Tuesday, February 17




Student group for formerly incarcerated sees first graduating class

As a formerly incarcerated student, Armando Tellez’s path to higher education was far from traditional. “I got shot when I was 21. That was the same year I enrolled in college,” said Tellez, who will be graduating with other formerly incarcerated students this week as part of the Underground Scholars Initiative. Read more...

Photo: The Underground Scholars Initiative offers academic resources and support to students who were either once incarcerated or affected by the criminal justice system. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin)


UCLA Lab School encourages inquiry, applied learning in STEM and art

This post was updated June 29 at 1:25 a.m. It’s noon in the schoolyard, and laughing children swarm wooden play sets and build tunnels from plastic waffles that fit together like blocks. Read more...

Photo: iSTEAM teacher Ding Kong engages with first- and second-grade students at the UCLA Lab School. iSTEAM stands for inquiry for science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. (Andrew Arifin/Daily Bruin)


ROTC training leader to retire, leaving legacy of respect and caring

A dozen handwritten cards fill Lt. Col. Bruce Fike’s office wall, many of them from cadets thanking him for training them and telling him about their current assignments. Read more...

Photo: Lt. Col. Bruce Fike will retire from leading UCLA’s Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps after three years at UCLA and more than 30 years in the Air Force. (Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin)


Student services director for Luskin public policy program retires

Maciek Kolodziejczak comforted a new student at a UCLA Department of Public Policy welcome event in 2001 because she was nervous about balancing her parenting duties with her graduate studies. Read more...

Photo: Maciek Kolodziejczak, the director of student services in the public policy program, will be retiring after 20 years in the Department of Public Policy. (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)



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