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Grab life by the handlebars this May as we celebrate UCLA Bike Month! Come by our pit stop for refreshments and giveaways, and learn all about biking to campus as a healthier commute option that's greener for the environment. Location: NE Corner Westwood/Le Conte

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

Come to the RISE Center for a moment of stillness. Grab a cup of tea, meeting community members, and practice mindfulness, spirituality, thoughtfulness, and stillness. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Get ready to Ride & Thrive during UCLA Bike Month with a tune-up or other repairs provided by the UCLA Bike Shop and Velofix. Location: LuValle Commons

Who is the human? What is legitimate religion? Who is left out of these discourses? Questions of power, humanity, and alterity animate religious discourse and responses to oppression. Leveraging the Rastafari movement and interrogating religious racism this talk will allow us to grapple with 20th century Black religious discourses and their continued relevance for thinking about how to protect religious freedom in the contemporary moment. Location: Kaplan Hall, 365 - https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/XWs-v3EpTCCkPkxDfieXoA#/registration

Sessions can cover resume/cover letter development and review, help with job/internship search, or interview preparation. Location: Bruin Resource Center

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

Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jews and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after their attempted annihilation. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the survivors who lived through genocide and went on to wed military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—and shows how they helped shape the postwar world. The stories Judd tells capture how the exhilaration of the early romances coexisted with survivor's guilt, grief, and apprehension at the challenges of starting a new life in a new land. Robin Judd is a professor of History at The Ohio State University where she teaches courses in Holocaust studies, the history of antisemitism, and the history of leadership, and directs the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership in History program. She is the author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933) and Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust, which garnered two National Jewish Book Awards and was named a finalist for the 2024 Ohioana non-fiction award. In recognition of her work in Holocaust studies, Governor Dewine appointed her to Ohio’s Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission in 2021. Professor Judd is the Vice Chair of the Leo Baeck Institute’s Faculty Advisory Board and past President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Moderated by Jared McBride (UCLA) Location: 314 Royce Hall

Explore stress-management and burnout prevention strategies. Learn how to restore & repair after burnout with self-care Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3487584784

This workshop introduces students to research in the sciences, how to find a faculty research mentor, and opportunities for student researchers after joining a lab. Download a copy of our slide deck and learn more about our workshops on our website. Location: https://ucla.in/4jX79hU

Looking for an opportunity to polish your URW presentation? Join us for a DataX Presentation Feedback Session! This is a great chance to dry run your presentation before the official showcase and get helpful, constructive feedback from fellow students and faculty in a supportive environment. We can offer advice and suggestions on content clarity, visual design, public speaking, pacing, and more. Whether you’re looking to polish your slides, make your presentation more cohesive, or just get more comfortable with presenting to an audience, we’re here to help. Light refreshments will be provided as well! Location: 3312 Murphy Hall, DataX Impact Forum

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! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95322790676

Making the Most of Active Learning: Why Teaching Expertise Matters and How it Develops This interactive seminar will consider this question: What teaching expertise do faculty need and how do they cultivate it? Though most systems in higher education are built on the underlying assumption that disciplinary expertise is sufficient for effective teaching, considerable evidence refutes this assumption. As faculty take up the call to use active learning and other evidence-based strategies, what teaching expertise supports their success? This seminar will share findings from a suite of studies about the specialized teaching knowledge that college faculty rely on as they design and implement active-learning instruction in large classes. It will also share insights from a longitudinal study of teaching expertise development among early-career faculty. Faculty built some types of specialized teaching knowledge by seeking and valuing evidence of their students’ thinking. Other knowledge, such as knowledge of how people learn, proved harder to develop, even for instructors highly involved in teaching professional development. The seminar will include time to consider implications of these findings for faculty, departments, and institutions. Bio: Tessa Andrews, PhD, is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Genetics and the Director of the Scientists Engaged in Education Research (SEER) center at the University of Georgia. She earned a PhD in Biological Sciences at Montana State University, with a focus on conservation genetics and education research. Her research group investigates questions aimed at increasing the use of evidence-based teaching in undergraduate STEM education, including questions about faculty thinking, faculty practices, and departmental culture and practices. Dr. Andrews’ work has been funded by multiple grants, including an NSF CAREER award. She is a Monitoring Editor for CBE-Life Sciences Education and a Working Group Leader for the Accelerating Systemic Change Network. Location: Young Research Library Conference Room 11360

Want to start your business but don't know where to start? This info session is your chance to get the inside scoop on our upcoming one-day entrepreneurship program designed specifically for undocumented students, alumni, and recent grads at UCLA. We’ll talk about what to expect, how to sign up, and how you could win a share of $525 in prizes at the pitch competition! Zoom link will be provided after signing up. RSVP now: https://tinyurl.com/UCLAINFO1 Location: https://lu.ma/7fvgb4mg

Please join us when Inés Valdez, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, presents her book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This event is cosponsored by the Latina Futures 2050 Lab. Location: CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall

Get ready to Ride & Thrive during UCLA Bike Month with a tune-up or other repairs provided by the UCLA Bike Shop and Velofix. Location: Court of Sciences (North End)

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.

Grey Literature is frequently defined by what it is not – “grey literature is anything that is not a journal and not a book.” That leaves a great deal of room for ambiguity when looking for grey literature sources. Do I need to check government documents and advocacy white papers and industry reports and trial registries? More than that? UCLA science librarians will help mitigate that confusion and focus your search! This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructors: Hannah Sutherland, Open Science and Collections Librarian Robert Johnson, Clinical and Research Support Librarian Location: https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibitions/the-grey-area-exploring-grey-literature-05-14-25/

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

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

Professor William Gow (CSU Sacramento) will have a discussion with filmmaker and professor Renee Tajima-Peña about his new book, Performing Chinatown (Stanford University Press, 2024), which “retells the long-overlooked history of the ways that Los Angeles Chinatown shaped Hollywood and how Hollywood, in turn, shaped perceptions of Asian American identity.” Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Level A, Distinctive Collections Classroom

In her conversation with George Dutton, professor in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Quê Mai will share the moments that defined her as a writer, what compelled her to document the impact of the war, how she found healing via storytelling, and her mission to present Viet Nam as a country with more than 4000 years of history and culture. Location: 10383 Bunche Hall

Don’t miss our annual concert under the stars in the Fowler amphitheater with Mariachi de Uclatlán—the first mariachi ensemble to be established at an academic university. Under the tutelage of Grammy-winning musical director Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán, the ensemble is celebrated around the world for its exceptional legacy of passionate musical excellence. Join us in this great cultural tradition as the group presents the music of influential Mexican composers. Fowler Out Loud is an evening concert series that invites UCLA students from various disciplines to perform at the museum. Location: The Fowler Museum at UCLA - Fowler Outdoor Amphitheater

The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and Luskin Center for Innovation invite you to a screening of A Decent Home, a feature­length documentary addressing class and economic inequity that features the lives and challenges of mobile home park residents in securing affordable housing. Discussion and Q&A with Director Sara Terry, California Director Miguel Miguel of the Sierra Club, and Assistant Professor Jose Loya will touch upon the film and Miguel and Loya's research on equitable home financing, mortgage disparities, and barriers to homeownership for communities of color. 2355 Public Affairs Building, Food provided Location: 2355 Public Affairs Building

Please join us at the inaugural Latino Policy Day! This event will introduce the UCLA community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni) to groundbreaking work that the Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) has supported in the areas of housing and homeownership, education, and immigration and health. Location: Hershey Hall, Hershey Salon

CAPS Drop-In Hours provide free, confidential, brief consultations for UCLA undergraduate and graduate students that identify as undocumented or come from mixed-status families. During the visit, a specialized counselor can help you to explore resources, assess your mental health, and when needed, connect you to ongoing CAPS counseling, and other services. Location: Undocumented Student Program office - Student Activities Center B52

The Career Center is excited to announce our “Transfer Pop-Ins” at the Transfer Student Center (TSC). These are your golden 15-minute slots to get personalized, one-on-one career advice that caters specifically to your unique journey as a transfer student from UCLA Career Counselors. Location: Transfer Student Center (Kerckhoff 128)

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

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

In today's fast-paced world, understanding the intricate connection between neurodiversity, mental health, and self-care is more important than ever. This interactive workshop is designed to explore the unique experiences of individuals with diverse neurological conditions and how these experiences intersect with mental health and overall well-being. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Where can your writing and research interests go beyond a field-specific journal article or academic conference presentation? Writing for non-academic publications offers graduate students the opportunity to flex their creative muscles and develop a broader audience for their work. This workshop will help orient students within the world of non-academic writing, providing guidance on where to publish, how to translate complex ideas for a general audience and strategies for writing a pitch letter to a non-academic publication.

Are you a Senior & Still looking for Employment? Are you a Master's Student about to graduate looking for career opportunities? Then this is the Career Event for you! The UCLA Career Center is proud to present the Spring 2025 GET HIRED UCLA: Senior & Master's Student In-Person Job Fair! This event is a targeted event looking to connect graduating UCLA Seniors and Master's students and will have Employers who are hiring for full-time positions NOW! Join us on May 15th In-Person from 4:00-7:00 PM & connect with some of the top employers looking for the best UCLA has to offer! Location: Ackerman Grand Ballroom Location: Ackerman Grand Ballroom

Reflect, dream, and inspire the person you're becoming. Write a postcard to yourself — talk about your goals, your dreams, your biggest worries, or just what’s happening in your life right now. We'll hold onto it and send it your way later this summer. Stop by, grab a postcard, and leave a little time capsule for future you. All materials provided. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

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

American Collegiate Rowing Association National Championship (ACRA) Location: Oak Ridge, TN

This conference will be held via Zoom. Please visit our website for the list of speakers, program schedule and to register. Organized by Robert N. Watson (University of California, Los Angeles), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), and Todd Borlik (Purdue University).California boasts itself as a hub for transitioning energy from fossil fuels to renewable sources such as wind, water, and solar power. Taking this local, contemporary perspective as its departure point, this conference looks to the past and a deep history of energy transitions (and additions) in order to better understand how to negotiate this switch. We will convene scholars around the topics of “energy,” “extraction,” and “exploitation,” in the period we are calling “long modernity” (16th–21st century). This conference brings together diverse disciplines to unpack the complex dynamics that accompany energy regime change as expressed by technological development and represented in creative media that span the centuries of long modernity and that connect the local to the global, the past to the present. We seek to understand how an energy transition might conserve, rather than ravage, the environment and species by understanding how energy infrastructures affect earth and its ecosystems Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/16-Z8Yv_S0y3k18NdEb-Ew#/registration

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

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.* Meeting ID: 918 3367 1204 Passcode: 051779 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 16. You are welcome to attend one, two, three, or all sessions.

How Social Media Shapes Us and Our Enjoyment of the Mundane—And How to Reclaim It Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

For our 28th year, Bruin Belles Service Association is proud to present Players Leading Active Youth Day, also known as P.L.A.Y. Day. This event will bring together UCLA Athletics and Bruin Belles for a day of learning and fun with underserved, underprivileged youth in the LA area. Youth from K-8th grade will be bused in to UCLA for a day consisting of various games, healthy food, Q&A sessions, and Bruin Spirit! Over the course of the many activities planned throughout the day, the UCLA athletes get to be role models for the children—promoting the pursuit of higher education and healthy lifestyles. Location: Intramural Fields

Join the Transfer Student Alumni Network & the Transfer Student Center for a networking event at the Alumni Center. Refreshments will be served! Location: James West Alumni Center

Join the Learning Centers for a Creative Wellness Sampler! Head to the sunset village lawn to enjoy painting on easels, interacting with therapy dogs, and a Gentle Yoga Flow & Relaxation class led by a UCLA Rec Yoga Teacher. Location: Sunset Village Lawn

Copresented with the UCLA Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and the Schoenberg at 150 Festival Celebrating Arnold Schoenberg's 150th birthday, join composer Tod Machover as he discusses his innovative new opera Schoenberg in Hollywood with conductor Neal Stulberg, director Karole Armitage, and Arnold Schoenberg’s son, Larry Schoenberg, moderated by UCLA Musicology Professor Joy Calico. The opera, making its West Coast premiere at the UCLA Nimoy Theater later that evening, explores the fascinating journey of the Austrian-born composer during his time in Los Angeles, where he navigated the tension between his artistic vision and Hollywood's cinematic allure. This panel discussion at the Hammer is free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis. For tickets and more information about the Schoenberg in Hollywood performance at the Nimoy, visit schoolofmusic.ucla.edu. Location: hammer museum

Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, April 15 at 12:00 noon. Seating at the Clark Library is limited, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes. This concert will feature an all-Brahms program. Please visit the event website for full details. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Dzi Croquettes Brazil, 2009 Dzi Croquettes is a documentary co-directed by Raphael Alvarez and Tatiana Issa about the Croquettes, a groundbreaking, hugely influential queer performance troupe who carved out both rich personal lives and an internationally celebrated career against the backdrop of Brazil’s fall to fascism in the 1960s. Somewhat inspired by the Cockettes (the San Francisco-based queer performance collective from the late 1960s), the Croquettes blended Broadway, James Brown, bossa nova, old Hollywood musicals and queer innovation into a potent pushback on the bloodshed and political repression that was enveloping their country. Now largely lost to history, the troupe briefly spun the world on its glittering fingers.—guest programmer Ernest Hardy DCP, color, in English, French and Portuguese with English subtitles, 110 min. Directors: Raphael Alvarez, Tatiana Issa. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

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