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A group of nearly 100 donors, including alumni, faculty and friends of the school, has come together to honor the former UCLA Engineering dean.

Law professor Noah Zatz argues that the sentencing concept of “working off debt” violates the 13th Amendment's prohibition against involuntary servitude and disproportionately punishes communities of color.

It's the season of purple-blue across the UCLA campus — and much of Los Angeles.

Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University are providing a data-backed understanding of commercials’ persuasiveness and effectiveness with a new rating system.

Associate Vice Chancellor Monroe Gorden Jr. will become interim vice chancellor of student affairs, effective July 1, following the retirement of Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Janina Montero. Associate Vice Chancellor Youlonda Copeland-Morgan will become vice provost for enrollment management.

Alexander Astin, the Allan M. Cartter Distinguished Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College Personnel.

UCLA and Horace Mann Middle School recently announced the Mann-UCLA Summer Institute, a suite of summer programs at the South Los Angeles middle school to boost educational success and opportunities.

UCLA Engineering grad student Gary Li won $1K in the system-wide contest with an exciting, accessible, 3-minute speech about his research on how plasma thrusters could replace conventional rockets for space travel.

“The Collector and the Dealer: Gifts of African Art from Jay T. Last and Merton D. Simpson” underscores the lasting impact that two men have had on the development of the museum’s acclaimed African art holdings.

The total donation includes an already received gift of $1 million and a $14 million in matching funds to support operations and grow the museum’s endowment.

To celebrate jazz legend Duke Ellington’s 117th birthday, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Department of Ethnomusicology will be hosting a concert to honor his life and work.

A UCLA policy brief recommends that veterans’ mental health status be continuously monitored throughout their lives, not just when emergencies arise.

Research on incarceration in the United States by UCLA Luskin public policy professor Michael Stoll figures prominently in a newly released report on criminal justice reform by the White House Council of Economic Advisors. 

The David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health need your help to select four winning projects that aim to transform health in the Los Angeles region.

Associate professor Heather Roberge, associate vice chair in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, is a recipient of the Emerging Voices 16 Award from the Architectural League New York.

Combining workouts with traditional behavioral therapy helped people who were addicted to methamphetamine.

David Wacker and his siblings Gerry, Beverly and Michael — all UCLA alumni — have donated 46 acres of land in Kern County to the UCLA Meteorite Collection.

Peter Bisanz has been appointed the new executive director of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Dean Teri Schwartz announced today.  

University Parents Nursery School, located in University Village under sponsorship of the UCLA Office of Residential Life, is celebrating its 50th anniversary under director Rachel Graves, who’s been at the school for 28 years.

UCLA campus planners are using a digital tool developed by the now-defunct Urban Simulation Team to do bird’s-eye and ground-level simulations to help architects fit buildings into available spaces.

Jim Newton on how the well-intentioned California Environmental Quality Review Act can be misused, stifling economic development and, ironically enough, harming the environment.

To UCLA visual artist Casey Reas, writing computer code and programming are not so much technical skills as “thinking” skills that he has managed to apply to artistic expression to great effect.

Jenessa Shapiro, associate professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was recently named one of 2016’s "Best 40 Under 40 Professors" by Poets and Quants, a news website devoted to the coverage of business schools and MBA programs.

Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2016 distinguished lecturer by by the IEEE Photonics Society.

If you’ve ever contemplated becoming a vegetarian, check out how eating a plant-based diet isn’t just good for your health. It happens to also be good for the Earth’s health.