Twelve figures will sit around a dinner table and play a game of chance. As the cards are played, the genetic game proceeds to inform each player about his or her connection to each other and the animals around them. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Art | Sci Center will host its first Hox Zodiac dinner Thursday night at the California NanoSystems Institute. The event aims to facilitate discussion between artists and scientists by featuring a 12-person dinner table in which attendants are organized in accordance with their zodiac sign. (Courtesy of Victoria Vesna)

Juan Garces used to think tattoos were taboo. Now, he has tattooed more than 150 students. Garces, a fifth-year Spanish and community and culture student, has been tattooing students at UCLA since he transferred here three years ago. Read more...

Photo: Fifth-year Spanish and community and culture student Juan Garces has tattooed more than 150 UCLA students over three years. Garces said tattooing gave him the opportunity to reconnect with his love of art by allowing him to practice drawing and sketching in a creative manner. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)

Between classes, UCLA alumnus Michael Soll navigated the stories that unfolded in his imagination. These thoughts often progressed to the next phases of Soll's writing processes, into his phone, then to his computer, on which he would write from his dorm room desk. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus Michael Soll released his first novel, “Scorched” in October. The book has been ranked second on Amazon’s top free 100 list for Teen and Young Adult Action and Adventure. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)