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?

Passion for Science and Photos: Neuroscience Professor Scott Chandler goes beyond the science and inspires students with photography

2011 Professor Highlights
Posted by Jose on 03, December 2011 with No Comments

Scott Chandler, professor of neuroscience and chair of the neuroscience program at UCLA, was the center of attention. He was candid and frank in his interview, answering questions with an air of comfort, speaking of his interests while appearing totally at ease. His passions were apparent: teaching; his research,...Read More

Searching for Life’s Questions: Physics professor triggers life science students’ minds to appreciate learning physics

2011 Professor Highlights
Posted by Jose on 02, December 2011 with No Comments

  For many life science students, physics was a subject that incited much aversion and dread, as they recoiled at the thought of concepts so unlike the cellular and chemical material they were used to seeing and often thought of as irrelevant to their overall studies. Well aware of...Read More

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2011′s Student Highlights

Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics student shows dedication to the future

2011 Student Highlights
Posted by Jose on 03, December 2011 with No Comments

Here at UCLA, a relatively large research university, it took some new incoming students more time than others to acclimate and get into the sync of a new lifestyle. However, one freshman student, Adrina Kocharian, had little trouble adjusting to the college life and got into the swing of...Read More

UCLA’s English major allows student the opportunity to explore English beyond the traditional classroom

2011 Student Highlights
Posted by Jose on 03, December 2011 with No Comments

She read. She wrote. She studied Shakespeare…Milton, Chaucer, Blake and a number of other literary legends who made up the English literature canon of the 21st century. As a third-year English student, Megan Beauchamp completed the majority of the core requirements for her degree during the 2010-11 school year....Read More

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