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UCLA health care staff help treat thousands at free clinic

  A team of more than 200 UCLA health professionals helped staff a free health care clinic last week that provided vital basic medical services to approximately 3,000 uninsured and underserved people in Los Angeles.   They were among the...

App helps you get your fitness fix fast

You’re headed to the Wooden Center for a workout, hoping the place isn’t packed like last time with lines of people waiting to use treadmills. If only you could find out in advance how busy the gym might be.   Now you can, with a...

Election loss in Virginia bodes poorly for NRA

Adam Winkler is a professor in the UCLA School of Law who specializes in American constiutional law. This op-ed originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Nov. 6.     Yesterday's gubernatorial election in Virginia was a remarkable...

Attendance at Parents' Weekend 2013 breaks record

Bruin families enjoy Homecoming at the Rose Bowl where the Bruins beat the University of Colorado Buffaloes. A record-breaking 4,100 registered parents and students got a taste of the best that UCLA offers during Parents' Weekend 2013, held last...

From the front lines to the bottom line

Navy veteran Daniel Moynihan is a first-year M.B.A. student at UCLA Anderson School of Management and says that the school is helping him translate the skills he developed and used during his military career to potential civilian employers. Photos...

Film student wins first place in national screenwriting awards

UCLA TFT grad student Rocco Pucillo, center, flanked by film producer John Goldwyn, left, and his father, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., president of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation. Monday was a good night for UCLA Theater, Film and Television's Rocco...

New measures aim to boost tobacco-free policy

Six months after UCLA's tobacco-free policy went into effect, many smokers have quit or cut back, and surveys of cigarette butts on campus show a steep reduction. New measures aim to reach out to tobacco-users who continue to ignore the policy by encouraging deans and supervisors to get involved.

Movember events promote men's health

Men, put away your razors! During "Movember," a month-long, international event, you are encouraged to grow a moustache to raise awareness and research funds for men's health issues such as prostate and testicular cancer and high cholesterol....

Drowning the oceans in plastic

Mark Gold is associate director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Cara Horowitz is executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. This op-ed originally appeared in the...

Is crowdfunding good for investors?

Timothy Spangler, who teaches at UCLA School of Law, is an expert on financial regulation in the United States and Europe and corporate law. He advises on the structuring and operation of a wide variety of investment funds, including...

Halloween costume contest winner

Alberto Alquicira, manager of the computer instruction lab in social sciences computing, won the First annual Staff Assembly Halloween costume contest with 160 "likes" on Staff Assembly's Facebook page, where you can view entries from all over...

Día de Los Muertos Mariachi performance

UCLA’s award-winning Mariachi de UCLAtlán will perform a free concert on Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Fowler Museum. The performance will include music from diverse Mexican communities and will highlight the special musical traditions of Día de...

Napolitano allocates $15M to aid students, researchers

Proclaiming that the University of California teaches for California and researches for the world, UC President Janet Napolitano Wednesday announced three initiatives aimed at supporting undocumented students, postdoctoral fellows and graduate...

A class in the art of trash talk

Studying the depictions of garbage in art, documenatry and pop culture forces us to talk about a topic many consider taboo and trivial.
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