Week 2

This 30-minute interactive session explores why specific, criteria-aligned feedback supports learner motivation and improvement, and highlights practical strategies for delivering high-quality feedback efficiently at scale. Through guided reflection and discussion, participants will consider evidence-based feedback principles before viewing a brief demonstration of scalable grading practices in Gradescope, including rubric-based grading and AI-assisted answer grouping. This session may be especially useful for instructors teaching large classes or courses with limited grading support.

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Join Bay Area Bruins and fans for Bruins Night with the Golden State Warriors. This year's event will feature the game against the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center - Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM, April 7, 2026. The Kings will feature former UCLA players Russell Westbrook and Zach LaVine. (Russell won the NBA MVP award for the 2016-2017 season and Zach is a two time NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Champion.) Contact information - email and mobile number - will be collected during the purchase transaction to facilitate ticket distribution. Mobile ticket links will be provided closer to the game date. All sales are final and no refunds will be given. _Tickets sold for $95/ticket until Jan. 31,_ **_price increase to $105/ticket on Feb. 1._**

Take 20 minutes in your day to enjoy much-needed relaxation and calm. When registering, please enter "UCLA" under "organization." Monthly meditation is led by Michal Rinkevich (MBA '14) who has been practicing healing arts and meditation since 1995 and teaching since 2006.

It is often said that, “feedback is a gift.” But whether we are on the giving or receiving end, we don’t always feel that way about it. What if we became masterful at sharing our feedback with others in ways that truly occurred as a gift, coming from a place of advocacy? What if we became masterful at receiving feedback, leveraging any feedback we receive for our good and our growth? In this virtual session, career coach Amanda Jaggard will share practical principles for turning feedback into a non-negotiable tool for ourselves and our teams so that it truly is a gift we both receive and give. In this session, you will learn: \- The distinction between giving feedback and sharing your opinion. \- Clear strategies for getting the most valuable feedback possible \- Commitments to practice these new feedback skills to maximize your current growth

Join for a lively discussion with fellow Bruins (and a few Cal Bears too) of "Before the Coffee Gets Cold". This novel tells the story of a cafe where patrons can go back in time. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? This is a peer-led group and newcomers are always welcome.

This conference will gather a group of leading scholars to see where scholarship about the Revolution is on its 250th anniversary. Through their own research, they’ll address the many and exciting ways we’ve come to rethink this important event, including its broader continental and even global reach, and its racial and ideological underpinnings. Unlike a traditional academic conference, however, these talks will be addressed to a mostly non-academic audience of students and members of the public. In doing so, we hope to show non-scholars new ways historians are currently thinking about the meaning of this seminal event in U.S. and world history.

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This half-day symposium at UCLA will examine the intersection of sound and hate, highlighting how auditory experiences can propagate, resist, and reflect social animosities. Bringing together diverse perspectives from sound studies and related fields, the event will deepen understanding of how sound influences, challenges, and shapes the dynamics of hate in society. The keynote address, “Sectarian Reckonings: The Politics of Voice and Song in Post-Authoritarian Syria,” will be delivered by Shayna M. Silverstein, Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and faculty member of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program at Northwestern University. Her talk explores public reckonings with sectarian violence in Syria from the 2010s conflict to the precarious present, offering guided listening to sonic practices—from chant and song to rock and livestream audio culture—that respond to sectarianized hate, violence, and animosity. Additional speakers include UCLA School of Music Associate Professor Jenny Johnson, UCLA Initiative to Study Hate (ISH) Research Manager Dr. Amalia Mora, and the symposium’s curator Dr. Kathryn Huether (ISH and Leve Center for Jewish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow-Antisemitism Studies).

This half-day symposium at UCLA will examine the intersection of sound and hate, highlighting how auditory experiences can propagate, resist, and reflect social animosities. Bringing together diverse perspectives from sound studies and related fields, the event will deepen understanding of how sound influences, challenges, and shapes the dynamics of hate in society. The keynote address, “Sectarian Reckonings: The Politics of Voice and Song in Post-Authoritarian Syria,” will be delivered by Shayna M. Silverstein, Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and faculty member of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program at Northwestern University. Her talk explores public reckonings with sectarian violence in Syria from the 2010s conflict to the precarious present, offering guided listening to sonic practices—from chant and song to rock and livestream audio culture—that respond to sectarianized hate, violence, and animosity. Additional speakers include UCLA School of Music Associate Professor Jenny Johnson, UCLA Initiative to Study Hate (ISH) Research Manager Dr. Amalia Mora, and the symposium’s curator Dr. Kathryn Huether (ISH and Leve Center for Jewish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow-Antisemitism Studies).

This workshop providesThis workshop provides an overview on the various forms of academic dishonesty regarding plagiarism. Participants will learn when, where, and why it is important to cite properly. Students will also learn how to avoid plagiarism and the information presented will stress the need to attribute work to the original author and the potential outcomes for plagiarizing. Additionally, paraphrasing, and direct quoting will be discussed. ZOOM. Register through MyEvents on MyUCLA.

In person: Introduction by Associate Professor Josslyn Luckett, NYU Cinema Studies. Q&A with Luckett; filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura; film producer Karen L. Ishizuka, widow of Robert A. Nakamura and mother of Tadashi Nakamura; and Celine Parreñas Shimizu, dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Guest speaker This program is a continuation of Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Student Activism at UCLA, which celebrates the radical filmmaking legacy of UCLA’s affirmative action initiative, the Ethno-Communications Program (1969–1973). This iteration honors Ethno-Communications alumnus Robert A. Nakamura (1936–2025), who taught film at UCLA for over 30 years and was widely known as the “godfather of Asian American media.” A co-founder of the pioneering media organization Visual Communications, Nakamura co-directed a milestone feature-length film made by and about Asian Pacific Americans, Hito Hata: Raise the Banner (1980). Shaped by his internment at age six in the prison camp Manzanar during World War II, he transformed personal history into landmark films that helped change how Asian Americans are seen on-screen. Series programmed by Associate Professor Josslyn Luckett, NYU Cinema Studies, and Public Programmer Beandrea July. Notes written by Beandrea July.

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All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks program. Singin’ in the Rain U.S., 1952 Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds shine in perhaps the greatest Hollywood musical of all time. Propelled by a crackling script and exuberant song-and-dance routines, Kelly plays a silent movie star trying to make the leap to talkies, while Reynolds’ struggling chorus girl finds her entry into Hollywood no less complicated. With Donald O’Connor delivering the delirious gags, this timeless classic will leave you with a glorious feeling. 35mm, color, 103 min. Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Screenwriter: Betty Comden, Adolph Green. With: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds. Recommended for ages 6+ Part of: Family Flicks

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