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Thanks to UCLA student Grant Guess, schoolchildren with developmental and intellectual disabilities in West Africa are reaping the benefits of working on sustainable farm projects that he has developed for them.

Working with the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, the operating room staff at Reagan UCLA Medical Center collected hundreds of school supplies for needy children.

UCLA has placed sixth in a national ranking of colleges and universities intended to measure service in the public interest.

This summer, 20 UCLA students are learning about food and food justice as part of a new class funded by the UC Global Food Initiative.

Four recent UCLA retirees reminisce about their experiences and offer words of wisdom to their fellow Bruins.

The Science and Entertainment Exchange at UCLA connects scientists with filmmakers to bring scientific accuracy to the big screen.

Camp Leg Power combines creative therapeutic activities in a fun camp atmosphere with a pilot study to see if changes in the brain can be identified in children with spastic cerebral palsy.

More than 100 UCLA Health employees will be staffing two clinics to ensure the health and well-being of spectators, Olympians, their coaches and chaperones.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games are ready to take center stage at UCLA.

Olivia Raynor, director of UCLA's Tarjan Center and a disability rights leader, talks about the significance of the Americans with Disabilities Act 25 years ago and the central role of the late Douglas Martin in implementing its rules and regulations on campus.

The Labor Studies Applied Research Methods course at the UCLA Labor Center introduces students to basic social science research methods by immersing them in a hands-on project to assist community organizations.

This summer, 14 UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs graduate students are working on projects around the world for government and non-governmental organizations.

Charles Gold was rescued by Los Angeles Fire Department personnel and treated by staff at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center when he collapsed during March’s race.

Students, student veterans, faculty, staff and community members came together today to collect 90,000 U.S. flags that were placed at gravesites at Los Angeles National Cemetery on Memorial Day in honor of American military men and women.

Prime Time Games brings full-inclusion sports teams of students from disadvantaged schools and the developmentally disabled to campus for a day with UCLA student-athletes as coaches and mentors.

Students at a high school in La Cañada Flintridge participate in a School of Nursing research project on congenital heart disease at the request of a beloved teacher.

The new Veterans Benefits Legal Clinic helps veterans navigate what can be a complex path to receive the financial assistance for which they qualify.

UCLA students once again deliver big time at the 14th annual student-run Dance Marathon.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

About 60 UCLA staff members from Residential Life spent their St. Patrick's Day visiting the Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles Medical Center on Tuesday to lend a hand with gardening and several other projects

Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala and Burkle Global Impact Initiative Director Brian Gott attended an event at the White House Tuesday at the invitation of President and Mrs. Obama for the announcement of a new initiative under the “Let Girls Learn” campaign.

With little access to arts education in their schools, roughly 4,400 local children have benefited from the expertise of students and graduates who teach as part of the UCLA's Visual and Performing Arts Education program.

Sixteen UCLA students have received fellowships for projects that focus on food, ranging from making documentaries to constructing new campus gardens.

About 400 community-engaged courses are offered, and hundreds of thousands of hours of community service are performed by UCLA students, staff and faculty each year.

The Ready to Work program, run by the Los Angeles Black Worker Center, a project of the UCLA Labor Center, helps blacks in L.A. qualify for union apprenticeships in the trades.