UCLA Magazine

UCLA is home to approximately 50 club sports, ranging from the more traditional to the quirky to the downright crazy.

Policies that promote urban health is possible, say the experts whose job it is to ponder futures in public-health policy and practices in the City of Angels.

There is much in traditional societies that those of us in advanced cultures can adopt to live better as nations and individuals, says Jared Diamond.

A growing body of evidence links the ability to be resilient in the face of life’s stresses with success and happiness.

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, David and Goliath, explores the art and science of underdogs.

UCLA and the American president go way back in all sorts of ways. Think you know about UCLA presidential history? Here’s your chance to prove it.

A look at how the October 31 holiday evolved from a colorful but relatively minor-league American celebration to an iconic autumnal festival.

UCLA’s most venerated venue is back in action after a two-and-a-half year, $130-million-plus renovation.

UCLA scientists and engineers are in the vanguard of the study of how to build “thinking” machines and their present and possible future impact on human society.

The groundbreaking fund that arose out of last year’s Lincy Foundation gift to UCLA will help organizations and people bring their ideas to life.

One of the nation’s most influential political scientists is breaking new ground in bringing academic insight into the American election as it’s happening.

Filmmaker, marketer and film distributor Ava DuVernay is the founder of entertainment marketing firm The DuVernay Agency and organizer of film company AFFRM.

It was only one sentence, but it changed everything in college sports.

UCLA experts in diverse disciplines are exploring how vegetarianism can boost human health and alleviate a host of environmental challenges.

UCLA’s vaunted health-care system has established itself as a national leader in the integration of Eastern ideas and approaches into Western medicine.

Female teams have won 14 of UCLA’s last 18 NCAA titles. Four of their coaches discuss the pressures and rewards of what they do.

UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families continues its fascinating study of contemporary suburban America.

Emmy Award–winner Nancy Cartwright ’81 has lived a double life — hers, and the role that made the accomplished voice actress world-famous: Bart Simpson.

If the goal is to retain knowledge, research shows that commonly held beliefs about how to go about it are misguided. You need to relearn how to remember.

A Bruin who excelled on the battlefield, on the playing field and in the courtroom.

At an early age, this Bruin determined to tell the stories of great African Americans who are mostly left out of history books.

No athletic program at UCLA has won more victories or titles in the past half-century than Al Scates’ Bruin men’s volleyball teams.

Marcus Garvey, the larger-than-life 20th-century African-American activist, left a large and sometimes swashbuckling legacy.

UCLA faculty and alumni experts examine their impact on the immigration issue with policy makers and the public alike.

Joshua Maverick Webster ’09, a past president of the Military Veterans Organization at UCLA, served four tours of duty in Afghanistan.