Haylee Hessell is a third-year english major and soloist in Spring Sing 2017. At the age of 15, she picked up the guitar and began writing and composing her own songs.

As Coachella Weekend 2 approaches, UCLA students make their preparations for outfits and supplies. For many, this is their first time, while others are more aware of what to wear and pack to the desert music festival.

Students danced, moraled and watched performances at Dance Marathon last weekend.

Students danced for 26 hours while bands, solo artists and dancers performed throughout the night in Pediatric AIDS Coalition’s 16th annual Dance Marathon at UCLA.

Holding a Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA, Alexey Stomakhin now spends his days working at Walt Disney Animation Studios as a senior software engineer. His research helped bring to life the water from this year’s Oscar-nominated animation feature “Moana”.

A week before the Oscars, the 3rd Street Dance Studio hosts a La La Land choreography workshop to learn the steps of “A Lovely Night,” a dance sequence featured in the Oscar-nominated movie.

Across campus, students flock to various television screens to watch the Big Game. See how students watch and react to Sunday’s Super Bowl LI.

Daniel Miller, a first-year sociology and pre-communications student from Madrid, has dreams of making it big as a composer and lyricist. Watch as he discusses his writing process and how he got into music while simultaneously showing off a bit of his work.

Erik Schweitzer, a faculty advisor at the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, speaks of his experiences with his two alpacas and three golden retrievers. Follow along as he shows how his pets have affected his life.

Collecting Creatives is a video series highlighting creative people and their work around campus.
Our next creative is an Israeli-American genderqueer gay male-bodied individual, or simply known as Timna.