Despite having grown up more than 6,000 miles apart and being five years apart in age, Russian native Anastasia Burkovskaya and California native Deborah Mariscal found each other last year through the Global Siblings program at UCLA. Read more...

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California resident Deborah Mariscal, a third-year linguistics and philosophy student, and Russian native Anastasia Burkovskaya, an economics graduate student, participated in the Global Siblings program, which is housed in the Dashew Center for International Students & Scholars.

Brushing dust off a thick, bound 14th century volume, Professor Robert Buswell stood in his office, surrounded by a chronicled literary history of ancient Buddhist culture. Read more...

Michael Heim, a UCLA professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures who was known for his literary translations, died on Sept. 29 after a long battle with melanoma. He was 69. Read more...

The undergraduate student government did not appoint its Election Board chair last night on the date stipulated by the council's bylaws. Read more...

Rain pelts a windy road on a stormy, summer night. Read more...