Sona Nalbandian is performing “Kamancha” on the aptly named four-stringed instrument, the kamancha.
As the fourth-year ethnomusicology student plays, I feel the history of an entire people in the rippling vibrations of the strings.

This post was updated Sept. 27 at 11:10 p.m.
It is 8 p.m., and 120 students sit on one side of a screen with volunteer teachers like myself from the Hidden Road Initiative, a non-governmental organization that gives students in Armenian and Artsakh villages the opportunity to explore educational and leadership opportunities.

This post was updated July 30 at 3:52 p.m.
UCLA students know that hard work and effort are the true determinants of success. But Bruins also have a tendency to believe that their accomplishments are due to luck or that they can expect better results with luck on their side.

UCLA researchers have come up with a method to create foldable origami robots that can evaluate and respond to their environment.
Previously, roboticists mainly made only the bodies of these robots by using origami folding methods and then added materials such as silicon-based computer chips for advanced functions, said Wenzhong Yan, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering and lead author of the paper.