Friday, May 23




Alumna Laura Ling shares thoughts on experiences at UCLA and in journalism

Laura Ling graduated from UCLA with a degree in communication studies in 1998 and went on to become a television journalist, traveling the world for former Vice President Al Gore’s independent cable channel Current TV. Ling was detained in North Korea for several months in 2009, before former President Bill Clinton helped her and another imprisoned journalist return home safely. Read more...

Photo: Laura Ling will moderate an event tonight featuring former Secretary-General Kofi Annan.


BruinHope shares necessities, hearts with children in Tijuana

TIJUANA, Mexico — Laughter, shy smiles and curious eyes fill the front yard of La Tribu de Jesus children’s shelter when UCLA students from BruinHope arrive on the dusty, sunbaked fringes of metropolitan Tijuana. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus Luis Pelayo, left, is a former director of student group BruinHope, which travels to Tijuana, Mexico, twice a quarter to provide resources and company to children at a shelter.





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