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The Way We Were

Bruins of all ages love to recall the Westwood stores, cafés and nightspots where they made lasting memories.

Making a Difference

Many UCLA scholars devote their careers to preparing students for a lifetime of public service. That commitment takes on special meaning in an election year.

Eating L.A.: City of Gold and Blue

In establishments ranging from high-end restaurants to ubiquitous food trucks, Bruins are helping change the way Angelenos think about food.

Born to Perform

Floor exercise provides room for creativity — and Coach Valorie Kondos Field’s Bruins have taken it to a whole new level.

Playing for Keeps

Are computer games fantasy or reality, culture or technology? Can they absorb the richness of humanity? The director of UCLA’s Game Lab ponders these and other questions.

New Math

Anthony Yom’s work went mostly unnoticed until a student of his became one of 12 in the world to earn a perfect score on an AP calculus exam.

An Inconvenient Vision

UCLA Professor Catherine Opie captures provocative images of the everyday that make us take another look at the icons around us.

Secrets of a Time Master

Want to put more hours in your day? Simplify your life and increase your efficiency.

All That Glitters

Bruins have excelled at the Summer Games. Now some two dozen UCLA athletes have been or likely will be chosen to represent their countries in Rio.

Supreme Dreams

UCLA law students seize the opportunity to advise the nation’s highest court through the Supreme Court Clinic.

Fashion in the Seven Kingdoms

Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton is the Swarovski Designer in Residence at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Jump Start

A mediocre paintings collection secured by a UC Regent in 1938 was the catalyst that eventually landed UCLA on the national art scene.

An Olympian Effort

At UCLA, we’re thinking ahead to 2024, in the hope that LA 2024’s bid will bring the Games to campus.

Yin and Yang of Music

UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music balances scholarship, performance and composition across myriad genres and tastes.

Humanoid Nature

They walk, they talk and they play soccer. But the robots of Dennis Hong’s UCLA Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory are designed for more serious jobs.

Root Tale

A walking tour of the Campus Plants Database.

Seeing Is Believing

UCLA’s Urban Simulation Team gave L.A. leaders an advance look at how the city’s redevelopment and mass transit projects would actually work.

The Natural

Jake Heggie ’84, M.A. ’05 has felt most at home when he’s lost in music, performing and composing. His overnight success surprised no one more than him.

Hard at Work

For Abel Valenzuela, the acclaimed UCLA scholar of immigrant and itinerant labor issues, inequality isn’t just an academic exercise; it’s personal.

Advice for Weekend Warriors

If you exercise only occasionally, or have been inactive for a long time, pace yourself to avoid injury.

Hard Evidence

Archaeologists' find yields the first complete ancient human genome from Africa.
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