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Volunteer for the fifth annual Westwood Organized Meaningful Project (WOMP) on Saturday, May 31, in a day of community improvement projects in Westwood Village and the North Village.

Celebrity chef Charles Chen will teach UCLA staff, faculty and students how to prepare delicious and healthy meals.

More than 600 people attended the 7th annual Dealing for Duchenne celebrity poker tournament and silent auction, raising $650,000 for the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA.

UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Siegel discusses his latest book 'Brainstorm: The Power and the Purpose of the Teenage Brain' tonight, June 3, 7 p.m. in Covel Commons.

UC President Janet Napolitano orders flags at all UC facilities to be lowered to half-staff to honor the memories of the victims of Friday's tragic events in Isla Vista.

Authors Donald Antrim and Karl Ove Knausgaard will lecture on 'The Alternative Uses of Real Life in Fiction & Memoir' at UCLA's Hammer Museum on May 29.

The 28th annual JazzReggae Festival comes to campus this Memorial Day weekend. The two-day festival — Jam Day on Sunday, May 25, and Reggae Day on Monday, May 26 — will feature artists such as Ky-Mani Marley, Snoop Dogg, Aloe Blacc and Black Uhuru.

Over Memorial Day weekend, the UCLA community will host two events to show appreciation for soldiers and veterans.

Melnitz Movies will screen 'Night Moves' on Thursday, May 22, 7:30 p.m. at the James Bridges Theater. The fifth feature film by acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard.

Bruins can enjoy summer baseball for a great price: UCLA staff, faculty, alumni, students and family members can purchase tickets for L.A. Dodgers games through September for up to 30 percent off.

UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television will screen 'National Treasure' at the James Bridges Theater on May 21, when the school honors the film's screenwriters, alumni Cormac and Marianne Wibberley.

Join the Fowler Museum at UCLA and Charlene Villaseñor Black, associate professor of art history and Chicano/a studies at UCLA. for a discussion of saints on June 4 at 12 p.m.

UCLA Athletics Director Dan Guerrero has been selected as one of four Football Bowl Subdivision winners of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award for 2013-14.

Taylor Bazley, a UCLA senior, grew up in a poor neighborhood in San Diego. So when he was admitted to UCLA, Bazley knew it would change his life.

A sunset meditation session on Thursday, June 5 at UCLA's Fowler Museum will include an introduction to mindfulness, silent meditation and world music.

UCLA faculty and staff are invited to an info session on the Anderson School's Fully Employed Masters of Business Administration (FEMBA) program on May 29.

Learn about opportunities at UCLA for staff members to get the skills they need to advance their careers in 'Making yourself more marketable,' a free workshop on Tuesday, June 17, noon- p.m. at Royce Hall, Room 314.

University of California faculty, staff and their family members can receive a 33 percent discount on 10 UC Online Education summer session courses.

Roll with your fellow Bruins on a bike train to campus from Culver City or Koreatown on Thursday, May 15, part of UCLA Bike Week sponsored by UCLA Transportation.

An exhibition of the work of MFA students in UCLA Media Arts opens on May 15 and runs through May 29 at the New Wight Gallery.

The University of California proposes to renew the Employee-initiated Reduction In Time (ERIT) Program for a three-year period. Employee comments are invited by May 30.

Peter Taylor, former UC chief financial officer, will present 'UC’s Financial Challenges and the Systemwide Response' as part of UCLA’s Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center’s series of 45th Anniversary Celebration lectures.

Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton will be at UCLA on Thursday, May 22 as part of the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies' 'Images in Blackness' film series.

Penelope (Penny) Hein-Unruh, UCLA associate vice chancellor for academic advising in the College of Letters and Science, died May 8 in her home in Los Angeles.

Join Kristy Edmunds, artistic and executive director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA for Arts Exchange on Monday, May 12, 5 p.m. in the Royce Hall West Lobby for conversation about collaborations between the center and campus colleagues.