Dressed in all black and looking more like a ninja than a yoga instructor, Marco Antonio flings the door wide open to greet the crowd of students waiting to take his class. Antonio, a yoga instructor at the John Wooden Center, uses his dance background to curate his own interpretations of traditional yoga practice. As […]
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Largest UC employees union protests at campuses across state
The University of California’s largest employee union organized protests on all UC campuses Thursday calling for higher wages and a safer working environment, as well as to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the deaths of two union workers. Hundreds of workers from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees 3299 union protested in […]
Associate professor runs computer science camp for preschoolers, parents
An associate professor at UCLA uses blocks, buckets and colorful owls to teach preschool students computer science. Miryung Kim, an associate professor of computer science, began Mommy Computer Science Camp at the UCLA Lab School in July. The weeklong camp uses games, crafts and activities to teach preschoolers and their parents about complex computer science […]
Softball sisters look to play college game together for first time
During one of Briana and Kylee Perez’s first experiences with softball, then-11-year-old Kylee Perez threw the ball right at then-8-year-old Briana Perez’s face, knocking out a tooth in the process. It might have seemed unlikely at the time, but there was a dream in the Perez family that one day, the two sisters would play […]
Film students take on challenge to capture moviegoing magic in 30 seconds
Dangling a camera from a crane in the middle of a movie theater is part of a normal day for UCLA Coca-Cola advertisers Jessie Lee and Golden Zhao. Graduate film students Lee and Zhao were one of five student duos selected as finalists for the Coca-Cola and Regal Films student filmmakers contest. Students across the […]
Student creates startup to facilitate peer-to-peer tutoring
Parsa Rezvani’s father struggled in his high school English class when he immigrated from Iran until he befriended some American classmates. In exchange for helping them in their math classes, he received help in passing English. “(My father) thinks he may not have gotten through those classes without them,” said Rezvani, a fourth-year economics student. […]
Jazz director discusses work on Grammy-nominated album ‘Let Love Rule’
Daniel Seeff is going for a Grammy for the second year in a row. Seeff, the program director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, contributed to albums that have been nominated for Grammys alongside Beyoncé, Rihanna and Bruno Mars for two years in a row. […]