UCLA Magazine

Maintaining a clean, sustainable water supply is fast becoming the defining challenge of 21st-century Southern California.

The next era in UCLA’s storied men’s basketball program begins this season, when Steve Alford takes the helm.

UCLA has played a role in elevating mariachi music, and the first formal class was taught in its ethnomusicology department in 1964.

A new analysis details UCLA’s deep and wide contributions to the economies of Southern California and the state.

Los Angeles magazine called Amy Rowat’s lecture series at UCLA “a mind-blowingly awesome event.” Not a description you’d expect for a university class.

The New York Times called Oakland Raiders punter Chris Kluwe ’05 “the most interesting man in the NFL.”

Both the story and the setting of Nebraska are close to the heart of the meticulous director.

Chelsea Hoffman Shukov ’99 and Jamie Oberg Grobecker ’01 sweeten the stationery industry in an increasingly digital world.

The building’s floor tiles contain a coded tribute to Professor Leonard Kleinrock, “Father of the Internet.”

UCLA researchers have found that happiness derived from a purpose in life has a healthier genetic effect than pleasure-seeking.

The Pulitzer Prize winner served as 16th U.S. Poet Laureate.

Much of the research being used to determine public policy on sexual orientation and gender identity is being generated by an institute at UCLA Law.

Green food is increasingly popular at UCLA, and a thriving organic garden north of the residence halls on the Hill has everybody eating it up.

For decades, baseball and UCLA have remained a potent double play as Bruins continue to make contributions on the field and in the front office.

To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the Fowler Museum will showcase eight special exhibitions.

When government, the media and the public try to make sense of drug policy in America, they turn to UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ Mark Kleiman.

UCLA’s Bruin Walk is a place of bustling activity that echoes with a history as varied and innovative as the university itself.

Many dance schools teach technique. At UCLA, something more ambitious swirls through the classrooms: a conviction that art really can change the world.

Is technology good for our brains, or is it bad? Does it improve thinking, or imperil it? The debate rages, digitally or otherwise. The experts see it both ways.

Members of the UCLA family have left their mark on the contemporary metropolis that is the city of Los Angeles.

More and more, a visit to the doctor means a meeting with a nurse practitioner. These hybrid health-care providers are becoming increasingly common and critical.

UCLA Associate Professor of Electrical and Bioengineering Aydogan Ozcan is one of the world’s “Brilliant 10” scientists, as proclaimed by Popular Science magazine.

University of California Regent Edward A. Dickson decided upon Westwood for the new home of the Southern Branch of the University of California.

Pauley Pavilion reopened this fall after a 33-month, $136-million makeover with a jam-packed week of celebration for the entire Bruin family.

As Los Angeles looks to gain recognition as “Silicon Beach,” UCLA faculty and students are playing major roles in the transformation.