UCLA Magazine Stories

If the goal is to retain knowledge, research shows that commonly held beliefs about how to go about it are misguided. You need to relearn how to remember.

A Bruin who excelled on the battlefield, on the playing field and in the courtroom.

At an early age, this Bruin determined to tell the stories of great African Americans who are mostly left out of history books.

No athletic program at UCLA has won more victories or titles in the past half-century than Al Scates’ Bruin men’s volleyball teams.

Marcus Garvey, the larger-than-life 20th-century African-American activist, left a large and sometimes swashbuckling legacy.

UCLA faculty and alumni experts examine their impact on the immigration issue with policy makers and the public alike.

Joshua Maverick Webster ’09, a past president of the Military Veterans Organization at UCLA, served four tours of duty in Afghanistan.

An on-site conference center moves inexorably toward reality. Deans, professors and friends of the university say it can’t happen soon enough.

UCLA is a coveted lifestyle brand across Europe and Asia.

UCLA leads the way in exploring the boundaries of privacy in a digital world — and how policymakers should respond.

Why isn’t there more solar power in sun-drenched Los Angeles? The technology is there, but the will is not. But that’s changing fast.

From airplane patterns to Johnny Cash songs to crowdsourced digital sheep, techno-artist Aaron Koblin uses online data to explore new frontiers in digital arts.

Westwood has been a catalyst for Love since it first opened — a UCLA tradition of the finest kind. Here’s how the campus played matchmaker for a few couples.

Think you know about UCLA athletics history? Here’s your chance to prove it.

Alumni Shane Acker will direct a live-action feature about Thomas the Tank Engine.

UCLA researchers are creating solutions and making science that can help us all breathe easier.

Bruin basketball fans are looking forward to the 2011–12 season to catch their first look at David and Travis Wear, the highly recruited McDonald’s All-American twins.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive celebrates the filmmakers who told authentic stories about the black experience.

In 2008, a tragic accident in a campus lab profoundly shook the Bruin community. In response, UCLA didn’t just revise its policies; it innovated.

UCLA Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Anne Rimoin M.P.H. ’96 is a virus hunter and an American archetype: the brave, resourceful scientist-adventurer.

The Jazz Studies Program is a jewel in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s crown. And now, the Thelonious Monk Institute is uniting with the university.

We took a trip around town to check out the best Bruin-owned and/or operated spots in L.A.’s neatest neighborhoods. Here are some of our favorites.

The world’s leading expert on cacti biology, UCLA plant physiological ecologist Park S. Nobel is an evangelist for the environmental benefits of succulents.

Joe Bruin’s current design, unveiled in 1996, marks its 15th anniversary this September.

Dozens of Bruins are thriving as designers, brand managers, fashion journalists and art directors.