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Humanoid Nature

They walk, they talk and they play soccer. But the robots of Dennis Hong’s UCLA Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory are designed for more serious jobs.

Root Tale

A walking tour of the Campus Plants Database.

Seeing Is Believing

UCLA’s Urban Simulation Team gave L.A. leaders an advance look at how the city’s redevelopment and mass transit projects would actually work.

The Natural

Jake Heggie ’84, M.A. ’05 has felt most at home when he’s lost in music, performing and composing. His overnight success surprised no one more than him.

Hard at Work

For Abel Valenzuela, the acclaimed UCLA scholar of immigrant and itinerant labor issues, inequality isn’t just an academic exercise; it’s personal.

Advice for Weekend Warriors

If you exercise only occasionally, or have been inactive for a long time, pace yourself to avoid injury.

Hard Evidence

Archaeologists' find yields the first complete ancient human genome from Africa.

For the Love of Film

The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s founders were determined not to let film culture slip away.

Pool Kings

The men’s water polo team brought home UCLA’s 113th NCAA title.

A Home on “The Hill”

More than 50 years ago, a visionary provost wanted UCLA students to live on campus in order to enjoy its “cultural and intellectual riches.”
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