Week in Photos Winter Week 9
About 40 students participated in a march Wednesday calling for UCLA officials to fire history professor Gabriel Piterberg.
(Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Angela Nguyen, a third-year psychology student, co-organized an exhibition on the intersection between tattoos and mental health. Her tattoo, an orange and yellow ribbon laid on top of a butterfly, reminds her of her recovery from self-harm.
(Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
Assistant sound designer Katie Jost helped transform Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to take place during the 1930s. Regardless of backstage stress, Jost said she is drawn to sound design because of its unique ability to create a non-visual world. Her work is not always noticed right away, but it is present throughout the show. Working with music is rewarding for Jost, even though becoming a sound designer was not her original plan.
(Daniel Alacazar/Daily Bruin)
In the film industry, there’s a wide variety of careers to choose from, so deciding where to focus can be a difficult task, said UCLA alumnus Michael Gallant. Gallant, the former governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, advised students to aim to become a “hyphenate” and acquire any combination of skills like directing, editing, cinematography and so on.
(Diana Chen/Daily Bruin)
Alumnus Max Wiederholt recently founded the talent agency, Mischief Ventured LLC, where writers without agents can submit their work directly to movie producers.
(Efren Pinon/Daily Bruin)
UCLA graduate student of ethnomusicology Rose Boomsma, who is also a classical Western flutist, has been learning how to play the Chinese dizi for the past three years.
(Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)
Fourth-year psychobiology student Katie Patel's tattoo was inspired by a phrase a police officer said to her after Patel's first attempt at suicide. The semicolon at the end of the phrase is inspired by the Semicolon Project.
(Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
For months, the Seismic Design team, which is part of the UCLA chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has worked to present a project at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s annual competition in April. The student group, founded in 2006, has regularly updated its technological approach and structural design, said Victoria Lam, the group’s project manager and fourth-year civil engineering student.
(Julie Hanash/Daily Bruin)
As a child, Ben Zuckerman’s father routinely took him to visit a planetarium in New York to foster his early curiosity in the stars. The light pollution in New York City made it difficult for him to stargaze, igniting his concern for the environment. Zuckerman, now a professor emeritus in physics and astronomy, continues to pursue his environmental advocacy efforts at UCLA.
(Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
Junior guard Isaac Hamilton's shot is blocked by an Oregon State defender. Hamilton and the UCLA men's basketball team fell in their final regular season game of the season.
