Webs of wire line the walls of UCLA’s Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, a brightly lit room stuffed with chemical machines. An archaeologist in a pinstriped lab coat stands in the middle of the room, cradling his homemade Egyptian pot in one hand and test tubes of finely ground pottery in the other. Read more...

Photo: Hans Barnard, an assistant adjunct professor at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has crisscrossed the globe to analyze ancient societies in locales such as Chile, Peru and Tunisia. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)

Janelle Cohen sat on the floor of her apartment surrounded by scrapbook paper, index cards, old ribbon, markers and 14 boxes of feminine hygiene pads last week, making her first packages for We Care, a feminine care product drive for Los Angeles women in homeless shelters. Read more...

Photo: Janelle Cohen, a fourth-year theater student, started We Care, a feminine care product drive for Los Angeles women in homeless shelters. She distributed her batch of products to the Good Shepherd Shelter on Wednesday. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)

Brian Lehigh shadowed dentists at a local veteran’s hospital several years ago to explore his future specialties. While volunteering, he met patients who inspired him to mesh his career with veteran’s affairs. Read more...

Photo: Brian Lehigh, a third-year graduate student in dentistry, co-created Operation Bruin Smiles, a program that subsidizes dental care for student veterans and students who are former or current foster youths, poses with third-year dental student Lance Peery. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin)