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According to the ranking by College Choice, the independent online publication that’s dedicated to helping students and their families find the right college, UCLA is the only public university in the top 10 list.

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.

With support from the UC Global Food Initiative, Savannah Gardner and Tyler Watson are leading efforts to bring fresh produce and healthy eating to cash-strapped Bruins.

On Monday, April 11 the UCLA baseball program hosted Veteran Appreciation Day at Jackie Robinson Stadium, with more than 100 veterans from all across Southern California coming out to take part in the day’s activities.

The 15th annual event held at Pauley Pavilion was once again a huge success, as students danced for 26 hours straight.

Started by two UCLA dental students, Operation Bruin Smiles helps UCLA's military veterans and former foster youth pay for major dental work.

Volunteer scientists, graduate students and staff from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA set up a booth to demystify nanoscience in fun ways.

Kimberly Anyadike made national headlines in 2009 by piloting a Cessna from Compton to Virginia, and back. Now the aspiring cardiovascular surgeon shines in the classroom and community.

Yaroslavsky serves as executive director of the new Los Angeles Initiative, a base for his teaching assignments and policy research.

About 50 UCLA students, staff and alumni spent their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday building planter boxes, planting fruits and vegetables and painting at the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center.

At an emotional event, the Sincuir family met three of the 27 people who had donated 50 units of blood products to save Jorge Sincuir’s life.

A Ph.D. student at UCLA has created a startup with a friend that offers a geolocation-based app to assist instructors with taking class attendance while helping students keep up with deadlines. But there’s a twist.

Michelle Caswell, an assistant professor of archival studies at UCLA, has helped launch an online archive that compiles first-person narratives.

UCLA Anderson alumna Sandy Tesch Wilkins is part of a solid core of Anderson students and alumni who are intent on putting their business skills to use in positive ways to have social impact.

Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Alvarez, the formerly conjoined Guatemalan twins who were  separated in 2002 in a landmark 23-hour surgery, returned to Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to visit sick children.

UCLA's Ramesh Srinivasan and the UCLA Digital Culture Lab he created helped students from a South L.A. school explore the role of new technology to shape grassroots social change.

More than 350 UCLA community members gathered in Wilson Plaza today for UCLA’s eighth annual Veterans Day ceremony to honor current military service members and veterans.

There is a growing number of UCLA graduates around the world who are revitalizing their UCLA links, thanks to the UCLA Alumni Association’s expanded opportunities and strategic outreach.

Dr. Angelica Zen’s recent honeymoon with her brand new husband, Ryan Miyakawa, will be forever memorialized in snapshots of the happy couple in Bali — and YouTube and TV news videos from all over the world.

A Ph.D. student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Teni Adewumi is helping to raise awareness of the potential adverse health effects of certain products used at beauty salons.

Daniel Ybarra, a medical student and graduate student in public health, has become one of UCLA’s first Tillman Scholars, which assists student veterans and their spouses with their education.

Annual Volunteer Day tradition lends a hand at 48 sites around the city.

Volunteers from UCLA will go to 48 sites across Los Angeles County to work on projects at schools, parks, shelters, senior centers, veterans sites and neighborhood centers.

For the last decade, UCLA Parent and Family Programs has been offering programs and events, support and resources, and volunteer opportunities. Parent volunteers are especially needed at move-in.

The fall quarter officially kicks off on Sept. 21, and classes begin Sept 24.