Saturday, July 11

Children from working-class families invited to UCLA to see opportunities

Maria Mena, a janitor at Santa Monica College, brought her son to UCLA on Saturday to motivate him to pursue higher education. “A lot of kids in our community aren’t motivated to go to college because they don’t think it’s for them, so they don’t go,” she said. Read more...

Photo: Families of garment, janitorial and domestic workers involved in UCLA Labor Center’s Parent Worker Project came to UCLA on Saturday to spend a day on campus and learn more about how they can access higher education. (courtesy of Wil Prada)


Professor dies at 74, remembered for curiosity, linguistic advances

UCLA faculty remember Charles Goodwin for making strides in researchers’ understanding of human speech. Goodwin, a distinguished professor emeritus in the department of applied linguistics, died on March 31 due to cancer. Read more...

Photo: Charles Goodwin, a professor emeritus in the department of applied linguistics, died on March 31 due to cancer. He was 74. (Courtesy of UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture)


Professor remembered for developing heritage language learning, dies at 71

Olga Kagan dedicated the last two decades of her life to a community that is often overlooked in language instruction. She helped pioneer heritage language learning designed specifically for children of immigrants who speak a language other than English at home but cannot read or write it very well. Read more...

Photo: Olga Kagan was a professor and undergraduate advisor in the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian languages and cultures. (Courtesy of Diane Hofland)


UCLA professor heads long-term evolutionary biology project on marmots

Daniel Blumstein’s office is filled with marmot souvenirs, ranging from a “marmot-Xing” sign, to marmot T-shirts and memes, to a casino advertisement featuring a marmot. Blumstein, a UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professor and head of the Marmot Project of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, studies a range of topics through his research on marmots, including marmot alarm calls, environmental conservation and the evolution of animal behavior. Read more...

Photo: Daniel Blumstein, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor and head of the Marmot Project in the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, studies a range of topics through his research on marmots. (Photo by Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin, Illustration by Evan Charfauros/Daily Bruin)


City and crime editor Jacob Preal appointed as 2018-2019 editor in chief

The UCLA Communications Board appointed an assistant News editor as the next editor in chief of the Daily Bruin in a meeting Monday night. Jacob Preal, a second-year political science student, was officially appointed after receiving the staff’s endorsement at a hearing Friday night. Read more...

Photo: Jacob Preal, a second-year political science student, was officially appointed as editor in chief after receiving the staff’s endorsement at a hearing Friday night. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)


UCLA alumna named TED Fellow for photojournalism, filmmaking

Isadora Kosofsky was photographing a woman in a motel parking lot in New Mexico when she heard a gunshot. Kosofsky was afraid, but the woman she was documenting was used to witnessing displays of violence. Read more...

Photo: Isadora Kosofsky, who graduated from UCLA in 2017, is a photojournalist who covers individuals in prison, senior citizens and developmentally disabled individuals. (Courtesy of Ryan Lash)


Alumnus supports accessibility for visually impaired students

Süleyman Ari memorized the voices of each of his students in his discussion sections because that was the only way he could distinguish them. Ari, who graduated from UCLA with a master’s degree in political science in 2004, was the only blind teaching assistant on campus from 2000 to 2005. Read more...

Photo: Süleyman Ari, who graduated from UCLA with a master’s degree in political science in 2004, is now a professor of accessible education at Anadolu University in Turkey. (Photo courtesy of Chimica Oggi-Chemistry Today)



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