For Colleen Jaurretche’s students, ‘Waiting for Godot’ comes to life
With performances taking place at the Geffen Playhouse, students were treated to Beckett’s work at its most intentional.
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A rainbow of birds in haiku
Fourth-year English major Rebecca von Damm honors a Roy G. Biv of avian species in a cycle of seven original poems.
‘The art of seeing things anew’: Highlights from David Schaberg’s 2024 commencement keynote
The former Humanities dean’s wish for our newest graduates: “May you bring to everything you touch more care, more understanding, more generosity and, above all, more humanity.”
For these first-year students, writings from the past shed light on issues around today’s AI revolution
A cluster course seminar led by doctoral candidate Jason Araújo provoked discussions on the nature of rapidly changing technology.
3 Humanities students win UCLA Library awards for undergraduate research
Kaitlyn Coons, Emma Horio and Isabella Durgin are among the honorees for 2024.
Mario Peng Lee seeks to improve lives through technology
As a student in UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, he studied how to apply AI and machine learning to natural language processing and understanding.
With B.A. and M.A. – and having led a UCLA course – Harry Li launches his teaching career
Through the Undergraduate Student Initiated Education program, he designed and taught a course on Mandopop for fellow UCLA students.
For classics and history major Kaitlyn Coons, graduation isn’t the end of the UCLA journey
After graduating with two majors and two minors, she will begin a postbaccalaureate in the classics department this fall.
UCLA storytellers use Grand Theft Auto as basis for series of original films imagining L.A. in 2050
“Grand Theft Eco,” a series of three short films, was created by a team led by professors Ursula Heise and Danny Snelson.
In a world shaped by data, what happens to social justice?
A UCLA cluster course draws from the humanities and social sciences to encourage students to examine the impact of statistics and AI in a world that is increasingly being defined by datasets.