Different Views: Daily Bruin Graduation Issue
After 30 years as a screenwriting lecturer, Hal Ackerman will retire and move back to New York, where he started screenwriting, to focus on writing novels and plays.
(Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
Senior Julie Consani always aspired to play sand volleyball at the collegiate level. After plans for Cal State Fullerton to develop a Division I sand team fell through, the senior looked to transfer to UCLA.
(Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin)
Urban planning professor Donald Shoup will retire at the end of the quarter after spending 41 years researching urban planning policy and parking regulation.
(Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Rajaa Alrayyes, a fifth-year civil engineering student (left) and Nabil Alshurafa, a graduate student in computer science (right), created a phone application that tracks physical activity and nutrition.
(Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
Fourth-year sociology student Olivia Taylor has tutored children through the Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project at UCLA. After graduation, Taylor wants to become a television writer and open a camp for young girls in comedy.
(Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
UCLA women’s golf senior Erynne Lee overcame the death of her mother early in her freshman year, in addition to the challenges of adjusting to college.
(Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Graduating fourth-year Design | Media Arts student and Random Voices beatboxer Julia Ramos was featured on a “Pitch Perfect 2” CoverGirl commercial and placed in the top 16 twice in the American Beatbox Championship.
(Lisa O'Brien/Daily Bruin)
India Carney, a fourth- year music performance student, made it to the semifinal in season eight of NBC’s reality singing competition “The Voice” until she was eliminated on May 13. The singer has a postgraduate job lined up at the A Cappella Academy but is still planning on pursuing her dreams of becoming a professional singer.
(Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
This year, UCLA club men’s soccer had one of its best seasons to date. The team posted a 7-1 record in league play as well as advancing to the quarterfinals of a national tournament and taking first place in an invitational at UC Irvine.
(Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Jodi Sagorin Spangler, a fourth-year human biology and society student, has traveled to Haiti and Nepal to help with relief efforts.
(Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
With a “sink or swim” mentality, senior Kaitlin Ray spent a lot of her first year treading water, but eventually found success on and off the court.
(Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin)
Coming to UCLA, fifth-year music performance student Tung Vu had no music theory background, causing him to fall behind in his classical guitar studies. However, he said he purchased a custom-made guitar to revive his passion for music and went from wanting to drop out of school to graduating.
(Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Graduating theater students Noah Holiday (left) and Kelly Lennon (right) will leave their positions as co-directors for HOOLIGAN Theater Company and intern at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank.
(Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin)
UCLA alumni and student photographer, fourth-year biology student Kyle Rubalcava, has taken to campus landmarks to document seniors leaving UCLA in photo sessions.
