Week 10

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.

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Are you applying to the Public Affairs major this year? Join us at the Public Affairs Major Application Information Session to learn about the major application eligibility criteria and application process! The major application information sessions are open to students who are applying to the Public Affairs major this Winter 2026. All Major Application Information Sessions are the same. Please register to attend the session that best fits your schedule. Access the major application information on our website at: https://luskin.ucla.edu/undergraduate-program/public-affairs-major-admissions/current-students#toggle-id-4 Questions? For questions, contact the Public Affairs Undergraduate Program via MyUCLA Message Center at https://luskin.ucla.edu/undergraduate-program/contact-us.

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Join us for our bi-weekly community meetings! A space to foster our system-impacted and formerly incarcerated scholars to connect, build community, and access resources.

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Have specific questions about your research journey? Join the Undergraduate Research Center for the Sciences for office hours with one of our directors.

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FITWELL Talks: Conversations with UCLA Health experts on the latest wellbeing research, practical recommendations, and more. Just thirty minutes via Zoom over your lunch hour. Join live, listen in, and come ready with questions. Take good care. March 2026: FITWELL Talks: Food for Thought with Dr. Lawrence Taw, UCLA Health This presentation will describe inflammation from a Chinese medicine perspective and provide guidelines for specific foods to eat and avoid to reduce your risk for inflammation.

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The Bruin Love Station (BLS) is mobile cart that offers free safer-sex supplies, Narcan, fentanyl test strips and opportunities for students to converse with trained peers and professional staff. Students are free to stop by to pick up any of our supplies.

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Please join us for the first Dialogue across Difference Faculty Fellows Program Information Session hosted by the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center and the UCLA Dialogue across Difference Initiative on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 4-5pm on Zoom. For more information about the program, visit https://teaching.ucla.edu/programs/dad-faculty-fellows/ Please contact instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu if you have any questions.

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Come join Bruin Alumni and Friends for a fun and relaxing discussion of books. We try to curate a wide variety of genres (all recommended by our own members) to accommodate all tastes and to encourage each other to read something we wouldn't on our own. We would love to have you join us. All are welcome! March: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Please email bkronbeck@social.rr.com to be added to the waitlist for the South Bay Book Club.

Drop in for students or faculty to request support for an academic accommodation concern. These sessions are held by a CAE Disability Specialist who may or may not be a student's assigned Disability Specialist and therefore who may need to follow up with a student's assigned Disability Specialist for the specific question or concern in mind.

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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.

Don't miss the next topic in the Teaching and Learning Center's GenAI Workshop Series. During this In-Person workshop, we will explore and discuss: -The role of AI-supported knowledge construction in enhancing student engagement and deeper learning. -How Google NotebookLM can be used to curate, organize, and connect course materials into interactive knowledge bases. -Strategies for involving students in co-creating and expanding shared AI-assisted notebooks as part of their learning process. -Examples of how NotebookLM can support collaborative inquiry, reflection, and critical discussion in academic settings. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: -Explain how creating shared or individual knowledge bases in Google NotebookLM can enhance student engagement and active learning. -Demonstrate how to organize readings, notes, and resources in NotebookLM to scaffold knowledge building across a course or project. -Design learning activities that engage students in analyzing, connecting, and synthesizing information using NotebookLM. -Integrate NotebookLM into classroom or online environments to promote collaborative inquiry and reflective dialogue. -Evaluate ethical and pedagogical considerations when using AI-generated insights in shared student learning spaces.

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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!

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Join us for a space of connecting, pausing and community.

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Join us on Thursday, March 12 from 12-1 pm at La Kretz Garden Pavilion for another installment of Botany Brown Bag. Vikram Tamboli will give a talk titled "Seeds of Power: Poisoning, Ritual Dance and Afro-Indigenous Knowledge in the Americas." "Seeds of Power" restrings the frayed history and geography of an obscure technology, ankle rattles and girdles made of toxic seeds of the Thevetia or yellow oleander plant. At least since the sixteenth century, people of Indigenous and African ancestry have used these seeds in a variety of ceremonial dances from Amazonia to Mesoamerica. Partial knowledge and material evidence of these seeds and rattles circulated through accounts of travelers and explorers, early modern herbals, and cabinets of curiosity and, by the nineteenth century, reached museum and herbarium collections across the globe. The story of these Thevetia seed rattles emerged through Dr. Tamboli's research on the Afro-Indigenous politics of assault in the Guianas for his book manuscript 'Black Powers and Bush Work: A history of trafficking ideas in Amazonia and the Caribbean, 1722-2022'. This talk gives an overview of the new project and offers some preliminary reflections on the rattles that are housed in U.S. collections and recent conversations with the Akawaio community members in Guyana. Vikram Tamboli is currently a fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and creator and co-director of the Healing and harming garden at UCLA. Make sure to bring your lunch! This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required!

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Join the Career Center for Virtual a 15 minute drop-in session; Sessions can cover resume/cover letter development and review, help with job/internship search, or interview preparation.

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When sharing data, researchers are often told be “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”. But what does this actually mean? How can researchers ensure their data complies with funder and publisher requirements and mandates while respecting data sovereignty, self-determination and privacy? Is “FAIR data” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) the same thing as “open data”? This workshop will delve into these difficult questions and discuss how pairing the technical framework of FAIR Principles and the ethical framework of CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance can help ensure responsible stewardship of your research data. Instructors: Hannah Sutherland and Shelby Hallman

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Join the TLC for TA and postdoc drop-in hours, social grading edition! Work through end-of-quarter grading while enjoying refreshments and building community with your fellow TAs. TLC staff members from the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement (GSPSE) team will also be available to support you.

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Join us for a low-key study hangout designed for UCLA students who care for family members. Come study, take a break, or simply enjoy a supportive space with others who understand caregiving responsibilities.

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Come ready to discuss your favorite book! A book club-style meeting where everyone can bring their favorite books to recommend to fellow Bruins. There will be a raffle at the end for a gift card to a local, independently owned bookstore, allowing a lucky Bruin to purchase a recommended book (or not)! The room reservation is for two hours, but we may end earlier depending on the discussion.

Hosted by the Long Beach Fire Department and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), this special workshop will equip Bruins with the skills and confidence to protect themselves and assist others during natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and wildfires. The workshop will be held at the Long Beach Health Department's training facility at 3861 Worsham Avenue and is limited to just 50 participants.

Groundbreaking and boundary-crossing violin virtuoso Gilles Apap and UCLA Head of Piano Inna Faliks perform beloved violin and piano music of Mozart and Brahms. Star string colleagues—violinist Varty Manouelian, violist Che-Yen (Brian) Chen and cellist Jeffrey Ho—join for the exuberant Piano Quintet in E-flat Major by Robert Schumann. Space is limited for this free event and registration is required. See full details on our website.

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Made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment In-person: In person: Q&A (after episode 1) with director Debra Granik and Coss Marte, owner of CONBODY, moderated by Distinguished Professor Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA Department of History. 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. North American premiere of new director’s cut Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Conbody vs Everybody follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned? Episode 1 As Conbody’s profile rises with increased media attention, Coss works to find investors and secure a permanent space. DCP, color, 62 min. Episode 2 Conbody trainer Shane hits a setback and Coss and the team pitch in to help. DCP, color, 62 min. Episode 3 Syretta starts as a trainer at Conbody after her recent return home from prison. Coss supports his younger brother’s first run for City Council. DCP, color, 67 min. Director: Debra Granik With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher. —Public Programmer Beandrea July Part of: Debra Granik Presents: Conbody vs Everybody

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16th ANNUAL SKETCH TO SCREEN COSTUME DESIGN PANEL Celebrating the 2026 Academy Award®? nominees for Best Costume Design: Miyako Bellizzi: Marty Supreme Ruth E. Carter: Sinners Kate Hawley: Frankenstein Deborah L. Scott: Avatar: Fire and Ash Malgosia Turzanska: Hamnet in conversation with Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Ph.D. Director, David C. Copley Center for Costume Design

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Made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment In-person: post-screening Q&A with director Debra Granik and Coss Marte, owner of CONBODY. 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. New director’s cut Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Conbody vs Everybody follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned? Episode 1 As Conbody’s profile rises with increased media attention, Coss works to find investors and secure a permanent space. DCP, color, 62 min. Episode 2 Conbody trainer Shane hits a setback and Coss and the team pitch in to help. DCP, color, 62 min. Episode 3 Syretta starts as a trainer at Conbody after her recent return home from prison. Coss supports his younger brother’s first run for City Council. DCP, color, 67 min. Director: Debra Granik With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher. —Public Programmer Beandrea July Part of: Debra Granik Presents: Conbody vs Everybody

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Bruin Family Socials are events that bring UCLA to neighborhoods around the world. Providing an opportunity for attendees to engage with one another on a regional level, Bruin Family Socials foster connections and relationships within the greater Bruin community. Historically, Bruin Family Socials have taken place over the course of one weekend each year. During spring 2023, these events transitioned to a year-round model that accommodates a variety of activities and locations, ultimately allowing for added flexibility and more opportunities to build community than ever before. We hope you will join us at an event near you!

UCLA Alumni is hosting a Pre-Meet Party prior to the UCLA Gymnastics meet vs. Utah at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, March 14, 5–6:30 p.m. Join UCLA alumni, fans, and friends for a Pre-Meet Party featuring a great meal and get in the spirit before the Bruins face former Pac-12 rival Utah!

Made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment 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. North American premiere of new director’s cut Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Conbody vs Everybody follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned? Episode 4 Coss celebrates five years home from prison. The team changes locations and new trainers join the team. Coss grows increasingly frustrated with reluctant investors. Includes an appearance by late actor Michael K. Williams. DCP, color, 68 min. Episode 5 Coss and the CONBODY team navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests as they take hold in New York City. Coss’ brother takes another run at City Council. Coss and his girlfriend Roxie take a step forward together. DCP, color, 66 min. Director: Debra Granik. With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher. —Public Programmer Beandrea July Part of: Debra Granik Presents: Conbody vs Everybody

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Baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated for a voice that "belongs to the last of the old great masters of song" with "an almost infinite range of colours" (Suddeutsche Zeitung), and for performances "delivered with wit, intelligence and sophistication" (Gramophone). James Baillieu is one of the leading song and chamber music pianists of his generation. They will perform Franz Schubert's Winterreise. Tickets are limited and go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. Please visit the event website for full details.

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