September 23, 2010 – When you arrive at UCLA, some of the first people you’ll meet are UCLA Transportation employees. They represent the campus by giving information about navigating its 419 acres. Two student workers and one of their managers show us how they have created social networks in the process. [3:47]

June 7, 2010 – Graduation is a time to honor achievements: completing academic requirements, participating in campus club activities, working and interning “¦ and, for a unique group of people, raising children. UCLA’s first Parenting Student Graduation Celebration takes place at 2 p.m. on June 13. Children will play games and walk the commencement stage with their robed parents. One graduating international student from Egypt reveals how she balances her roles as a mother, wife and M.A. candidate. [3:46]

Daily Bruin Radio was like the boyfriend I never had in college. I went crazy and wanted to break up, but I still fell in love.

May 11, 2010 – Golden arches mark the entrance to Tanino at 1043 Westwood Boulevard. At this upscale Italian restaurant, your dinner may be garlic bread for $9.50, pasta for $15 to $24, or meat and fish above $30. But you don’t have to be wealthy to savor the richness of Italian cuisine. UCLA computer science graduate student Stefano Emiliozzi shows us how to make pasta “par carbonara” and dine as the Romans do. [5:10]

May 7, 2010 – Chaz Bojorquez’s talk “Philosophy of Lettering” takes place at the Hammer Museum at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 8. He studied ceramics at Chouinard Art Institute (today known as California Institute of Arts), and then mixed East L.A. Mexican American graffiti fashion with Asian calligraphy to form his unique style. Daily Bruin Radio met Bojorquez at his home, where he described how graffiti is a way to make your culture and community be seen, understood and remembered. [5:12]

April 26, 2010 – What happens when a poem becomes a play? Senior English student Jacqueline Hoang completed her honors thesis project by writing, directing and producing a play based off of John Keats’ poem “Lamia.” It was performed in Santa Monica this past weekend. Learn how the characters interact with each other and with the audience through movement, mind and emotions [4:37].

From the Fowler Museum at UCLA, employees John Piccione and Emry Thomas reveal how protecting art is not always glamorous, but meeting accomplished colleagues and world-class visitors is always rewarding. As these employees let their guards down, they reveal their deeper identities as creative individuals.

There’s more to theater than what’s onstage. Go backstage and meet the prop master, costume designer and set constructor of Korean Culture Night 2010. Hear the humor and hard work behind “In the Making,” a large student-run production to be performed at 7 p.m. on April 8 at Royce Hall [4:43].

February 23, 2010 – “Balls for Balls” was a meatball eating competition to raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s fight against testicular cancer. Business fraternity Phi Gamma Nu collaborated with the Student Welfare Committee to host this event for the first time at UCLA on Feb. 22nd. UCLA’s Phi Gamma Nu adopted the idea from another Phi Gamma Nu chapter at the University of Pennsylvania [5:04].

Experienced undergraduates and Professor Larry Tuch, who leads a video game design class for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, explore the elements of a good game. Learn why players get addicted, how playing can tighten social bonds, and where the industry may be headed in the future.