UCLA Magazine

Bruin actors, writers, directors, stage managers, and lighting, set and costume designers. “The show” is what they love. Westwood is where they learned it.

UCLA architectural historian Thomas S. Hines is an expert on the architecture of Richard Neutra, the king of mid-century modern design in Los Angeles.

In 2006, fewer than 100 African-American freshman chose to enroll at UCLA. The university came together to meet this challenge and enrollment has now doubled.

As the master detective of “good” cholesterol, UCLA’s Alan Fogelman has been tracking down the true nature of this elusive molecule his entire career.

In only a few short years, UCLA’s Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research can claim a long string of breakthroughs.

UCLA Volunteer Day is the university’s largest and most far-reaching outreach project.

Last spring, UCLA was planning a 100th birthday bash for Coach John Wooden. Sadly, we never got the chance. He passed away on June 4, 2010.

At the Warner Graduate Art Studios facility, students in the UCLA Department of Art show their work and mingle with gallery owners and art critics.

Americans are healthier, breathe cleaner air and live safer lives because of Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

From football to movies, politics to celebrity murder trials, Bruins have been the source of some of the most popular quotations in history. Here are the Top 10.

Basic cable is the go-to place for TV dramas. Michael Wright ’87, executive vice president and head of programming for Turner cable networks, is a big reason why.

Here are some tips to determine if you or a loved one has a shopping problem, why it’s no laughing matter, and what to do about it.

UCLA is taking the lead in training caregivers to first do no harm, making Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center one of the safest in the nation.

Are IM’ing, texting and blogging ruining our minds — and our relationships? We ask Bruin experts for their take.

Just in time for summer road-trip plans, here’s a handy guide to some of the very best alumni winemakers and their wines.

We explore the tantalizing — and maybe terrifying — frontier of synthetic biology and do-it-yourself life science.

Kahi Lee ’99, founder of design firm Kahi Lee Lifestyle, recently designed a luxury penthouse for the just-opened W Hollywood.

UCLA’s Inverted Fountain was installed March 18, 1968 — and led to several Bruin traditions.

Bruin blue and gold runs throughout the Tchekmedyian family.

Talent and innovation built the California Dream. But UCLA — one of the state’s most critical sources of both talent and innovation — is under siege.

Tom Wortham, former chairman of the UCLA English Department, is an expert on Mark Twain and his masterpiece, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

A look at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s performance of “The Housekeeper.”

We asked some prominent D.C. Bruins what political life is like and how their time in Westwood prepared them for their careers.

Dr. A. Eugene Washington, the new dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, talks about his ideas on leadership and where medicine is headed.

Marty Sklar reveals the secrets of a career in theme park design — and what a certain Mr. Disney would say about making wishes come true.