Where the Journey Takes You
It’s a warm, sunny Friday, the kind of day that makes people who visit here wish they lived in Southern California, and the soon-to-be chancellor of the most prestigious public university in the country and his wife are taking a stroll down Bruin Walk. The campus is quiet; no one seems to really note their presence. In January, of course, that will all change. Quickly.
In June, Julio Frenk, president of the University of Miami, was named the seventh chancellor of UCLA, and it is now, in the months before he officially assumes that role, that he is taking time to get to know the campus. Or, perhaps more accurately, to feel it — its hum, its beauty, its life. A passionate lover of opera, he and his spouse, Dr. Felicia Knaul, a health economist who directs the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas at the University of Miami, are heading into the baronial Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center recording studios, a mini Disney Hall tucked away near the Inverted Fountain just north of the Paul R. Williams–designed Pritzker Hall.