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2 weeks ago | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
Brandon Lazard, who will graduate in June with a master’s in space physics, is all about the love. Take, for example, his answer when asked about the polarizing Blue Origin space flight. “I have a lot of complicated feelings about that venture, but the most important part for me is that one of the people aboard was Amanda Nguyen,” he said. “She always wanted to go into space but when her rights were stripped away, she responded by becoming an advocate and activist who helped so many people.
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
If you’re lucky, you’ve crossed paths with Sierra Chen. Maybe you did business with Sowind Corporation, the international import-export company she ran from Orange County for 33 years. Maybe you reached for the same perfect paintbrush in an art supply store. Or maybe, you know (or were) a K–12 student who benefited from her philanthropy with the UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle, a free weekly enrichment program for gifted students across the greater Los Angeles area.
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2 months ago | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
When you meet Jack Bobo in person — and trust me, you want to meet Jack Bobo in person — ask him about Star Wars. “I helped develop the official seven forms of light-saber combat,” says Bobo.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Todd Schindler |John Harlow |Jonathan Riggs
Key takeaways Providing relief. The Bruin Wildfire Relief Funds and other campus initiatives continue to provide fire-impacted students, faculty, staff and their families with financial assistance, housing and food support. Staying connected. Across the board, Bruins have stepped up to offer aid and comfort to other Bruins and local residents through community events, basic needs fundraisers and volunteer efforts. Serving Los Angeles.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
Studying abroad is among the most transformative, powerful experiences available to students. But for far too many, the logistics of obtaining a passport can become a barrier. To remove this obstacle and make international travel more accessible to all, the UCLA International Education Office partnered with the Council on International Educational Exchange, or CIEE, to host a Jan. 27 “Passport Caravan” on campus.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | John Harlow |Jonathan Riggs
Dale, homeless for decades and seriously ill, is ragged, pale and of uncertain temper — a peace-loving man, he says, unless you mess with his dogs or his beer. And yet, at 62, he has both a bold dream and a prayer that maybe only UCLA Health can help make come true. The dream, says the graybeard in a tattered trucker cap, is saving enough coin from doing odd jobs around West Los Angeles to put down a deposit on a $50,000 lot next to a fishing hole in his native Michigan.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
UCLA professor Jason De León has won the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” Drawing on seven years of on-the-ground ethnographic research and interviews, “Soldiers and Kings” gives voice and unprecedented context to the people, most of them young men, who make a precarious living smuggling migrants from Central America and Mexico into the United States. The award was presented Wednesday, Nov.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
Prineha Narang, UCLA professor of physical sciences and of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a nearly $2 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for a four-year project to create new probes using entanglement and quantum photonic states. Breakthroughs in science frequently combine new theoretical insights with advances in instrumentation and probes to test these predictions.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
When we think about young adulthood, opportunity might not be what comes to mind first. However, the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent encourages this perspective. According to emerging neuroscience, adolescence — spanning roughly ages 10 to 25 — presents significant opportunities for learning and development that have impacts throughout adulthood.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Jonathan Riggs
Launched in 2022, the UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies, or RFI, has filled its top two leadership positions. Jack Bobo, currently the director of the University of Nottingham’s Food Systems Institute, has been named the inaugural RFI executive director. An expert in sustainable food systems who also served as a senior advisor for food policy at the U.S. State Department, Bobo will bring his expertise to help RFI foster innovative solutions to global food challenges.
