The Yanai Initiative, which connects UCLA to Waseda University in Japan to study Japanese literature and culture, will become a permanent fixture on campus after a $25 million donation. Read more...
Photo: The Yanai Initiative was established in 2014 after a $2.5 million donation from Tadashi Yanai, founder of the Japanese clothing company UNIQLO. Yanai donated an additional $25 million Jan. 15, making the initiative a permanent campus entity. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
Medical student Neha Akkad called her friend and classmate Stephanie Pham in a panic one night. She couldn’t find the confidential patient information cards she had taken notes on during their shift together. Read more...
Photo: Stephanie Pham, a fourth-year medical student, died Dec. 31. She is remembered by teachers and friends as thoughtful, kind and intelligent. (Courtesy of Annie Pham)
Neil Peter Jampolis would sneak into the back of Broadway productions when he was a child to watch sets come together or actors rehearse. Jampolis’ career celebrated his love of the theater – he was a renowned lighting, scene and costume designer as well as a professor emeritus in the theater department at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Read more...
Photo: Neil Peter Jampolis, a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television for 26 years, died Dec. 15. Jampolis was a lighting, scene and costume designer who was nominated for four Tonys over the course of his career and won one. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
In Alex Korb’s office hours, students talking about their mental health is typical. “Students will come to me in office hours to talk about their mental health problems, and they’ll preface it with, ‘Well, I’m not sure if this is what office hours are supposed to be about,’ and I’m always like, ‘Well, of course (it is),’” said Korb, who teaches Psychiatry 79: “Applied Positive Neuroscience: Skills for Improving Productivity and Wellbeing.” Another class, Community Health 179: “Life Skills for College Students,” and Korb’s class both aim to teach students skills they can use in their everyday lives in college. Read more...
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Buddy Al-Aydi, a second-year English student, threw his backpack to the side of the Bruin Walk stage and ran up to grab a metal baseball bat. Read more...
Photo: Students smashed bathroom scales with baseball bats as part of the Body Image Task Force’s “I Love My Body Week.” The scale-smashing event was co-hosted by Southern Smash, a group that travels to college campuses across California to foster self-worth by inviting students to smash scales. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
John Baldessari loved wordplay, using it both in his art and in his daily life. “He loved to tell terrible jokes – groaners, puns,” said Thomas Lawson, a former colleague of Baldessari at the California Institute of the Arts and dean of its School of Art. Read more...
Photo: John Baldessari, a famous conceptual artist and former professor in the UCLA art department, died Jan. 2 at 88 years old. Students remember his sense of humor and his encouraging style of teaching. (Courtesy of Analia Saban)
This post was updated Jan. 17 at 12:56 p.m. Leia Yen wants to use her time as a Marshall Scholar to make change on an international scale – but also on the community level, just as she was a part of as a community college student. Read more...
Photo: Leia Yen, a UCLA transfer student, won the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for 2020. The scholarship provides the money for roughly 40 students a year to study in the United Kingdom. (Elise Tsai/Daily Bruin)
