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A monument to Jackie Robinson, one of UCLA’s most celebrated alumni and the first player to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, was unveiled at a campus ceremony Saturday.

The UCLA Alumni Association has paid tribute to the university's distinguished luminaries since 1946.

Patricia Turner writes about Ashe’s life, from his birth into segregation to his death from AIDS in 1993, and identifies the qualities he embodied that today’s students should aspire to: perseverance, honesty and integrity.

Meb Keflezighi is the fastest qualifier for the 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials on Feb. 13.

Two UCLA alumni are helping to save endangered animals by selling stuffed toys of endangered animals and then donating part of their profits to wildlife preservation groups.

About 50 UCLA students, staff and alumni spent their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday building planter boxes, planting fruits and vegetables and painting at the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center.

Among the topics discussed at the inaugural UCLA-Tata Global Forum in New Delhi were sustainable megacities, the integration of solar power into smart energy grids and sustainable biological fuels.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement Cindy Fan led a campus delegation to Asia earlier this month for three forums that brought together alumni and supporters with local leaders.

A startup founded by a UCLA M.B.A. graduate and decorated military veteran took home the top prize in a competition aimed at giving a boost to some of the UC’s most promising life-science startups.

All are invited to attend Nov. 10 to hear remarks by two distinguished military servicemen and Chancellor Block that will be part of the UCLA’s Veterans Day ceremony.

There is a growing number of UCLA graduates around the world who are revitalizing their UCLA links, thanks to the UCLA Alumni Association’s expanded opportunities and strategic outreach.

Nova Jiang’s playful artwork, "Red Car," came together because of a collaboration between the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and Australia-based Westfield Corp. to support emerging artists.

For 25 years, David Ravetch, a senior lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, has been the charismatic warm-up act kicking off three intense days of freshman orientation.

In fitness-crazed Southern California, two UCLA Anderson School of Management classmates developed a business using DXA scanners that give people a comprehensive analysis identifying both the amount and location of fat and lean tissue in their bodies.

A book authored by a team of 20 students in a UCLA labor studies minor class tells the stories of immigrant families whose lives were disrupted by deportation. “Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation” was recently published by the UCLA Labor Center.

The sports network told the story of how Andrew Goldstein’s courageous story of coming out as gay to his college lacrosse teammates many years ago led to a friendship with a boy who contemplated suicide after coming out.

Refik Anadol’s recent collaboration with LA Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen ''Visions of America:Amerique Audio/Visual Performance'' has been selected by Prix Ars Electronica jury to be screened during Ars Electronica Animation Festival in Linz, Austria. 

UCLA Anderson School of Management alumnus Michael Landa developed an idea for a pet-sitting business into a multimillion-dollar firm -- with thanks to a Labrador named Max II.

President Linda D. Rose of Los Angeles Southwest College knows the struggles of older, returning students.

In the 47 years since Johnson helped found the games, the most important change has been in attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.

The inaugural UCLA Global Forums held recently in Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo offered alumni, parents and students living in East Asia a chance to hear from campus leaders and discuss issues of importance to them.

Obstacles, ranging from skyrocketing housing costs and insufficient state and federal funding to social stigma, are sending greater numbers of Americans onto the streets, said a UCLA-Zocalo panel of experts on homelessness.

Shaina Zaidi, a former UCLA Women’s Basketball student-athlete, has been named director of the Bruin Varsity Club by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.

More than 50 people came together today to share deeply felt anger, compassion, fear and frustration as well as hope for healing in response to last week’s tragic shooting in South Carolina.

UCLA Anderson alumnus Dan Russ teamed up with his best friend to create Click2Speak, one of the most successful “social good” startups coming out of Israel.