Wednesday evening, five UCLA professors will abandon their podiums for the turntable at the UCLA Hammer Museum's "Ph.DJs," an event at which professors will get to spin and share the stories behind some of their favorite songs with a student audience. Professors were each asked to design a short set of four tracks to introduce and play in the museum's Gallery 6 annex. Read more...

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Professors and Ph.DJs from top: George Baker, Stephen Deters, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Anthony Seeger and Joseph Teran. (Credit: Hammer Museum)

Among the emotional paintings and political photographs on the wall in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery is a single poem, inspired by the complexities and contradictions of Israel and one of the final pieces of the Art Peace exhibition. Read more...

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Maya Hochstadter’s “Untitled”
(Courtesy of Maya Hochstadter)

Correction: The original version of this caption miscredited the artist.

At a weekend rehearsal for "Thank You, Mr. Falker" at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica, Professor Gary Gardner took direction from his students. Read more...

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UCLA alumnus Nick Tubbs plays Mr. Falker, the teacher at the center of the Morgan-Wixson Theatre production “Thank You, Mr. Falker,” based on a children’s book.
(Courtesy of Fabian Lewkowicz)

Ava Dobrzynska wants the world to know that she is more than just an ovarian cancer survivor "“ she's an artist and dancer with an insatiable appetite for life. Read more...

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Fourth-year psychology student Ava Dobrzynska is the creator of “The Beauty in Surviving” art gala, a fundraising event that will educate attendees on the dangers of cancer and will display art by “The Simpsons” director Chuck Sheetz. The gala will be held at the Fowler Museum today, and proceeds from the event will go to benefit the American Cancer Society.

Despite performing on stages in multiple continents, Lesli Margherita sometimes still ends up using the same dressing room as she did in college. Read more...

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Lesli Margherita, left, and Tom Hewitt perform in Reprise Theater Company’s “Kiss Me, Kate,” which will premiere tonight at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Credit: Ed Krieger.