The slow, stretched jazz notes of Miles Davis’ “Blue in Green” harmonized with the rhythm of focused fingers smoothing little, bright blue squares of paper. The last of the students settled into their desks, ready to get to work on their origami – the chalkboard was already covered in a disarray of diagrams. Read more...

Photo: Harsh Karthik, a second-year applied mathematics student, showed members of the Bruin Origami Society how to create origami art at one of the club’s Monday night meetings.

As a young atheist, Nader Saiedi felt that his family’s religion contradicted his trust in reason. The current UCLA professor could not reconcile what he believed were inconsistencies between faith and reason until he began researching the Baha’i Faith – a religion the Iranian government considers heretical, Saiedi said. Read more...

Photo: Professor Nader Saiedi teaches about the Baha’i Faith, a minority religion that is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world.