UCLA Magazine Stories

A walking tour of the Campus Plants Database.

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.

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.

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

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

When their gridiron careers ended, these former football players headed to nursing school.

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

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

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

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

We have always pondered the mysteries of the mind. Now, for the first time, we are beginning to unlock those mysteries. And the implications are extraordinary.

UCLA scientists have launched a historic effort to tackle and treat depression, the world’s largest health problem.

The founding director of UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center has brought his sense of form and function to overseeing the campus’s medical enterprise.

Brain mapping enables scientists to see in real time the processes — both normal and aberrant — at work inside our heads.

Thirty years ago, when athletes hit their heads, they were expected to “suck it up” and get back in the game. Today, sports concussions are on the front burner.

Kay Redfield Jamison knows depressive illnesses as both a patient and a doctor.

We live in the shadow of our achievements, says Dr. Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

Between ages 12 and 24, the brain undergoes tremendous change and is primed for innovative thinking.

Assistant Professor Patrick Allard and his colleagues have found a new way to test the toxicity of everyday chemicals.

UCLA is a partner in fighting childhood obesity.

The UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute pioneered the idea of interdisciplinary research.

Neuroscience has advanced more in the past decade and a half than in all of human history. UCLA has been at the forefront of this journey for more than 50 years.

A look at the articles in UCLA Magazine’s 2015 fall issue.

Make no mistake: Special Olympics athletes came to UCLA to win, but they left with so much more.

UCLA Professor Maite Zubiaurre’s unique course helps Bruin students see beauty in the world through a grease-stained lens.