Bob Foster did not expect anything unusual when he attended a ceremony at the Finnish Consulate General's Los Angeles residence in December. Read more...
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Professor Bob Foster was knighted last year in Finland for his work with the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Matthew Friedman danced with Roger Rabbit in a Disneyland parade at age 7 and has held an annual pass since the age of 4. Read more...
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First-year mechanical engineering student Matthew Friedman, left, and fourth-year Spanish and global studies student Steven Sterrett started the first-ever Disney Club at UCLA last quarter. Meetings consist of watching Disney movies and discussing their background and stories.
A flower, roughly 30 feet in height, slowly emerged through a cluster of trees last fall in the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. Read more...
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The rare plant from Oaxaca, Mexico, growing in the Botanical Garden is only expected to live one year.
College students looking to send last-minute internship or graduate school applications will now have to think ahead, as the United States Postal Service recently announced plans to cut next-day service for first-class mail. Read more...
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Tomislav Zbozinek, a psychology department research coordinator, drops off a letter at the mailbox located in the Ackerman Union’s post office.
The year was 1978. Voters re-elected Jerry Brown as governor; University of California students paid $671 in tuition; and Charles Young was UCLA's chancellor. That June, Proposition 13 passed with the primary aim of reducing and capping property taxes, which were dramatically increasing as the real estate market boomed. Read more...
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Former UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young is part of a lawsuit to overturn Proposition 13 on state constitutional grounds. Young was chancellor of UCLA from 1968 to 1997. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Stephanie Gilbert taught herself sign language through online videos. Gilbert, a fourth-year psychobiology student, wanted to learn how to sign so she could better communicate with the elderly and the deaf community. Her schools, however, did not offer a formal class, which forced her to learn on her own. Read more...
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Stephanie Gilbert learned American Sign Language through online videos before it was offered as a foreign language at UCLA.
Four years of guiding packs of potential Bruins around campus has left Bobbie Nickel with a collection of fond memories. Read more...
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Graduating tour guides(from left) Bobbie Nickel, Ali Karol, Sarah Hadburg, Trent Hubbard and Christopher Handel share fond memories of the tours they’ve given over the past four years through the UCLA Campus Tours program.
