Wednesday, October 28



Iranian Student Group at UCLA holds annual culture show

The second time his family traveled to the United States from Iran, they never went home. Growing up in the United States, Hirbod Rahimi, a fourth-year neuroscience and biology student, often felt left out living in a neighborhood where he thought his culture was never acknowledged. Read more...

Photo: The Iranian Student Group at UCLA kicked off its 12th annual culture show on Thursday in an effort to educate about Iranian culture. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)





UCLA students visit Haiti, assist local health center

The original caption accompanying this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. As their plane angled down to start its descent into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, three UCLA students saw the rusted tin roofs and dirt streets of a city that was still struggling to recover from the 7.0 earthquake that struck the island four years ago. Read more...

Photo: Lyolya Hovhannisyan, a fourth-year neuroscience student, travelled to the town of Petit-Goâve in Haiti with two other UCLA students to help improve diabetes education and treatment. The students said they could still see effects of the earthquake that struck the country four years ago. Courtesy of Mary Cutler