West Los Angeles, Stiven Pesjaka treks to UCLA alone on Saturday mornings for free SAT tutoring. The high school junior wants a high test score so he can get into the college of his choice and achieve his goal of becoming a mechanical engineer. His end goal is earning enough […]
Kyodo Taiko performance to pay tribute to Japanese culture
On stage, a flute lightly sounds, followed by a piercing beat of a chu-daiko drum. Another beat sounds out, and another, in a quickening progression. “Each beat has a sound that livens you up and you’re just taken aback by how big it is,” said Kayla Asato, fourth-year communications student and Kyodo Taiko co-director. “It’s […]