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Grade Expectations

UCLA’s School Management Program has helped hundreds of K–12 schools across the country improve their performance.

Life in Colors: The Chicano Canvas

UCLA scholar Chon Noriega channels his lifelong passion into “Phantom Sightings,” LACMA’s first exhibit of Chicano art in nearly two decades.

Wining and Dining

Two Bruin culinary experts share their favorites for perfect meals during nights on the town or quiet dining at home.

Saving Grace

Operation Mend is a partnership that unites wounded soldiers from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, with UCLA doctors.

Clothes Make the Band

The UCLA Bruin Marching Band updates the navy-blue uniforms it wore for decades.

First Response

UCLA’s High Speed, High Volume Laboratory Network for Infectious Diseases can track thousands of bioterror threats or infectious disease outbreaks.

Generation Next

UCLA faces the challenge of replacing a huge wave of retiring Baby Boomer professors.

Battle of the Sexes

The UCLA scout team acts as practice partners for the female Bruin hoopsters.

Access Granted

Academic Advancement Program celebrates 35 years.

The Transfer Effect

What does it take to get into UCLA two or three years after high school?

Adventures in Publishing

Debra Finerman shares the drama that unfolded while publishing her first novel.

A Steady Hand

When Norman Abrams agreed to be interim chancellor, he didn’t know that he would be plunged into a yearlong series of challenges and crises.

Block on Board

He’s a scientist, a scholar, a car lover and a leader. Meet UCLA’s new chief executive up close and personal.

Keep Off the Lawn

A new UCLA study reveals that Americans never use their back yards anymore. We’re too busy logging on to go outside.

The Human Touch

Universities are training doctors with a new emphasis on human beings. For many, the benchmark is a revolutionary program created at UCLA.

Think Big: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In his new book, the basketball player chronicles the remarkable Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s and ’30s.

Avatar Academics

Is virtual reality the next frontier for universities? Some of the most famous names in education — including UCLA — are teaching in cyberspace.

Road to Ruins

Cruise ships and crushing poverty. Ancient ruins and modern menace. Past and present collide on a UCLA Alumni Association journey to North Africa.

Spectator Spectacles

From guys in funny hats to sports lovers who dress up in costume for women’s volleyball games, UCLA inspires its own kind of fanatics.
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