Today Hollywood is powered by a generation trained in university cinema studies programs. UCLA’s film school is one of the first and best.

From a Quonset hut to the Watts riots to the Computer Age: 40 years inside Social Welfare.

The undaunted women of the 1978-’79 Bruin hoops team didn’t notice they were making history. They were too busy playing basketball.

Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil and the UCLA liver transplant team are pioneering a procedure that makes the sickest of the sick whole again.

Root long and hard for your favorite team, but try to keep the games we watch and play in perspective.

UCLA’s department of art trains ambitious students to be thoughtful rabble-rousers.

In a land renowned for its revolutionaries, a handful of UCLA-led doctors may be waging the most critical battle for the hearts of a new generation of Peruvian poor.

Twenty-five years ago, the woman athlete was born at UCLA — and sports, not to mention the school — have never been the same since.

The only thing more surprising than recent revelations about the existence of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be the scientist who discovered it.

Popular UCLA pharmacologist Louis Ignarro examined the therapeutic benefits of nitroglycerin and went on to make an explosive discovery.

Between the extremist “drug warriors” and “legalizers” lies a third way of thinking about drug policy in America.

And closing in fast is Dennis Slamon and UCLA researchers, powered by support from philanthropists Lilly Tartikoff and Revlon CEP Ronald O. Perelman.

Pulitzer Prize-winning human multiprocessor Jared Diamond has a lot on his mind.

Bob Toledo and Steve Lavin talk about pressure, the press, winning and losing, and playing for keeps.

A daring new CD-ROM by the Film and Television Archive takes us inside — and face to face with — the horrors of America’s concentration camps.

UCLA’s profound “spirit of place” — a quality missing in so much of contemporary life — grows out of thoughtful planning and careful development.

The changing face of HIV — one woman’s story.

A “free” UC education costs a lot more today than five years ago. Ensuring affordable access to all qualified students is a complicated — and expensive — bit of business.

Our intrepid correspondent returns to the library and is relieved to discover that five years and a major face-lift later, the Powell she loved is warmer and more inviting.

The UCLA community submits their best unpublished short stories for this magazine’s first-ever fiction package.

Professors of excellence — Arnold Scheibel, Susan McClary, Ivan Szelenyi, Kris Gutierrez and Utpal Banerjee — stand and deliver daily for the benefit of their UCLA students.

An invisible line separated me and my friend Mary Beth. We were the daughters of very different families.

To understand who’s on top in the modern world, you have to look back to the last Ice Age and the inherent environmental advantages the conquerors had over history’s less fortunate.

The day after she took us to see “A Hole in the Head,” Mother went crazy. Still, she was a swell dancer.

Unconcealed tears of grief signaled that this trip would be with the stunned seamen of the fishing vessel Defiance forever.