Students and faculty attended a discussion panel, which focused on Los Angeles Times photographer Michael Robinson-Chavez’s photographs of the poverty-stricken gold mining community in La Rinconada, Peru, March 8 in Morgan Auditorium.

Campus and community arts events for the week of March 23, 2012.

Campus and community arts events for the week of March 9, 2012.

Campus and community arts events for the week of March 2, 2012.

Campus and community arts events for the week of Feb. 24, 2012.

Los Angeles Times photographer Michael Robinson-Chávez had the opportunity to visit and photograph the barren mining city of Rinconada, located 17,400 feet above sea level in the Peruvian Andes.

Campus and community arts events for the week of Feb. 10, 2012.