UCLA Magazine Stories

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.

Or, how close friendships, unbridled audacity and the pioneering spirit made UCLA the first site on the Internet and the New Frontier of computer networking.

“The discoveries you make aren’t necessarily what you were looking for in the first place. It’s simply serendipity.”

The late researcher and humanist John Liebeskind taught the world that there’s nothing wrong with admitting it hurts.

For them, you’d go back to school. Five who teach us what teaching is all about.

For a university, the only gift greater than teaching knowledge is discovering how to use it.

Presidential scholar Robert Dallek, a master of the telling of great men’s lives, speaks for himself, reticently.