As the technological revolution turns inward on ourselves, the issue of whether we can license the very essence of life itself is taking center stage.

While a student at UCLA, Ted Stevens had no inkling of where his life might take him. Five decades later he’s the senior senator from Alaska.

To an outsider’s eye, Kosovo appears to be on the mend. But a UCLA family-practice resident learns firsthand that the scars of war are never far from the surface.

Chancellor Albert Carnesale reflects on UCLA’s challenges and opportunities.

With his flair for artistic daring-do, David Sefton plans to elevate UCLA Performing Arts to new heights of creative innovation.

In a study of the changes produced by the Internet, Jeff Cole chronicles our love-hate relationship with a technology that is altering the world as we know it.

In the lab, Bob Goldberg’s research in genetic engineering may lead to new generations of superplants. But it is in the classroom where his influence perhaps is greatest.

Moved by a profound spirit of compassion and caring, UCLA doctors and nurses travel half a world away to render aid to Kosovo’s dispossessed.

For more than 20 years, Lew Hunter has been mentor emeritus to the budding screenwriters of Tinseltown.

By drenching UCLA’s new medical center in light and wrapping it in greenery, I.M. Pei has designed a hospital that will become a partner in the process of healing.

The health crisis in Africa challenges the notion that breast-feeding is always best in developing countries.

A striking exhibition at UCLA’s Hammer Museum reveals the roots of a vibrant immigrant community.

A look at the up-and-coming generation of gifted professors and researchers at UCLA.

Leena Peltonen helped to put Finland on the map as a global powerhouse in genetic research. She hopes to do the same for UCLA.

By taking a multidisciplinary approach, researchers in UCLA’s Institute of the Environment are tackling the vexing issues of how to clean up our air, water and land.

A list featuring the top athletes at UCLA.

Today’s World Arts and Cultures program has evolved into a unique cultural resource. An $18-million pledge will ensure its resources are world-class.

Bad behavior has always been with us, but today’s “gotcha journalism” is making sin and scandal a daily public spectacle.

Janis Giorgi is fighting to find a vaccine against AIDS. But outside of the lab she is engaged in a struggle on another front — to save her own life.

For the U.N. workers trapped inside their walled compound in the city of Dili, the worst part was telling the terrified refugees that the U.N. was leaving.

When the Mars Polar Lander touches down on the surface of the Red Planet in December, Westwood will be at the center of a historic interplanetary adventure.

For Saul Friedlander, the study of the Holocaust is more than an academic exercise. It is personal history.

Far from growing obsolete as we move into the next century, cities are becoming the engines driving the world economy.

The outlook is bleak for industrial workers in a postindustrial society.

One positive legacy of the 1994 earthquake: UCLA’s Royce Hall is a better building than it ever was before.