Listen: Students share stories about five inspiring UCLA professors

Based off of Mitch Albom’s novel, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” UCLA students discuss the “Five Professors You Meet in College,” who embody five distinct qualities that have taught students lessons that will aid them in their lives following college: charisma, open-mindedness, relatability, compassion and innovativeness. The five professors are film and television professor Jonathan Kuntz, Near Eastern languages and Cultures professor Hagop Kouloujian, molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Jay Phelan, English lecturer Maureen Shay, and physiological sciences professor William Whiting.

Students who contributed to this story: second-year English student Daniel Street, second-year Design | Media Arts student Jordan Raoufpur, fourth-year English student Razmig Sarkissian, fourth-year music student Kris Najarian, fourth-year comparative literature student Tenny Arlen, fourth-year psychobiology student Shant Siyahian, third-year Armenian Studies and philosophy student Khachig Joukhajian, third-year philosophy student Kai Bannon, first-year political science and psychology student Grace Jin, fourth-year English student Chelsea Loadsman, fourth-year English Sean O’Connor, fourth-year English student Ignacio De La Cruz, fourth-year physiological sciences student Zach Halpern, and fourth-year physiological sciences student Bertina Loui.