Kevin Roderick
Kevin is director of the UCLA Newsroom. He wishes he were inPacking his bags for Beijing
August 01, 2008
Aleem Hossain received his MFA in film directing from UCLA in 2004. His current projects include It Ends Today, an upcoming sci-fi drama web-series, "The Suffering", a low-budget horror film, and "Grande Larceny," a comedy feature film he co-...
News bits: 5 days to go
August 04, 2008
Here are some of the UCLA athletes who are in the news:
U.S. softball players Andrea Duran and Stacey Nuveman were featured in the Fresno Bee. Duran is blogging for us at the games.
Another of our bloggers, Jessica Cosby, a hammer thrower...
Playing the ticket game
August 05, 2008
UCLA alum Aleem Hossain, who is blogging about his trip to Beijing for the Games, describes the process of obtaining tickets to Olympics events.
The hard part was figuring out your request. In Round 1, which was not first-come, first-serve but ...
Softball team looks very Bruin
August 05, 2008
Of the 15 women on the U.S. softball team in China, four are graduates of UCLA: Stacey Nuveman '02, Natasha Watley '05, Tairia Mims Flowers '05 and Andrea Duran '07.
"UCLA's history in softball is unmatched," says Nuveman, a clutch-hittin...
U.S./China briefing info for media
August 07, 2008
UCLA's Asian American Studies Center has put together an informative U.S./China Media Brief as a one-stop educational service for journalists, educators and the public.
Here are some of the features:
101 pages of written conten...
President Bush and the softball women
August 08, 2008
President Bush posed with members of the U.S. softball team at today's Opening Ceremony in Beijing. Andrea Duran, one of our UCLA bloggers, is the second woman to the right of the president in the front row.
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Beijing attack claims father of Elisabeth "Wiz" Bachman
August 09, 2008
The UCLA community offers its condolences to Bruins alumna Elisabeth Bachman on the death of her father and sends hopeful wishes for her mother's recovery from injuries.
News accounts report that a Chinese man with a knife attacked Todd a...
Update on Barbara Bachman's condition
August 09, 2008
The United States Olympic Commitee released a statement, dated Sunday Beijing time, regarding the medical condition of Barbara Bachman, mother of former UCLA volleyball player Elisabeth Bachman:
BEIJING, China – Mrs. Bachman suffered multiple l...
Open letter from Elisabeth and Hugh McCutcheon
August 11, 2008
The United States Olympic Committee announced today that the condition of Barbara Bachman has been upgraded from critical to serious but stable. Mrs. Bachman suffered injuries in the Saturday knife attack in Beijing in which her husband, Todd Bach...
Aleem travels to China, sees diving
August 12, 2008
Los Angeles filmmaker and UCLA alumnus Aleem Hossain landed in Beijing on Sunday and was impressed by the airport's new international terminal. "Really cool," he posted at his blog. "But the highlight, by far, was Detective Dog!" The dog...
Bruins in Beijing photos
August 14, 2008
Here are some images of UCLA athletes and alumni competing at the Olympics in Beijing, from the photo galleries at the UCLA Sports website.
Nicolette Teo, UCLA senior who swims for Singapore, during a heat in the 200-meter breas...
Statement from Bachman family
August 19, 2008
Barbara Bachman, the mother of Bruin almuna Elisabeth Bachman, continues to recover from the injuries she suffered during an attack in Beijing early in the Olympic Games. Her condition has been upgraded to good at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
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UC Olympians blog
August 22, 2008
While we have focused here on UCLA's presence in China, the UC Olympians blog is following all 101 University of California participants in the Beijing Olympics. (They include Todd Rogers of UC Santa Barbara, who with Phil Dalhausser&nbs...