One student commemorates a World War II fighter pilot and his plane through a new, choreographed form, and later, another student gives Diwali – the Indian festival of lights – expression through movement. These are two of 17 performance pieces in the 15th annual “WACSmash’D” showcase, an entirely student-run production put on by the World […]
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UCLA Game Lab dispels stereotypes through female representation
A common stereotype exists when it comes to “the gamer.”
“The angry middle schooler or high schooler in his basement who just plays video games all day and eats Cheetos and doesn’t have any social skills,” said Adeline Ducker, a UCLA Design | Media Arts alumna.
UCLA-led Dawn mission to explore possibility of water on asteriod
The spacecraft Dawn is finally reaching the end of its four-year journey toward the dwarf planet Ceres as part of a NASA project led by UCLA researchers. After passing through the last of the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, the spacecraft will capture high-resolution images to investigate how the solar system formed and how […]
Q&A: Alum Randall Park talks acting career, role in ‘Fresh Off the Boat’
UCLA alumnus Randall Park said he’d never thought acting would be anything more than a hobby. It wasn’t until later that he would drop everything to pursue acting as a full-time career. Park will play Louis Huang in ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” premiering Wednesday. The show was inspired by a novel of the same […]
New magazine ‘The Paper Mixtape’ features LA art, culture and artists
While going through cycles and cycles of names for her new project, second-year art history student Morgan Cadigan played Iron and Wine’s “Our Endless Numbered Days” on a record player and felt a desire to get back to the roots of vinyl and analog. Instead of pure vinyl, Cadigan settled upon the idea of a […]
arTistic Attention: TA Dahlia Schweitzer brings background of experience to classroom
It’s easy to become disenchanted by weekly discussions, typically made mandatory by participation grades. But here in A&E;, we want to help UCLA students realize that teaching assistants are not only students themselves. Outside the classroom, they are also people with backgrounds ranging from musical festival ring leaders to comic strip satirists. With the new […]
UCLA doctor performs safer head and neck surgery with robots
Three years ago, David Alpern felt a lump in the back of his throat and went to see his doctor. His biopsy came back as tonsil cancer. The surgery that his doctor described involves sawing open a patient’s jaw, removing the tumor and closing the jaw back up. Patients who receive the surgery need a […]