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Events

Thursday,
Oct 8
Meditation Station(10AM - 12PM) Resilience In Your Student Experience (RISE) Center
Intro to Mental Health Services(11AM - 12PM) Resilience In Your Student Experience (RISE) Center
580 Community Cooks ft BUS(11AM - 1PM) Bruin Resource Center
Join us for a Community Cookout in collaboration with 580 Café. A welcoming space to share food, connection, and conversation. This gathering is about more than just a meal; it’s an opportunity to build community, celebrate our shared experiences, and create moments of joy together. We’ll have delicious food prepared with care, time to meet new people and reconnect with familiar faces, and a chance to learn more about the resources and programs available through UCLA Bruin Underground Scholars and 580 Café. Everyone is invited to come as they are; bring your appetite, your stories, and your community spirit! Location: 580 Cafe
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program Info. Session(12PM - 1PM) Undergraduate Research Center - Sciences
The URC-Sciences’ 2027 Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP) is a two-quarter program that supports UCLA students who are conducting a life science, physical science, or engineering research project with a UCLA faculty during Winter 2027 and Spring 2027. This Info. Session will be held via Zoom and go over program compentents and the application.
Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP) Info. Session(12PM - 1PM) Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences
The URC-Sciences’ 2027 Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP) is a two-quarter program that supports UCLA students who are conducting a life science, physical science, or engineering research project with a UCLA faculty during Winter 2027 and Spring 2027. This Info. Session will be held via Zoom and go over program compentents and the application. Location: https://ucla.in/4zoD9Dl
UCLA Recreation Bruin MindFit Fall 2026 - In Person Workshop(12:15PM - 1:44PM) Recreation and Wellbeing
Bruin MindFit is a mindful movement and meditation offering that teaches several effective stress management tools and is offered to UCLA faculty, staff, and students at no cost. In person outdoor grounding and revitalizing workshops to reconnect to the earth and walk mindfully on the grass. An opportunity to take a break and reset in the company of other Bruins. Thursday 10/8/26, 12:15-1:00p, Dickson Court South Tuesday 11/17/26, 12:15-1:00p, Dickson Court South Location: Dickson Court South
This talk will offer an author’s view on the key theoretical, methodological and historical concepts that form part of his book, Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference (Duke UP, 2025). Location: Haines Hall 352
CARE Cafe(1PM - 3PM) CARE Program
CARE Cafe is a space to take a break, connect with others, and explore conversations about relationships, consent, healing, and community. Each gathering features a different topic—from hookup culture and pop culture to friendship and pleasure—alongside casual peer conversation and low-stakes activities. Come as you are, grab a snack, join the conversation, make something, or simply spend some time in community. Location: RISE @ Rieber Hall
CARE Cafe(1PM - 3PM) Resilience In Your Student Experience (RISE) Center
"CARE Cafe is a space to take a break, connect with others, and explore conversations about relationships, consent, healing, and community. " Location: RISE @ Rieber - Rieber Hall 1st Floor Suite 115
Immigrant Acts at Thirty: A Symposium(3PM - 7PM) Institute of American Cultures
Lisa Lowe’s groundbreaking book Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics made Asian American gendered radicalization central to understanding the relationship of state, capital, and culture. This 30th anniversary symposium traces its profound impact on a broad and sometimes unexpected set of debates across disciplines, geographies, and generations. Location: UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom
5th Annual Latinx Welcome: Comunidad, Cultura, y Excelencia(4PM - 6PM) Institute of American Cultures
Enjoy a live performance by Ritmo Vivo, music, a campus resource fair, and remarks from UCLA leadership! Food and refreshments will be provided. Free and open to all. Location: UCLA Wilson Plaza
Writing Strategies for International Students(5:15PM - 6:30PM) Graduate Writing Center
This workshop covers specifics of English communication in academic and professional settings with an emphasis on resources and self-editing skills for second language writers. We will discuss expectations for citation in the U.S. and ways to avoid plagiarism. We will address email etiquette in academic and professional communication. We will also discuss strategies and resources for improving English grammar, word choice, and style.
Artist Meet Up(7PM - 9PM) Residential Life
Artist social to bring likeminded people together to build a network of musicians, artists, producers & more! Location: De Neve Plaza Room
Friday,
Oct 9
In Beyond Dreamers: Transitions to Adulthood in an Uncertain Age (Russell Sage Foundation, 2026), coauthors Sofya Aptekar and Amy Hsin use a life course perspective to examine experiences of illegality among a diverse group of undocumented young adults in New York City. Veronica Terriquez, CSRC director, will serve as the discussant.
Coltrane at 100: Symposium(2PM - 6:30PM) School of Music
On the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth year, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s global jazz studies program will celebrate this giant of the saxophone, this jazz innovator and spiritual/artistic icon of the Black Arts Movement, this patron saint of avant garde. This symposium will honor Coltrane in words. The keynote address will be delivered by  Archbishop Franzo King, co-founder of the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. The keynote address in addition to remarks by the archbishop will feature music from members of the church. Symposium Schedule Opening remarks Salim Washington   Panel 1 (2:10 pm) Moderator Steve Loza Andy Beta, “Infinity as Autobiography”: Alice Coltrane’s Reimagining of John Coltrane’s Late Recordings” Beta examines the critical reception of Alice Coltrane’s Infinity recording, and the ways in which the recording reflected upon her development as an artist. Nadia Milad Issa, “Saint Coltrane, the Dance Eulogy, and the Spirit Veil, ‘A Love Supreme’ as Ancestral Mediation”. This paper positions Coltrane’s canonization b the St. John Coltrane church not as an isolated action of Bay Area devotion but as a template for choreographic and religious practice alike: testimony converted into ritual, grief converted into repeated form. Martin Hundley, “Alice Coltrane, Sound of Free Universe: Performance Practice, Technology, and Feminist Epistemology” This paper explores the ways in which Alice Coltrane’s musical sound and instrumental performance practice expresses the complexity of her identity, world view, spirituality, and travels, both geographically and temporally. Hundley employs and ethnographic and musicological approach to Coltrane’s recording Translinear Light.   Special Guest Speaker (3:40 pm)     Panel 2 (3:50 p.m.) Moderator Regina Carter-Garnett Scott B. Spencer, “Meme and Variations: How Video Mashups of John Coltrane’s ‘Giant Steps’ Became a Thing” The intent of this study is to explore John Coltrane’s online legacy, use it to expand our field’s toolset to better deal with digital texts, and to tease out their various cultural contexts. Aaron J. Johnson, “Africa/Brass and the Communal Experience of Engaging the Music of John Coltrane” With the vision of Reggie Workman and Charles Tolliver Africa/Brass has afforded the uncommon opportunity for musicians to communally share the experience of performing Coltrane’s music and invoking his spirit. John-Carlos Perea, “Versions as Relations: Naima, John Coltrane, and Jim Pepper” This paper considers the original 1959 recording of “Naima” and the subsequent versioning of it by Jim Pepper as a sonification through which to amplify Pepper’s relationship to Coltrane via Pepper’s experiences through Southern Plains Intertribal powwow musical practices.   Keynote Address (5:20 pm) Archbishop Franzo King and members of the African Orthodox Church of John Coltrane “The Continued Relevance of John Coltrane” Theodore A. Harris, Coltrane’s Thunderclap, 1998, paper collage. 11X17in   ABOUT THE ART WORK Theodore A. Harris, Coltrane’s Thunderclap. 1998, paper collage, 11×17 in. Theodore A. Harris (1966-) is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and poet. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in private and public collections such as Libraries and Museum University of Delaware, Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, La Salle University Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, McGill University Visual Arts Collection, Center for Africana Studies; University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center Rare Books and Manuscript Library; University of Pennsylvania, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, and the Winston and Carolyn Lowe Collection. Harris is the co-founder of the Anti-Graffiti Network/Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Harris has also co-authored and authored books including Our Flesh of Flames (2019), Malcolm X as Ideology (2008) with Amiri Baraka, TRIPTYCH with Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman (2011), i ran from it and was still in it with Fred Moten (2007), and Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism (2017). He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics. LEARN MORE: THEODORE A. HARRIS – Home
Saturday,
Oct 10
Second Week DeadlineAcademic Calendar
NCR XVs Premier League Location: Wallis Annenberg Stadium
Coltrane at 100: Meditations / Infinity(7PM - 9PM) School of Music
Eclectic jazz musicians come together to honor John Coltrane: jazz innovator, spiritual icon of the Black Arts Movement and patron saint of the avant-garde. Meditations/Infinity comes to UCLA’s historic Schoenberg Hall. Featuring Camille Thurman-Greene Quartet String Quintet (Juliette Jones) Frank Lacy Quintet   Featuring: Frank Lacy, trombone, trumpet, French horn; Salim Washington, flute, tenor sax, oboe; Johnathan Blake, drums; Yayoi Ikawa, piano with special guests: Jacques Lesure, guitar; Steve Loza, trumpet; Cheryl Keyes, flute; Regina Carter-Garnett, violin   Theodore A. Harris, Coltrane’s Thunderclap, 1998, paper collage. 11X17in   ABOUT THE ART WORK Theodore A. Harris, Coltrane’s Thunderclap. 1998, paper collage, 11×17 in. Theodore A. Harris (1966-) is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and poet. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in private and public collections such as Libraries and Museum University of Delaware, Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, La Salle University Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, McGill University Visual Arts Collection, Center for Africana Studies; University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center Rare Books and Manuscript Library; University of Pennsylvania, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, and the Winston and Carolyn Lowe Collection. Harris is the co-founder of the Anti-Graffiti Network/Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Harris has also co-authored and authored books including Our Flesh of Flames (2019), Malcolm X as Ideology (2008) with Amiri Baraka, TRIPTYCH with Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman (2011), i ran from it and was still in it with Fred Moten (2007), and Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism (2017). He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics. LEARN MORE: THEODORE A. HARRIS – Home
Celebrate a pair of retrospectives featuring two prolific and trailblazing abstract artists, Huguette Caland and Mavis Pusey, with galleries open late and music in the courtyard. Food and drink will be available for purchase all night. This event is free and open to the public. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/fallcel26 Location: Hammer Museum
Sunday,
Oct 11
Curatorial assistant Jessi DiTillio leads a walk-through of Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images with Kiki Teshome, curatorial assistant, Studio Museum. Capacity is limited. Visitors will be admitted on a first come, first served basis. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/cwtmavis Location: Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Horszowski Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark(2PM - 4PM) Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
The program includes compositions by Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg, and Franz Schubert. Please visit the event website for full details and ticket information. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Exhibition curator Hannah Feldman leads a walk-through of Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/CWTHC Location: Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Monday,
Oct 12
Indigenous Peoples Day 2026Institute of American Cultures
This year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration will feature a banner display and Native community/cultural programming led by the American Indian Student Association (AISA). Location: Bruin Walk
UCLA AI ExchangeDigital & Technology Solutions
Join the UCLA community for a week of workshops, conversations, and hands-on sessions exploring how AI is changing teaching, research, learning, and work at UCLA. The program brings together a range of opportunities to learn about AI, explore new tools and applications, hear from UCLA peers and experts, and engage with the questions and possibilities emerging around AI. The week features programming from Google, AWS, Microsoft, UCLA Library, DataX, the Teaching & Learning Center, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and others. For Students: Explore new AI tools, build practical skills, and connect with peers and experts. For Faculty: Explore AI in teaching, research, academic writing, accessibility, and more. For Staff: Explore practical applications of AI for everyday work, productivity, and institutional workflows. View the full schedule and register: dts.ucla.edu/initiatives/ai/ucla-ai-exchange Location: UCLA Campus (Varies by Event)
Bruin MindFit is a mindful movement and meditation offering that teaches several effective stress management tools and is offered to UCLA faculty, staff, and students at no cost. I A 4-week on demand course that you can complete at your own pace. Learn and practice several stress management tools, including meditation, breathing (pranayama), basic yoga movement, resilience strategies, everyday mindfulness and more. Cultivate mindfulness, focus and balance, reframe your thoughts, and learn to let go. Sign up by by October 8th. Participants gain access the week of October 12th.
Bruin MindFit is a mindful movement and meditation course that teaches several effective stress management tools and is offered to UCLA faculty, staff, and students at no cost. Programs for every schedule this fall. Choose from Virtual, In-Person, and On-Demand options and enroll in as many as you’d like! Virtual Zoom Course starts 10/13/26. Program Dates: October 13 - November 5, 2026 Class Day and Time: Tuesdays OR Thursdays, 12:15 - 12:45p via Zoom Register for either day and attend the alternate day as needed. Recordings are shared via weekly emails if you happen to miss a class. Location: https://fitwell.recreation.ucla.edu/programs/bruin-mindfit
Investment Simulator - Money Matters(11AM - 3PM) Financial Wellness
Drop-in Mondays 11 AM - 3 PM Chat with our team, including a money expert with 20+ years of wealth management experience, play games, complete practical worksheets, win prizes, and more! Location: Strathmore 106
Geology Games Pop-up(12PM - 2PM) Library
Drop by the Geology Library Reading Room to play board games, make personalized buttons and check out Library collections! Games are a great way to meet and make connections with new people, especially for those new to campus. Staff will be available to help facilitate the games and all levels of experience are welcome! Location: Science and Engineering Library, 4697 Geology Building
The Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, in partnership with Livescu NNAI, Luskin Public Policy, and the Data Justice pillar of DataX, welcomes Prof. Francine Berman (UMass Amherst) in conversation on her new book Better Tech: Putting People First in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2026) with Prof. Julia Powles (UCLA). Brought to you by the Data Justice Pillar. Location: UCLA DataX, 3312 Murphy Hall
Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Want to learn the most effective search strategies? There’s much more to search than Google! Become a savvy searcher and learn more about the best places to search for the information you need. Join us for this workshop with library instructors to learn all about finding sources. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99902554343
Breaking Down Self Care(4PM - 5PM) Resilience In Your Student Experience (RISE) Center
How to Request Letters of Recommendation for Scholarships(5PM - 5:45PM) Center for Scholarships & Scholar Enrichment
Say you need a letter of recommendation for a scholarship or research opportunity, who do you ask? How do you ask? (And how should you *not* ask?) Learn effective strategies for approaching professors and requesting letters of recommendation via email for scholarship applications. Enrollment closes at 10:50am on the day of the workshop. Enrolled participants can access the Zoom link for this workshop in my.ucla.edu Academics -> Advising and Academic Services -> Workshops: https://be.my.ucla.edu/groupmanager/Events/Event/Reservations PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER FOR REMINDER EMAILS. At the beginning of the workshop, you must provide your UID number to verify your status as a UCLA student who is on the Workshop Roster. CSSE workshops are protected intellectual property and recording is not allowed.
Tuesday,
Oct 13
This session explores how values and affective learning goals can guide the design of AI-assisted assessments. We’ll consider what students should practice and develop for themselves, then define appropriate boundaries between human and AI contributions. Finally, we’ll use prompt constraints to generate assessment ideas that preserve those learning goals. Presenter: Kevin Chan, Associate Instructional Designer at the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center, TLC) Keywords: GenerativeAI, assessment design, AI in education, human centered learning, AI ethics Each academic quarter, the educational designers and developers of the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) offer via Zoom a weekly series of seven pop-up sessions - each just 10 minutes in length - on focused, specific topics related to course design, teaching, learning, and learning assessment. The additional “+10” in the series title refers to an optional 10 minutes that follow each presentation for Q&A and discussion. These 10 + 10 sessions will take place at 10am (PT) every Tuesday in the quarter, from Week 2 through Week 8. These sessions are open to all UCLA instructors—including faculty, lecturers, instructors of record, graduate student instructors, and postdoctoral scholars. Please direct any inquiries to instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu.
Connect w/ RISE @ Rieber(11AM - 12PM) Resilience In Your Student Experience (RISE) Center
Indigenous Peoples Day Language Event and CIRCLE Panel(12:15PM - 1:45PM) Institute of American Cultures
UCLA Department of Anthropology Discourse Lab Colloquium welcomes everyone to our Indigenous People's Day celebration. We will be hosting an informal roundtable discussion with faculty members from across the University who do language teaching, documentation, and reclamation work in Indigenous communities. Location: Haines Hall 352
AAP "Community of Scholars" Orientation(1PM - 2PM) AAP (Academic Advancement Program)
This is the "official" AAP New Student Orientation Workshop -Mandatory for students interested in becoming members of AAP LATE ARRIVALS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED
Movement and Meditation(1:15PM - 2PM) Resilience In Your Student Experience (RISE) Center
Mellon Mays / McNair / URFP Scholarship Info Session(2PM - 3PM) Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Learn about eligibility and the application steps for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, McNair Research Scholars Program, and Undergraduate Research Fellows Program. You could receive $3,000 - $17,000 for doing UCLA research and creative inquiry! Pizza will be served. Location: Powell Library CLICC C / 320 - https://bit.ly/urcworkshops
UCLA students, faculty and staff are invited to register for this workshop and discussion of generative AI, its impact on academic research and writing and comparison to traditional research methods. This 60-minute workshop will focus on understanding and contextualizing A.I.’s applications and limitations in research tasks, such as developing research topics and questions, identifying and summarizing scholarly sources and more. Instructors will also discuss various social and ethical issues related to AI use. This workshop is offered in person. Instructors: Michelle Brasseur, teaching and learning librarian for humanities and social sciences and Helen Song, instructional design and outreach specialist Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
You Belong at UCLA(4PM - 5PM) Resilience In Your Student Experience (RISE) Center
Join us for a Neurodiversity Empowerment workshop and explore your sense of belonging, learn about fostering connections and building community, and the importance of self-awareness. Location: RISE Center at LuValle Commons Basement Level
Taco Tuesday(6PM - 7:30PM) Residential Life
Join Faculty in Residence for brief talk over free tacos! Location: Rieber Living Learning Community Room
Wednesday,
Oct 14
Fall Quarter Drop-In Session(9AM - 4PM) Student Legal Services
Come by the Student Legal Services office or via zoom to ask legal questions. We provide legal counseling on: - **Landlord-Tenant Issues **Immigration Issues **Employment Issues **Family Law Issues **Criminal/traffic Matters **University-related concerns (Disciplinary, Title IX) **Personal Injury **And more! 9:00 am - 11:00 am and 1:00 pm - 4:00pm Location: A239 Murphy Hall - https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93503473690
Fall CPT Webinars (For F-1 Visa Students)(10AM - 11AM) Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars
UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly CPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more! From 10-11am via Zoom! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95322790676
This interactive training introduces instructors and instructional teams to practical ways of using AI and integrated accessibility tools in Bruin Learn to create more accessible course content. Participants will explore key digital accessibility principles, see live demonstrations of accessibility tools and workflows, and receive practical guidance for applying these tools to their own teaching practices. Hosted by DTS and the TLC, this remote session will be delivered via Zoom and will include opportunities for hands-on exploration, questions, and discussion. Location: https://survey.it.ucla.edu/jfe/form/SV_02J78putlAAdD82
Finding Sources at UCLA Library(11AM - 12PM) Library
Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Want to learn the most effective search strategies? There’s much more to search than Google! Become a savvy searcher and learn more about the best places to search for the information you need. Join us for this workshop with library instructors to learn all about finding sources. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99902554343
English Language Circle (October 14)(12PM - 1PM) Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars
Are you looking for a safe and supportive space to practice your English conversation skills? Check out Dashew Center's English Language Circle (ELC). Here you will have an opportunity to practice your English with other language learners. The circle is led by a native English speaker, who will help you become more confident in your speaking skills and who can answer your language and grammar questions.
URC-HASS Scholarship Info Session(12PM - 1PM) Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (URC-HASS) offers six scholarships for beginner through advanced research and creative inquiry in all quarters! At this info session, you will learn about eligibility, length of the programs, application steps, and resources to help you with your application. Location: Powell Library CLICC B / 320B - https://bit.ly/urcworkshops
Caregiving 101(1PM - 2PM) Bruin Resource Center
Join us for a Caregiving Workshop! This workshop will provide caregiving resources & IHSS support. Join us to learn about resources available to you & build community with other caregivers who understand the journey. Light lunch will be provided Location: Bruin Resource Center
Developing a GenAI Course Policy(1PM - 2PM) Teaching and Learning Center
This in-person workshop supports instructors in drafting a course policy on GenAI use that is aligned with their disciplinary learning goals and context. Following an overview of UCLA data on how students are using GenAI, participants will review example syllabus and editorial policies that speak to specific GenAI use cases. Finally, participants will consider their own needs for drafting a discipline-specific GenAI policy. This session is open to all instructors, TAs, and postdocs. Please contact instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu if you have any questions. Location: Powell Library, Room 186
GSRC Drop-in Hours: Teaching and Learning Center(1PM - 2PM) Graduate Student Resource Center
Meet the TLC’s Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement (GSPSE) team at the Graduate Student Resource Center (GSRC)! Chat with us about all of your TA training and other teaching-related professional development questions. Location: Graduate Student Resource Center (SAC B11)
An introduction to citation managers and the tool Zotero. Learn how to set up and begin using Zotero to manage and cite your sources! Instructor: Molly Hemphill, Health Research Methods Librarian
Mellon Mays and URFP Scholarships Info Session(3PM - 4PM) Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) is a two-year scholarship program ($17,000) designed for outstanding students in Mellon-designated humanities and humanistic social science fields who intend to pursue a PhD and a career in academia. Mellon Mays Fellows work closely with faculty advisors and graduate mentors to design and carry out an independent research project. The Undergraduate Research Fellows Program ($3,000) supports students doing a multi-quarter research or creative project under the mentorship of a UCLA faculty member during winter and spring quarters. At this info session, you will learn about eligibility, application steps, and resources to help you with your application for these scholarships. Location: Powell Library CLICC B / 320B - https://bit.ly/urcworkshops
Join us for the first of six workshops as part of the Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices series with Vicki Ray, a Los Angeles based composer and pianist, who will join Wendy Richman in a conversation about concert programming and commissioning new works. Concert Curation IS Composition! Every musician presenting a concert is: a composer! In this talk I’ll explore different ways to think about concert programming and how the works you program constitute a meta-composition. Using musical examples I’ll explore the way connections between worlds – musical and otherwise – can create fresh, interesting juxtapositions that challenge (and hopefully delight!) the performer as well as the listener. Folded into this approach is the opportunity to commission new works that can tie previously unrelated pieces together and expand the repertoire of our instrument. Bio Described as “phenomenal and fearless” Vicki Ray is a pianist, improviser and composer. She has commissioned and premiered countless new works by today’s leading composers. Ray is a founding member of Piano Spheres and was, for many years, the head of keyboard studies at the California Institute of the Arts where she was named the first recipient of the Hal Blaine Chair in Musical Performance. She has appeared on numerous international festivals and was a regular member of the faculty at the Bang On a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA. Ray has been featured on the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series as soloist and collaborative artist. Her widely varied performing and recording career covers the gamut of new and old music: from Boulez to Reich, Wadada Leo Smith to Beethoven. Notable recordings include the first Canadian disc of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the Blue Rider Ensemble, the premiere recordings of Steve Reich’s You Are (Variations) and the Daniel Variations with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the first recording of John Cage’s Europeras 3 and 4. Her recording of Cage’s The Ten Thousand Things on Microfest Records received 2013 Grammy nomination. Vicki can also be seen playing the chromelodeon in the Los Angeles based PARTCH ensemble. Vicki Ray is a Steinway artist. More about Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices The personality of Los Angeles’s new music scene mirrors its city’s culture and geography as a whole: equal parts diversity and decentralization, in a battle for recognition and relevance that crisscrosses 650 freeway miles. The Modal Interchange series casts a wide net around LA’s new music community, hosting a diverse group of individuals who might not otherwise share the same artistic and academic spaces, in a series of lecture-workshops geared to an audience of performers. Modal Interchange is a series of six workshops through 2026-27. Each workshop focuses on an element of 21st-century performing, programming, and music-making in the world of contemporary music, with special focus on the topics’ relevance in greater LA: histories of experimental music and the avant-garde, commissioning new works, concert programming, listening as an audience member, listening as a performer, score-reading and part-marking, learning and practicing contemporary works, improvisation practices, and arts activism. This series is conceived and hosted by violist Wendy Richman and produced in partnership with the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities. Dr. Richman is Lecturer in Performance Studies, Director of uclaFLUX, and a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble. For the full schedule, please visit our website: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/modal-interchange-conversations-on-21st-century-performance-practices/
Research and Creative Proposal Workshop(4PM - 5PM) Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Learn how to write a research or creative proposal for scholarship and project applications. This workshop is a great way to prepare for your Mellon Mays, McNair, or URFP scholarship application! Location: Powell Library CLICC B / 320B - https://bit.ly/urcworkshops
DAIS/AISC Fall Welcome(4PM - 6PM) Institute of American Cultures
Connect with fellow American Indian and Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and community members and share a meal to celebrate the start of the academic term. Free and open to all. Registration required. Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard
Secrets to Winning College Cash Part 2(5PM - 5:45PM) Center for Scholarships & Scholar Enrichment
Designed as a follow-up to Secrets to Winning College Cash Part 1, this workshop walks participants through the strategic process of conducting routine online searches for scholarships. Participants who wish to enroll in this workshop must attend Secrets to Winning College Cash 1 prior to this Workshop Date. Enrollment closes at 10:50am PT on the day of the workshop. Enrolled participants can access the Zoom link for this workshop in my.ucla.edu Academics -> Advising and Academic Services -> Workshops: https://be.my.ucla.edu/groupmanager/Events/Event/Reservations PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER FOR REMINDER EMAILS. At the beginning of the workshop, you must provide your UID number to verify your status as a UCLA student who is on the Workshop Roster. CSSE workshops are protected intellectual property and recording is not allowed.
California Education Learning Lab presents a high-energy, participatory debate on the purpose of higher ed in the age of AI, where everyone is welcome to speak, listen, and engage. Join us for a different kind of conversation about the purpose of higher education in the age of AI. Hosted by April Lawson of Insight Debate & Dialogue in partnership with the My Robot Teacher podcast, this high-energy, participatory debate invites attendees to explore a timely and potentially contentious question facing higher education. There will be no slate of experts at the front of the room. Instead, everyone present will have the opportunity to contribute. You are welcome to speak, listen, or simply take in the conversation. The goal is not necessarily to reach agreement, but to bring different perspectives into the open and engage thoughtfully across disagreement. Closer to the event, registrants will be invited to complete a brief survey to help select the specific resolution we’ll debate. Resolutions include statements such as “Higher education has become transactional rather than transformative” or “AI will do more harm than good in higher education.” Once selected, the final resolution will be announced and shared broadly in advance. This free event is open to Learning Lab's INSPIRE convening attendees and the broader UCLA/Los Angeles higher education community, including students, faculty and administrators, and other interested guests. No special expertise or preparation is required. Participants will come away with a model for a classroom, meeting, or town-hall ready format for discussing hot button topics in a constructive, meaningful, engaging, and safe way. Seats are limited: Advance RSVP is requested. Location: UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center
This workshop will describe literature reviews across multiple contexts and genres. The workshop will also cover strategies and best practices for note-taking, preparatory steps, writing process issues, and organization.
Part of: Archive Treasures Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program. Archive Treasures showcases works from UCLA Film & Television Archive’s extensive holdings, which comprise one of the largest moving image collections in the world. Included in this series will be deserving and rarely screened gems presented in original and restored prints. Location: Billy Wilder Theater