Academics
March 3, 2025 9:23 p.m.SPROUT at UCLA nurtures K-5 students’ budding interests in STEM through field days
A new UCLA club is teaching Los Angeles’ elementary school children to love science.
SPROUT at UCLA, which formed in January, aims to bring one free STEM field day to schools in the LA Unified School District for kindergarten to fifth-grade students.
By Amy Wong
Arts
Feb. 28, 2025 4:51 p.m.Author Adam Phillips leads discussion on psychoanalysis, practicing kindness
This post was updated March 2 at 8:32 p.m.
Psychoanalytic thinker and author Adam Phillips presented ideas about kindness, mental health and psychoanalysis Thursday.
Phillips, a former child psychotherapist, spoke with UCLA professors David Russell and Mona Simpson about his untraditional opinions on psychoanalysis at the Landmark Westwood theater.
By Amy Wong
Arts
Feb. 19, 2025 3:05 p.m.Alyssa Murray discusses mental health in her self-published book ‘The A-Word’
This post was updated Feb. 23 at 7:58 p.m.
Alyssa Murray is applying her studies in English and psychology to write and self-publish a book.
Murray, a third-year English and psychology student, began writing her debut novel as a freshman at UCLA and later published it in January.
By Amy Wong
A Closer Look
Feb. 17, 2025 11:15 p.m.Trump’s push against Education Department raises concerns over DEI, civil rights
Experts said higher education changes proposed by the Trump administration could undermine the strength of the American university system.
President Donald Trump has promised to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in schools and threatened to eliminate the Department of Education itself.
By Abhishek Jagannathan and Amy Wong
Arts
Feb. 14, 2025 3:49 p.m.Winner Takes All: Fall in love with the decade’s best deep-cut love songs this Valentine’s Day
Love is in the air across Los Angeles.
As Valentine’s Day causes couples to reflect on their relationships and sparks new romances, love songs of every genre continue to soundtrack important emotional moments and memories.
By Sydney Gaw, Amy Wong, Maya Parra, Aisosa Onaghise, and Reid Sperisen
Arts
Feb. 14, 2025 12:09 p.m.Armen Davoudian weaves together Persian, Armenian culture through poetry
Armen Davoudian combined Persian and Armenian culture with English to reflect on life abroad and in the United States during a poetry reading Wednesday.
Davoudian, a doctoral student studying English at Stanford, read poems about his mother, father, grandfather and others in his life at the Hammer Museum.
By Amy Wong
Arts
Feb. 5, 2025 1:51 p.m.Book review: ‘I Am Not Jessica Chen’ embodies power of self-love over outward comparison
This post was updated Feb. 10
“I Am Not Jessica Chen” is a must-read for those intensely struggling with comparison.
“I Am Not Jessica Chen,” written by award-winning author Ann Liang and published Jan.
By Amy Wong
News
Feb. 2, 2025 11:13 p.m.Felicia Marie Knaul gives talk spotlighting global inequities in public health
This post was updated Feb. 6 at 4:54 p.m.
Felicia Marie Knaul, a health economist and the wife of Chancellor Julio Frenk, shed light on stark global disparities in pain treatment to researchers and medical students Thursday.
By Amy Wong
Arts
Jan. 29, 2025 9:42 p.m.Art exhibit preview: Winter displays showcase variety of mediums, cultural tales
This post was updated Feb. 10 at 12:34 a.m.
With much-needed rainstorms coming to Los Angeles, there is no better place to take shelter from the precipitation than in an art gallery.
By Lucine Ekizian, Puja Anand, Amy Wong, and Martin Sevcik
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