A group of California students is working to discourage public universities from investing in coal, citing negative social and environmental effects. Read more...

The University of California has pulled its investments from controversial areas before, most prominently tobacco (in 2001) and companies in Sudan (in 2006). Read more...

Chinh Nguyen arranges wooden blocks, each in the shape of a miniaturized living space: doors, staircases, walls that are barely an inch long. Read more...

Photo:

Chinh Nguyen, a graduate student in architecture, works on a model of a modern Venice, Calif. home he constructed using a laser cutter. This is one of several innovations that have changed the workflow of architecture students in the past years.

Brown paper polygons seemed to creep out of the drawer and onto the side of the wall, creating an amorphous shape. Read more...

Photo:

Courtesy of CARMEL NI

Fourth-year art student Carmel Ni uses a room in her mother’s childhood home as a canvas for a gallery installation.

Students walking past Perloff Hall last quarter stopped often, intrigued by what looked like neon strings wrapping themselves around beach balls. Read more...

Photo:

Courtesy of HADRIAN PREDOCK

Jon Burton and Matthew Corbitt, graduate students in architecture, created a project (above) using string made of fiberglass filament.

Jessica McGuire grinned and asked, "Want to see it?" She lifted her shirt, showing a foot-long pink scar that snaked around from her back to just below her sports bra. Underneath were marks left behind by two half-inch incisions. Read more...

Photo:

Jessica McGuire, the captain of the UCLA women’s rowing team, had an operation last year to remove a football-sized tumor from inside her chest. McGuire has maintained her tenacity and sense of humor in the course of her recovery.

Courtesy of Jessica McGuire