One student piece at Thursday’s upcoming Powell exhibit was inspired by an image of a woman beheading her enemy with a tent pole. The historical document “Judith Slaying Holofernes” was one of many manuscripts displayed in the Getty Center’s 2017 exhibition “Illuminating Women in the Medieval World.” After receiving a preview of the Getty’s exhibition, students of the summer 2017 course History 119D: “Sex in the Middle Ages” created reaction works as part of their final project. Read more...

Photo: Shreya Banerjee, a third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student, will display her mixed-media work titled “Durga Slays Mahishasura: A Medieval Manuscript” at the Powell Rotunda exhibit “Inspirational Illuminations: Reacting to Medieval Manuscripts.” (Manpreet Grewal/Daily Bruin)

Myra Aquino left a career in medicine to pursue filmmaking. But she used her experience as a medical student to direct a short film about a group of interns in a busy county hospital. Read more...

Photo: Actors Andre Jackson and Camille Harman play doctors in “Take Care,” an upcoming short film directed by graduate film student, Myra Aquino. Aquino used her experience as a former medical student as inspiration for the film, aiming to display on screen the pressures faced by doctors. (Courtesy of Camille Harman)