On a balmy Saturday afternoon, the third-year mechanical engineering student is hard at work – back hunched, gaze focused and callused hands tense. With a toolbox of hand-worn precision knives and fork-shaped hole punchers sprawled in front of him, he seems to be in his natural engineering habitat. Read more...

Photo: Third-year mechanical engineering student Stephen Yonsik Lee taught himself how to cut, hammer and stitch his own leather products from watching YouTube videos and reading do-it-yourself books. Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Powell Library recently hung research posters made by students in the UCLA Blum Center’s Poverty and Health in Latin America cluster as a way to showcase the students’ work. Read more...

Photo: Second-year English student Gloria Gallardo, left, and second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student Brianna Backman were among a group of students who created research posters focusing on health, poverty and social justice issues.