Kathryn Peiman paused during her story about capturing wild seabirds off the Hawaiian coast and pointed to a set of scars on the back of her hand. Read more...

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Kathryn Peiman, third-year graduate student in the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, travels to study birds.

It was Cody Geib's first day teaching at UCLA. Read more...

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Cody Geib, a fourth-year English student and former Daily Bruin staffer, designed and taught a seminar about “The Lord of the Rings” this quarter.

By day, she studies and teaches chemistry, but by night, Robin Higgins commands the audiences of bars and clubs with her humor. Read more...

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Graduate student and organic chemistry teaching assistant Robin Higgins founded the Stand-Up at UCLA Club, which hosts comedy shows in Kerckhoff Coffeehouse.

Beach volleyball, warm weather and Diddy Riese cookies. These are some of the things a displaced Californian professor misses during cold winters in New Jersey. Read more...

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Daniel Oppenheimer, a tenured professor of psychology at Princeton University, will be leaving New Jersey to return to his hometown of Los Angeles to teach at UCLA. Photo courtesy of Daniel Oppenheimer.

Playing with his neighbors on the streets of Fremont, Calif. as a little boy, Benjamin Lewis and his childhood friends had a secret language that only they understood. Read more...

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Benjamin Lewis will move across the country to teach UCLA’s first American Sign Language classes in the fall. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Lewis.

Spoken by just 60,000 people, Tommo So is one of hundreds of understudied and undocumented languages in the world. Read more...

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Linguistics graduate student Laura McPherson traveled to Mali to document the understudied language of Tommo So.