Report Card: UCLA vs. Virginia

No. 13 UCLA football passed its first test of the season with flying colors, defeating Virginia 34-16, nearly covering the 19.5-point spread. Here are the grades for each UCLA position group in the season opener against Virginia. Many of the players are going to like what they see. Quarterbacks: A+ True freshman Josh Rosen had […]

UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen, defense dominate Virginia 34-16

Coach Jim Mora promised when he named Josh Rosen starting quarterback that the true freshman would make plays that would have fans holding their breath. Sometimes due to miscues, other times due to great plays. UCLA’s Saturday season opener against Virginia had a fair amount of breathtaking moments, but they were all for the latter […]

UCLA alumna hosts Indian classical dance program at Fowler Museum

Landowners and city officials commissioned nine-year-old Malathi Iyengar to decorate the entryways of the temples and festival halls in Bangalore, India with bright patterns made of colored flour, grains of rice and flower petals. To Iyengar, creating the designs, known as rangolis, was much more than just a hobby – the rangoli was a powerful […]

UCLA adjunct professor brings lessons from martial arts to classroom

Six years ago, three strangers attacked Ivan Lopez from behind while he was walking home at night from a bus stop on Venice Boulevard, leaving him bleeding and injured. “I thought they were going to kill me,” said Lopez, a 55-year-old adjunct professor in the department of head and neck surgery at the UCLA David […]

MFA candidate’s short film nominated for Student Academy Awards

From the age of 10, Balbinka Korzeniowska had been practicing her Oscar speech, transforming her bathroom into the plush Dolby Theatre and her shampoo bottle into a microphone. On Sept. 17, at the Student Academy Awards ceremony, the UCLA student may finally get to take to the stage and make that speech for her short […]