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At the October 2024 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium, participants discussed how to create enduring public benefits from hosting major worldwide events in Los Angeles. The UCLA Los Angeles Transportation Forum will gather attendees to continue the conversation, understanding areas of progress and what else needs to be done in two legacy areas: enhancing LA’s transit system and universal access including fixing the city’s sidewalks. The Forum will also include a session on the late Donald Shoup’s impact on practice. Location: The California Endowment

During this drop-in, CAE Housing Accommodations staff are happy to meet with students to answer any questions or concerns you may have about accommodated housing at UCLA. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3826085082

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Come join RISE for a free, one-hour workshop from Project UnLonely that bridges creative expression with meaningful connection-building! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Come to the RISE Center for a moment of stillness with our sound & meditation session. Grab a cup of tea, practice mindfulness, thoughtfulness, and share community with a mini soundbath Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join us for a collaborative workshop preparing for your transition after graduation. Financial Wellness Program and Basic Needs at Strathmore will share budget planning, apartment hunting tools, and community basic needs resources.

Join CAPS & SwD for a parenting and caregiving students support group where you can find a space for connecting, pausing, and being present. Location: https://tinyurl.com/SupportMay20

Please join us for the "Empowered Teaching: Ungrading 101” workshop, hosted by the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) and facilitated by Caroline Kong and Sammy Solis. In this workshop, participants will explore “ungrading,” a framework that eliminates or greatly minimizes the use of assigned points or letter grades. Ungrading is a potentially transformative framework for instructors and students that emphasizes student learning rather than grades. Participants will identify the differences between grading and assessment and distinguish between different types of assessments. Finally, participants will learn about different strategies for ungrading, including considerations for different class sizes and disciplines, and will also troubleshoot obstacles to implementing ungrading. The event will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, from 12 pm to 1 pm in 21570 Young Research Library. All instructors, TAs, postdocs, and instructional support staff are welcome to attend. Lunch will be served. Please register by close of business on Tuesday, May 13. For questions, please contact edp@teaching.ucla.edu. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL), Room 21570

Bruin Love Station is a mobile cart that offers free safer sex supplies, Narcan, fentanyl test strips and opportunities for students to converse with trained peers and professional staff. Brought to you by the Health Education and Resource Team (HEART), a program of The Ashe Center Location: Bruin Walk

Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences What explains the contents of political belief systems? A widespread view is that they derive from abstract values like equality, tolerance and authority. Here, David Pinsof challenges this view, arguing instead that belief systems derive from political alliance structures that vary across nations and time periods. When partisans mobilize support for their political allies, they generate patchwork narratives that appeal to ad-hoc and often incompatible moral principles. In the first part of the talk, Pinsof will explain how people choose their allies and how they support their allies using propagandistic tactics. In the second part, he will show how these choices and tactics give rise to political alliance structures with their strange bedfellows and the idiosyncratic contents of belief systems. He proposes that if Alliance Theory is correct, then political psychology needs a radically different approach—one in which belief systems arise not from deep-seated moral values but from ever-shifting alliances and rivalries. This talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will be served. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) - https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QNHEbogyQGWtTlo_qcDjFQ

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Take some time to relax, stretch, and breathe through movement and meditation. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Copresented by the UCLA Department of Art From his drawings to his installation works, artist Cosmo Whyte frequently draws upon his Caribbean roots through both material and image. In this talk, Whyte will share how he investigates the broad complexities of Black diasporic and migrant experiences to create work that feels simultaneously familiar and dislocating while reflecting the multiplicity and fluidity of identity. Whyte is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and has had recent solo exhibitions at The Arts Club of Chicago, ICA San Diego, and MOCA Georgia. Location: hammer museum

Calling all slaysians and divas for a free drag show on the Hill!! UCLA Residential Life is proud to partner with Send Noodz, a local AAPI drag show, to host Send Noodz on the Hill! Be prepared for some amazing performances from Asian American and Pacific Islander drag artists and even walk the catwalk in our audience runway! Category is Chosen Family: Queer Asian Joy! RSVP now! Limited tickets available.

Enhance your teaching skills and streamline your grading in Bruin Learn! This session is designed primarily for TAs and will cover creating and grading assignments and discussions, navigating the Gradebook, and providing student extensions and accommodations. This event is co-sponsored by the Teaching & Learning Center and Bruin Learn Center of Excellence.

Pause. Notice. Be. Explore grounding techniques and tools that can be useful for stress management. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

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. All of our ELC sessions will take place on Zoom this spring 2025. Space is limited to 20 participants per session. Participants are welcome to enjoy their lunch during these sessions.

For years, the Astrophysics Data System has served researchers in the fields of astronomy and physics. Recognizing the value of this portal, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and NASA have developed SciX (Science Explorer) as the future portal for scientific information literature and discovery. Expanding out from physics and astronomy, SciX serves all fields of NASA research, including astronomy, earth science, heliophysics, physics and planetary science. A one-stop-shop, SciX links publications to their associated preprints, data, software and other author or publisher provided information. This workshop will outline the importance of SciX as a unifying interdisciplinary database and provide participants with an overview of how to navigate its many powerful features, including search features specific to the fields this portal supports. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Hannah Sutherland, Open Science and Collections Librarian Location: https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibitions/from-ads-to-scix-an-intro-to-navigating-science-explorer-for-earth-and-space-science-research-05-21-25/

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

The mindful writing retreat will integrate simple techniques from mindfulness to support the writing process and cultivate an approach to writing that fosters balance, self-care, and well-being. Please bring a current writing project because much of the retreat time will be allocated for writing. All sessions will be conducted remotely via Zoom. There are four total sessions this Spring Quarter: April 23, April 30, May 9, and May 21. You are welcome to attend one, two, three, or all sessions.

During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To join these sessions, you can use the Zoom link included here or use the Zoom Meeting ID 966 7564 1305. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96675641305

UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly OPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98199114498

Take a break with Wellness Wednesday! Join us in RISE to relax, recharge, and get creative with easy, self-guided activities like essential oils, journal prompts, and art projects. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join the RISE Center for Books and Bonding every Wednesday. RISE will be providing the books and there will be no assigned readings, so please stop by if you are interested. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Presenter: Marilyn Gray, Director, Graduate Writing Center This workshop will give an overview of the dissertation requirement in terms of structure, process, and role in one's career trajectory. The workshop will address the dissertation from multiple angles to deepen attendees' understanding of decisions and choices around the planning and execution of the dissertation.

Global Bruins! The UCLA Dashew Center and UCLA Study Abroad invite you to join this special event! Whether you are an international student/scholar or have studied abroad, we would like to celebrate you, and the class of 2025! *Register for this event in advance (space is limited) Location: De Neve Room

You’re invited to the AI to Advance Biology Symposium, a new collaboration between DataX and the UCLA Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences (QCBio). Themes include: -AI for understanding gene expression and ‘omic data -AI for exploiting protein interaction networks -AI for exploring molecular and cellular dynamics -AI for imaging cells, tissues, developing organisms We are soliciting titles and abstracts for lightning talk submissions. Confirmed speakers include: Harold Pimentel, Assistant Professor in Computational Medicine Hosein Mohimani, Associate Professor of Computational Medicine Jason Ernst, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Computer Science Neil Lin, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Pavak Shah, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Peipei Ping, Professor of Physiology, Medicine/Cardiology Xia Yang, Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology Location: 3312 Murphy Hall, DataX Impact Forum

Join us in remembering those we have lost so that their sacrifices might never be forgotten. Attend the UCLA Memorial Day Ceremony to honor courageous Bruins who have sacrificed their lives in U.S. military service in defense of our freedom. The Ceremony is on Thursday, May 22 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM on the UCLA campus. The ceremony will include a performance of the national anthem, presentation of the colors by our color guard and short remarks. Please RSVP by Thursday, May 15.

Humanities Technology (HumTech)--HumTech is developing an AI Toolkit in collaboration with their graduate student RITC's, Research and Instructional Technology Consultants who provide both instructional and research support. Join this workshop to hear about resources such as AI best practices in the classroom, the ethics of AI use, sample AI-based activities and lesson plans, and AI-based assignments and assessments.

Co-presented by UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health. Enjoy Mindful Awareness Meditation in person every Thursday in the Billy Wilder Theater! Every session is also broadcast live right here on the Hammer's website. Whether you participate in person or online, Mindful Awareness Meditation is offered every Thursday at 12:30 PM. To join the livestream, simply visit this page each week on Thursdays at 12:30 PM and click the Play button that will appear in the center of the livestream screen below. Mindful awareness meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half-hour weekly sessions are open to people of all levels of experience. Sessions are open to people at all experience levels and are led by Diana Winston, Director of UCLA Mindful, Allyson Pimentel, Co-Director of Mindful USC, and other instructors from UCLA Mindful. Sessions are also simulcast live online at hammer.ucla.edu. Past audio sessions are available on the UCLA Mindful website and on the UCLA Mindful App. Listen to the session from Thursday, January 9. Location: hammer museum

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Not too sure about the future? Are things not going according to plan? Join this workshop and learn about finding clarity and contentment while you are on your journey. Sidenote: 1 copy of Jordan Lee Dooley's book will be raffled! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Speaker: Dr. Matt Lodder This program is offered as part of the Michael and Susan Kahn Political Cartoon Collection Lecture Series. The event will be held in the Charles E. Young Research Library Distinctive Collections Classroom and also simultaneously broadcast via zoom. This series is made possible through funds gifted by Michael and Susan Kahn in support of their recently donated world-class collection of political cartoons. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library Distinctive Collections Classroom - https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P-KIyzZySk-Sm634k73IsQ#/registration

Join us for Twenties Talk, a weekly space to navigate friendships, dating, mental well-being, and life’s transitions in your twenties. Engage in meaningful discussions, hear from guest experts, and connect with a supportive community—plus, enjoy free pizza and refreshments! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Presenter: Marilyn Gray, Director, Graduate Writing Center. This workshop gives an overview of organization, time management, writing process issues and writing strategies. Recommended for people in the early stages of the dissertation, but useful for all stages.

Submissions for our Envelope Magazine of 2025 are now open! Envelope is an Art & Writing Magazine featuring creative work from UCLA's International Student, Scholar, and Staff community. We hope to publish this next volume of work by Fall 2025. The theme for the 2025 volume is: Connecting Across Cultures. Who is eligible to participate? Anyone who identifies with the UCLA International community (students, staff, faculty, scholars) both at UCLA and UCLA Extension, is welcome to submit work for consideration. Each person can submit up to 2 entries. How to Submit your Art? use the Submission Form in the event website (Submissions are due 5/23/25 at 11:59 PM PT).

Empower yourself as a community member in understanding suicide and supporting prevention efforts outside mental health settings. Participants will get a free RISE North Face Backpack! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Nadine is a RISE Center Health and Wellbeing Coordinator Specialist who serves all UCLA students, but also specifically serves neurodivergent students. If you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, she's here for you. In-person Option: Please come by the RISE Center anytime between 1-3 pm on Fridays. No RSVP required. Virtual Option: Please pre-schedule your virtual appointment by clicking the RSVP button. *please note: this virtual resource is meant to serve as a substitution for students who are unable to come to the RISE Center.* Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Throughout the history of Jainism, one of the world’s oldest living religions, Jain women have played a crucial role. Jain renouncers, whose self-denying lifestyle is revered as the highest ideal, are predominantly female, while Jain laywomen tend to be significantly more religiously active than their male counterparts. In this symposium, speakers will provide a range of perspectives on human and divine womanhood in Jain life and thought. Talks will cover the definition of gender in Jain philosophical texts, Jain goddess-worship and changing gender roles in the contemporary Jain diaspora. Location: Hershey Hall Salon - https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/Y2A9Oe_VQgqc6MJ1Ttq9mA#/registration

Considered the godfather of Asian American journalism, K.W. (short for Kyung Won) Lee's illustrious career as the first Korean American journalist has profoundly shaped the Korean American community consciousness and activism. K.W. Lee's family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to The K.W. Lee Center for Leadership, https://www.kwleecenter.org/. Location: Oxford Palace Hotel, 745 South Oxford Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90005

The UCLA Financial Aid and Scholarships Office will be closed on Monday, May 26, 2025 in Observance of the Memorial Day holiday. We will resume to regular operating hours on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Location: A129 Murphy Hall

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Successful strategies to create sustainable work/life balance, get work done, and reduce procrastination stress. Topics include balancing work and self-care, how to approach work when your motivation is already on summer vacation, and how to learn to plan and accurately judge the time needed to complete work of any size. We will look at common pitfalls that crush motivation and leave you avoiding things you "should" be getting to. Learn to be compassionate to yourself while being accountable. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level