Sean Pattison didn't have a story.
Or at least it felt that way, entering the Orientation Program last summer as a counselor. Read more...
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Orientation counselor Sean Pattison displays a poster signed by incoming freshmen that he worked with. As a counselor, he works to build connections between new students.
Rushing for a fraternity this week, Taylor Bazley decided not to mention that he is gay. Read more...
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Taylor Bazley, a first-year business economics student and member of the Queer Alliance, has tried to interact with different student groups to leave his comfort zone.
When Yun Shin arrived at UCLA as a transfer student, she felt the full weight of the label Â"“ she had landed in a world where many students already had groups of friends, and there was no niche she could easily fall into. Read more...
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To build community, Yun Shin founded the Korean Church on Campus with a few friends.
Counting the beats out loud, Alex Franceschi stepped and shimmied and dipped, salsa dancing with his father in the kitchen of his house in Puerto Rico Read more...
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Salsa instructor Alex Franceschi, who teaches classes in the Wooden Center.
Karleen Wray spent a recent shift at the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA playing Rock Band with a group of kids. Other days, she plays board games or supervises as the younger patients paint and play with toys in a room that resembles a preschool. "It's a safe place Â"“ there are no medical procedures in play rooms," Wray said. Read more...
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Recent UCLA graduate Karleen Wray volunteers for the Child Life Program at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and plays with hospitalized children.
University administrators will scale back the pace on a proposed Residential Conference Center and Faculty Club after a report by members of the Academic Senate advised against it. Read more...
Beneath 1,500 years of sediment were the skeletal remains of more than a dozen people, all layered on top of each other in a large sacrificial pit. Alexei Vranich had just made the biggest discovery of his annual dig at a Tiwanaku site in Bolivia. Read more...
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The human osteology laboratory features an archaeological
collection of skulls. Anthropology professor Alexei Vranich is holding an event on the Hill called “Blood, Bones and Bruins” today at 7 p.m. which will feature hands-on forensics exhibits. (courtesy of Gereme Gaffney)
