Bruin Spotlights

Bruin couple Roxanne Neal '84 and Chris Palomo '12, their son, Brendan Palomo '20, and their yellow Labrador retrievers were profiled by UCLA Newsroom this week. The couple has a combined 61 years of full-time staff service to UCLA; Neal, a history major, was in charge of new student orientation for many years. Her husband, […] Read More >

It’s not every day you meet a Bruin whose job it is to protect the planet. But that’s what happened when I met Lorraine Fesq, M.S. ʼ90, Ph.D. ʼ93, whose job at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is to monitor and mitigate large space objects hurtling towards or near Earth. It was then that I […] Read More >

Amber Kanazbah Crotty

Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty '07 is a member of the 25th Navajo Nation Council, serves on the Budget and Finance Committee, and is the chair for the Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives Taskforce and New Mexico Delegate Caucus. Delegate Crotty has worked diligently in strengthening responses to sexual violence, exploring data sharing and cross-deputation […] Read More >

C. Fred Fox

Dr. C. Fred Fox, award-winning microbiologist, UCLA professor emeritus and founder of what is now the Keystone Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology, passed away on Oct. 24 with his family by his side.  He fought a valiant fight with Alzheimer’s Disease and was briefly hospitalized. Fox was lovingly cared for by his wife, Dr. Jacqueline Schott Fox (Jackie), […] Read More >

Deniale Urbina

Native Bruin Deniale Urbina '12, from the Acoma Pueblo tribe, earned her undergraduate degree in international development studies. Raised in a military household, Urbina experienced a childhood marked by frequent relocations across the United States and Europe. She completed her high school education in Heidelberg, Germany, before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue her college […] Read More >

Joanna Hayes ’01

On June 17, UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame member and Olympic gold medalist Joanna Hayes ’01 returned to UCLA as the new Sherie L. and Donald G. Morrison UCLA Director of Track & Field and Cross Country. As a student-athlete, Hayes competed for the Track & Field program from 1996 to 1999, earned NCAA Outdoor […] Read More >

Tony Reed

Tony Reed To say that Tony Reed ’85 is from a family of Bruin fans is like saying, to keep the analogy in the family, that John Wooden’s teams won a lot of basketball games. “The way we have always looked at it,” Reed said, “is there's family, then there's UCLA, then just beneath that […] Read More >

Patricia Bengochia

Patricia (Petey) Bengochia '76, of the Bishop Paiute Tribal nation, was part of the first group of Native students that was recruited to UCLA. She majored in history with a focus on American Indian history, including Indian law. Following her graduation in 1976, she began her career within her tribe's education sector before transitioning to […] Read More >