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Lewis is a graduate student in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a teaching fellow. She has taught Cluster 70: Evolution of Life and the Universe and a Cluster seminar: Astrobiology in Science Journalism. She has also served as a TA for Astronomy 3, Astronomy 5 and Physics 5AL. At the graduate level, she has served as…

L to R: PWM Capstone Seminar Colloquium presenters: Amber Thatcher, Roxann Song, Lynette Caballero, Marilyn Chavez-Martinez, Kailee Silver Forty of the Professional Writing Minor’s seventy-one graduating seniors participated in the Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium, a special three-day event organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2022. Students shared their original work on a…

Earlier this year, the UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching published a video in which Writing Programs lecturer and 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award winner Peggy Davis discusses how she inspires her students. Peggy highlights the idea that students come to focus on what they can achieve with their writing—rather than what grade they can…

UCLA Newsroom recently highlighted Writing Programs lecturer Amber West and her unique English Composition course, “Identity and Representation in the Post-Hip-Hop Era.” West teaches hip-hop as literature, and the students in her class analyze rap lyrics as a form of contemporary poetry. Click here to read the UCLA Newsroom article.