Combining art and science may sound classically oxymoronic, but Felice Frankel's scientific photography defies this supposed paradox. Read more...

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Photographer and research scientist Felice Frankel will be giving a lecture today at 6 p.m. in the CSNI Auditorium about illustrating science with photography. (Photo courtesy: Felice Frankel)

For Yotam Solomon fashion extends beyond mere design. Read more...

Last May, when costume design Professor Deborah Landis was invited to conduct a workshop at a film school in Cuba, she had no idea what to expect. Read more...

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Deborah Landis, founding director of UCLA’s Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, has worked on numerous films including “Animal House,” “Blues Brothers” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. (courtesy of Natasha Rubin)

Perhaps in conventional circumstances, when a princess goes to war against a general, we expect the one with the bow in her hair to lose. And so it was easy to dismiss 2009 UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong, the self-proclaimed "Cupcake Princess," when she competed on season two of Food Network's "Cupcake Wars." After all, the final competitor standing between her and victory was Bruce Zipes, a gruff New Yorker who wore camouflage and called himself "The General." Tong opened Cupcake and Cookie, an online bakery specializing in her trademark cookie-filled cupcakes and cupcake-filled cookies, only a month before appearing on the show. Read more...

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UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong is the founder of the Los Angeles-based bakery Cupcake and Cookie and the winner of the season two finale of “Cupcake Wars,” a reality show baking contest on the Food Network.