2011′s Professor Highlights

Do you have a  favorite professor who has inspired you, taught the best class ever, or is a one of a kind personality?  Each year the BruinLife selects professors to feauture in the Academics section. Email us at bruinlife@media.ucla.edu with the subject “Professor Highlight” and tell us who you would nominate and why?

Gaining a Global Perspective: Students learn about the impact of globalization in France and Africa

2011 Professor Highlights
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From Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa, Professor Dominic Thomas lived and traveled all over the globe; students greatly benefitted when he came to Los Angeles. Thomas, the department chair of both French and Francophone Studies and the Department of Italian, was also a faculty member in Comparative Literature and one...Read More

A Passion for Teaching: “Professor weaves the nuts and bolts of history into themes of life which (if you let it) can spark a “higher level” of learning–one which allows thinking outside of the box.”

2011 Professor Highlights
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He sat under the wash of a white studio lamp, attired in black—a jacket and turtleneck. They were serious clothes, matched by a serious face. As he was directed to face the camera, his countenance darkened, and he fixed upon it an intense gaze. If one were to look...Read More

Music and O-Chem: Chemistry professor asks for creativity from science students

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To most undergraduate and graduate students of UCLA, Neil Garg was the average South Campus professor. He lectured three times a week. He administered difficult midterms and finals. Some students passed his class with flying colors, and others failed miserably. But Garg was much more than just another professor...Read More

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2011′s Student Highlights

Keeping Tradition Alive Kevin Willoughby pursues a musical career in a little known musical instrument

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As a young child, second-year ethnomusicology student Kevin Willoughby demonstrated exceptional musical talent, playing the piano at a mere five years of age.  But piano alone could not satiate his musical desires.  His Japanese mother raised Willoughby in an environment saturated in Japanese culture and languages, which played a...Read More

Determined Art Dreamer Student Jacob Patterson experiences life as an artist

2011 Student Highlights
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“My mom raised four kids by herself with huge emotional problems the whole time.  in and out of therapy.  My dad got into drugs, and it wasn’t until he left that things got better” said fourth-year art history student Jacob Patterson.  Emerging out of a sometimes single-parent...Read More

From lectures to labs and clinical experiences, nursing student manages to do photography and dragonboat

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Even for adults, creating plans for the years to come was difficult.  Third-year nursing student Judy Li knew years beforehand what she wanted to do.  While the rest of us were still worrying about the PSAT and prepping for the real thing, Li already had her eyes set on...Read More

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