UCLA Magazine Stories

For more than 35 years, Dr. Gary Parker has lived and worked aboard a Mercy Ship, helping the world’s poorest disfigured people.

A lost mural design by La Kretz Botany Building architect Paul Revere Williams was finally brought to life in 2017.

UCLA’s Daniel Swain has become one of the nation’s most sought-after experts on the urgency of combating climate change.

After the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, the state partnered with UCLA to help women secure their reproductive freedom.

Want to lose weight — and keep it off? A UCLA dietitian has some advice: Think small.

It’s UCLA’s biggest musical event of the year. But Spring Sing is so much more.

Armed with passion, intellect and vision, the crusaders of UCLA’s Activist-in-Residence Program are as trailblazing as the initiative.

How a UCLA senior helped Bali farmers clean their crops.

Larry Farmer, who helped build UCLA basketball into a national powerhouse, finally tells his story.

The age of streaming rediscovers the works of Octavia Butler.

Two Bruins reconnect to help combat Alzheimer’s by marrying philanthropy and style.

An award-winning UCLA academy is training the next generation of impact investors and nonprofit leaders.

For lovers of food, there is simply no place like L.A.

A Bruin guide to this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

A Bruin guide to this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

No matter where you go around the globe, chances are there’s someone there who knows the eight-clap.

At Dinners for 12 Strangers, guests arrive as mutual unknowns but depart as friends, with a new appreciation for the ties that bind the UCLA family.

The UCLA Anderson Forecast’s signature brand of analysis is proving more vital than ever.

Justina Blakeney ’01 turned a passion for all things bold, bright and beautiful into a home design empire. At UCLA, she found artful inspiration for her creative journey.

UCLA’s new Initiative to Study Hate represents a critical effort to root out what’s causing the alarming rise in hate across the country — and what we can do to stop it.

How UCLA became a cool setting for a new crop of fiction.

UCLA’s Bedari Kindness Institute wanted to find out if kindness is contagious. The answer may surprise you.

With Bruin blood running through his veins, Walter Thompson-Hernández is bringing amazing chronicles to the world, one medium at a time.

The ideal of respectful political discussions seems more out of reach than ever. How we can rekindle the art of meaningful dialogue.

From the Count Basie Orchestra to BTS, Duane Benjamin is bringing a jazzy sensibility to modern music.