The nets are cut, the buzzer has sounded and the accolades are ready. Bruins from all sports set records, won awards and made headlines throughout the country. To commemorate an eventful 2015-2016 year, the sports editors – TuAnh Dam, David Gottlieb, Michael Hull, Grant Sugimura and Hanson Wang – present the Daily Bruin Sports Yearlies for the […]
Tag Archives: Graduation Issue 2016
UCLA class of 2016 enters a weak but improving job market
UCLA graduates will enter an improved job market in June but may still face challenges finding full-time employment after graduating. According to the UCLA Career Center’s 2015 First Destination survey, about 33 percent of UCLA graduates with bachelor’s degrees had full-time job offers within six months. About 21 percent of graduates were still looking for […]
Jazz serves as common language for Thelonious Monk Institute graduates
Pianist Carmen Staaf said her favorite memory with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz was playing at the open-air El Badi Palace in Marrakech, Morocco. The Thelonious Monk Institute Ensemble is comprised of seven student musicians who were accepted into the graduate program in 2014 from a variety of musical backgrounds and age groups. They […]
Architecture programs build on an interdisciplinary approach
Robots may soon be an architect’s newest hammer and nails. Two large blue robotic arms perch on tracks in the back of a local industrial building leased by UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design. The 330-pound machines – the largest industrial robots used by an American college – can be found in the newly-relocated IDEAS […]
Photographer Nolan Isozaki inspired by the pretty and the gritty
Nolan Isozaki clung to the side of a mountain, watching stones dislodged by his backpack tumble down 14,000 feet to the ground. Freezing wind whipped around him as the sun’s light faded over the Rocky Mountains, muffling the warning shouts of his friends in the valley below. Isozaki clasped his Fujifilm X20 camera with frozen […]
Graphic: On the ballot – presidential, senate primaries
Carrying a love for comedy and theater beyond graduation
A young man with big-rimmed glasses, a beard and a naked baby doll told puns from center stage as the audience’s laughter grew. Fourth-year linguistics student Landen Baldwin said he tries to be lighthearted during any situation. He has pursued acting since the age of 7. However, it wasn’t until he played the Mad Hatter […]