UCLA Magazine

John Wooden and Valorie Kondos Field — two extraordinary UCLA coaches — discuss life, love, faith and, of course, coaching.

With a bag of dimes and an idea, the author descended to the basement of Powell Library to write one of the most important science fiction stories of the age.

Donald Cram’s creativity and brilliance revolutionized chemistry, opening the doors to new worlds of discovery.

You wouldn’t recognize him up on the big screen, but Terry Notary was the man behind The Apes in the summer’s must-see flick.

Jeannie Oakes is on a crusade to ensure that every child has a fair shot at a first-class education.

Without the patient-volunteers who donate their bodies as living laboratories, the advances in our understanding and treatment of AIDS wouldn’t be possible.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library isn’t just a resource for scholars and academics. People with a love of learning have “a mental paradise” in its walls.

The Hope Street Family Center gives children of Los Angeles’ working poor a chance to reach their full potential.

Law Professor Gary Blasi and a group of students spent five months investigating California’s public schools, uncovering Dickensian conditions of squalor and neglect.

UCLA’s researchers are making the most of modern tools and techniques to unlock the secrets of our shared pasts and cultures.

UCLA scientists were the first to identify AIDS in 1981. Will they now become the first to develop a vaccine against the disease?

Judith Baca’s large-scale murals have illuminated the history and stories of Los Angeles’ diverse communities. Today, her students are learning to carry on the tradition.

John Wooden was the most successful coach in college basketball history, but for him, winning never really was the name of the game.

UCLA is a place where innovation and ingenuity have led to groundbreaking achievements and life-changing discoveries.

There’s an air of sunny optimism permeating The Anderson School as its newest M.B.A.s prepare to launch themselves into the uncharted territory of the dot-com world.

A bioterrorist attack or lethal disease run amuck is the stuff of shock fiction and bad TV movies, but to epidemiologist Scott Layne these scenarios are very real.

In Reconcilable Differences, UCLA psychologist Andrew Christensen offers a prescription for building better relationships.

Jim Heath’s computers will be billions of times more efficient than anything we’ve ever imagined, holding the promise of benefits that will affect all our lives.

Three UCLA Nobel laureates have gone on to achievements that deepen our understanding of human existence and perhaps even open the gateway to longer life.

Ann Philbin, the new doyenne of the L.A. art scene, is turning UCLA’s Hammer Museum into the city’s hottest cultural center.

As the technological revolution turns inward on ourselves, the issue of whether we can license the very essence of life itself is taking center stage.

While a student at UCLA, Ted Stevens had no inkling of where his life might take him. Five decades later he’s the senior senator from Alaska.

To an outsider’s eye, Kosovo appears to be on the mend. But a UCLA family-practice resident learns firsthand that the scars of war are never far from the surface.

Chancellor Albert Carnesale reflects on UCLA’s challenges and opportunities.

With his flair for artistic daring-do, David Sefton plans to elevate UCLA Performing Arts to new heights of creative innovation.