Sera Aintablian was a person who naturally uplifted others, said her cousin Larisa Assadourian.
Aintablian, a second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student who was hoping to pursue a career in medicine, liked telling jokes and tried to ensure that everyone was well, Assadourian added.

This post was updated April 9 at 5:41 p.m.
The ASUCLA Communications Board appointed Victoria Li, an assistant News editor, as editor in chief of the Daily Bruin for the 2022-2023 academic year.

This post was updated Jan. 18 at 12:29 a.m.
Some students have expressed concerns about moving into the dorms amid online classes and changes from the university administration.

The UCLA Planetarium held its first in-person show since March 2020 on Wednesday.
The planetarium, which is on the eighth floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building, was finished in 1957.

Hitoshi Abe was awarded a Foreign Minister’s Commendation from the government of Japan, according to a UCLA International Institute press release from Sept. 27.
Abe, the director of the UCLA Paul I.

UCLA has retained its dedication to European language studies in creating the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, which has been official since spring 2021 and will begin its first full academic year as a fully operational department in fall 2021.

This post was updated July 11 at 6:21 p.m.
Fourth-year English student Ohemaa Ama Asare works at Bed Bath & Beyond, where there was a Black pride station designated by the company to celebrate Juneteenth.

Although students of the School of Engineering petitioned to have an in-person commencement, the ceremony is set to remain virtual.
Anneliese Peterson, a fourth-year aerospace engineering student, hoped to celebrate her 2021 graduation from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science with an in-person graduation ceremony that resembled those in the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rainey Williams saw dozens of parents taking pictures of their children who were admitted to UCLA on a recent visit to campus. It was a sign of life returning to normal, the second-year linguistics and computer science student said.

A sense of unease consumed Tiffany Dong when she heard about a shooting in Atlanta on the news during a family dinner.
“I remember this feeling of dread washing over me because these hate crimes have been going on for so long at this point,” said the second-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student.