The minute Bernard Hamermesh picked up the microphone, he transformed from a resident of the Belmont Village Senior Living community and resumed his role as a professor. Read more...
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Dr. S. Irene Kim, a doctor at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, is one of the members of the UCLA community who has lectured at Belmont Village Senior Living.
Construction in Courtside's bathrooms that was supposed to start in August will likely begin winter quarter, pending bids from contractors. Read more...
The words "rewind," "pause" and "fast forward" are rarely used to describe typical lectures. Read more...
Not all classes at UCLA are taught indoors.
Every week, the students in Professor Brian Walker's "Introduction to Political Theory" honors section, dubbed "Philosophy Walk," trek on average a mile and a half around either the campus or Westwood Village while discussing the core values of the humanist tradition. Read more...
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Professor Brian Walker takes his political theory class on walks around campus and Westwood Village to discuss class readings in a nontraditional setting.
As the UCLA Anderson School of Management prepares to move toward financial self-sufficiency from the state, the school held a town hall meeting with students and faculty on Monday to discuss final pros and cons of the proposal. Read more...
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Anderson School Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam discusses the benefits and disadvantages of privatizing Anderson at a town hall meeting on Monday.
UCLA student governments are planning events to combat the proposed fee increase by University of California President Mark Yudof. The Undergraduate Students Association Council will hold a phone-banking event on Bruin Walk this week to call members of the UC Board of Regents and urge them to vote against the fee hike. A "study-in" at Powell Library will also be held later tonight, among other events. Read more...
Johanna Reed wants to know how eating pasta makes people feel. To Reed, eating food has always been an emotional experience, and her latest project, making a food opera, was one of several artistic endeavours addressed at a panel on Friday. Hosted by the UCLA Art | Sci Center & Lab, the panel sought to foster the compatibility of art and science by showing how the two are being combined in the world. Read more...
