Thursday, February 5



Contestant fuses passion for art and baking into winning entry in UCLA Edible Book Festival

Lauren Peikert’s pound cake, shaped like an open book, was topped with a chocolate powder garden and candy vegetables and exuded a playful and imaginative take on “The Tale of Peter Rabbit.” As the winning selection of two of the festival’s categories, her piece did not go unnoticed. Read more...

Photo: Santa Barbara City College student Lauren Peikert won both the People’s Choice award and the Best Student Entry award at this year’s Edible Book Festival.



Student-facilitated course at UCLA explores fashion history

UCLA is moving in forward fashion with the addition of a student-facilitated fashion history and design course this quarter. The seminar course, Theater 88S: “Designing Century: Fashion Design Introductory Course,” was created by fourth-year computational and systems biology student and self-taught designer Jennifer Lee, who said it was the first of its kind. Lee will teach a weekly seminar on the history of 20th-century fashion by analyzing design techniques of distinguished fashion designers like Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Today will be the class’s first session. Read more...





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