Thursday, May 27, 2010

Faculty take up residence on the Hill to be closer to the community

Various professors live near students on the Hill to help enrich their college experiences at UCLA as part of the Office of Residential Life's Faculty-in-Residence program. FIR participants shared their experiences with Daily Bruin Radio.

The Daily Bruin Radio Show: Week 9 Newscast

Headlines and stories from the week of May 26, 2010 [14:14]

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Eating your way down Westwood Boulevard: Noodle Planet a hot spot for international dining

May 25, 2010- Noodle Planet in Westwood is an Asian fusion Thai restaurant that caters its food mostly to locals with an American palate, but attracts customers of all sorts and kinds. [3:26]

Monday, May 24, 2010

Salsa rhythm brings dancers, audience to their feet at Fowler Out Loud

May 24, 2010. On Thursday, the UCLA community came together for a night of salsa at the Fowler Museum. Student salsa groups performed and invited audience members to practice some moves, too. [3:30]

Mattel patients' families share their experiences at 11th annual Bruin Run/Walk

May 24th, 2010. During UCLA’s 11th annual Bruin Run/Walk on Sunday morning, students, adults and children ran to raise money for Child Life/Development Services at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital. Hear personal stories of the affected families and student runners as they prepared to start the 5k.[4:07]

Monday, May 17, 2010

After 70 years, Japanese American students forced into WWII internment camps finally receive UCLA degrees

On Saturday, UCLA awarded honorary degrees to former Japanese American students interned during World War II. Nearly seven decades after they were students at UCLA, degree recipients remember the war and internment camp, and they describe what the honorary degrees mean to them.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Multitasking at UCLA going strong, being incorporated into classrooms

May 13, 2010 - Although scientific evidence points in the other direction, multitasking shows no sign of receding either outside or inside classrooms at UCLA. [3:31]

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Mu Alpha Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho to host Mr. UCLA Pageant

May 12, 2010 - Beauty pageants usually conjure up images of swimsuits, evening wear, big hair and a cloud of hair spray, but this year’s Mr. UCLA Pageant changes the age-old format. With comedic competitions, including the contestants’ ideal “perfect date,” and talent demonstrations, the Mu Alpha Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. hopes to bring laughs as well as promote its goal of focusing on education and community empowerment. [4:11]

Monday, May 10, 2010

Eating Your Way Down Westwood Boulevard: Student brings low-cost, high-quality cuisine from Rome to L.A. home

May 11, 2010 - Golden arches mark the entrance to Tanino at 1043 Westwood Boulevard. At this upscale Italian restaurant, your dinner may be garlic bread for $9.50, pasta for $15 to $24, or meat and fish above $30. But you don’t have to be wealthy to savor the richness of Italian cuisine. UCLA computer science graduate student Stefano Emiliozzi shows us how to make pasta “par carbonara” and dine as the Romans do. [5:10]

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Artist Chaz Bojorquez reveals graffiti’s deeper layers that embody history, culture and community

May 7, 2010 - Chaz Bojorquez’s talk “Philosophy of Lettering” takes place at the Hammer Museum at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 8. He studied ceramics at Chouinard Art Institute (today known as California Institute of Arts), and then mixed East L.A. Mexican American graffiti fashion with Asian calligraphy to form his unique style. Daily Bruin Radio met Bojorquez at his home, where he described how graffiti is a way to make your culture and community be seen, understood and remembered. [5:12]

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Eating Your Way Down Westwood Blvd: Rolling with Ambiance at Yamato

May 4, 2010 - We usually think sushi comes with wasabi, chopsticks, and maybe most infamously -- high prices. But at Yamato on the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Kinross Avenue, customers and employees are paying attention to other things [2:54].

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Expression: The Paul Dano Conversation

May 3, 2010 – Paul Dano is a young actor who has had a wild career: He’s worked with Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze and a slew of other respectable artists in the film industry. And he’s as old as a young graduate student. Kevin Seo shares his thoughts about Dano's career, and also spoke to the actor himself about it via phone. [3:58]