campus events

After UCLA Anderson alumnus T.K. Pillan became a vegan and lost 20 pounds, he decided to launch Veggie Grill in a way that would attract non-vegetarians to his restaurant.

Retired Gen. John R. Allen, President Obama's former special envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will talk on campus about what the next steps in the U.S. and global strategy against the Islamic State should be.

More than 125 public events will showcase the depth and diversity of UCLA Arts activities and creative programming.

Pandemonium broke out today, Match Day, on the terrace at Covel Commons when 165 medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ripped open envelopes to find out where they have been accepted for residency.

CNN’s chief international correspondent, Amanpour has covered major crises and interviewed top leaders around the world for two decades. RSVPs for the lecture are now being accepted.

Laurence D. Fink, chairman, CEO of BlackRock, Inc. and the newest recipient of the UCLA Medal, talked about how China will have to transform its society to keep its economy moving forward.

Aerospace engineering graduate student Gary Li won first place last week at UCLA Grad Slam, a campuswide competition where graduate students give three-minute presentations on their research.

The film classic screens at 7:30 p.m., presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater.

The free event, on March 13, 2-4 p.m., includes a music and dance performance, an educational component and mask-making.

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.

Seth and Lauren Rogen have formed Hilarity for Charity to spread the word about Alzheimer's to millennials.

This talk by Daphne A. Brooks, which takes place on March 10 at 3:30 p.m. in the Charles E. Young Research Library, examines the problem of iconic blues women who’ve been “lost” to history.

While the experts agreed on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they sharply divided on how to achieve that goal at a recent discussion sponsored by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

UCLA graduate students are learning how to explain their research to a broad audience through the Grad Slam competition.

Former U.S. Congressman and current UC Regents Professor Henry Waxman talked about how Congress has evolved

The screenwriter and former reporter was the keynote speaker for the two-day inauguration of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

There will be more than 175 public events presented by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture showcasing a great depth and diversity of creative programming.

Hundreds of UCLA Bruins are spreading Thanksgiving happiness by helping international students, veterans and others enjoy the holiday.

Talented students from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's Department of Theater celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's birth this weekend at the Ralph Freud Playhouse with a musical extravaganza.

More than 350 UCLA community members gathered in Wilson Plaza today for UCLA’s eighth annual Veterans Day ceremony to honor current military service members and veterans.

A sold-out crowd at UCLA’s IDEAS campus got a visionary glimpse into the future of space exploration Friday at the first of a series of events hosted by FuturizeX, a campuswide initiative being launched by UCLA and XPRIZE.

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.

More than 3,700 parents and other family members joined their students for taste of UCLA campus life, Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

Ely Guerra, an internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter from Mexico, came to UCLA to meet with students, discuss issues with a Spanish class studying Mexican cultures and perform in a free concert as a UC Regents Lecturer.

For almost a year, artist Ann Carlson has been observing and “collecting” the gestures of more than 100 students and employees at work across campus for “The Symphonic Body UCLA.”