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Some of the world’s most talented, up-and-coming young jazz musicians call UCLA home as students and fellows of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

From a digital literacy program in Ecuador's rainforest to enhancing math education in Lusaka, Zambia, UCLA's 2014 Global Citizens Fellows demonstrate what can be done with $5,000 and one summer.

Young patients at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA went "shopping" Monday for gifts for their parents or guardians without leaving the hospital, thanks to head football coach Jim Mora and his wife, Shannon.

Kathryn Kietzman, project director of the “Helping Older-Adults Maintain IndependencE” (HOME) Study, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Santa Monica Commission for the Senior Community. HOME, which is based at the UCLA Center for Health Research.

A UCLA environmental law clinic coaches students to become legal advisers and official delegates to the annual United Nations climate conference

Lokubanda Tillakaratne has spent more than three decades helping his former village in many different ways. Now he's published a book of facts, figures, interviews and personal recollections of life there.

Students struggling with hunger are invited to bring their families to a student-organized turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

Elizabeth Pratt, who is working toward earning a master’s degree in public policy concurrently with her M.B.A. at the UCLA Anderson School, is one of three Anderson student recipients of the 2014 John Wooden Global Leadership Fellowship.

This year, UCLA's annual food drive is also part of a competition to donate more than the university's cross-town rival.

UCLA volunteers headed for the Veterans Home of West Los Angeles on Sunday for a day of stripping, sanding and re-staining wood patio chairs and tables so that veterans who are living at the assisted-living and skilled-nursing facility can continue to enjoy being outdoors.

Tigon Abalos, a dental student at UCLA, a Army veteran and former refugee from Vietnam, will draw on her deep appreciation for her service experience when she speaks at UCLA’s annual Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 10.

UCLA officials went downtown on Wednesday to recognize campus programs that serve communities throughout Los Angeles County and, together with volunteer ambassadors, met with local officials to discuss UCLA's public service efforts in each of their respective districts.

UCLA professor of education Sandra Graham, who has spent her career studying the effects of inequity in schools, is now having a direct influence on carrying out UCLA’s commitment to equity and diversity on this campus.

Volunteers worked at more than 40 schools, veterans centers, public parks, senior centers, community centers and homeless service providers.

The Burkle Global Impact Initiative, which was created at UCLA to educate the public about international and humanitarian affairs by working within the creative community, helped produce a video for the United Nations Climate Summit that took place Tuesday in New York.

For UCLA's sixth annual Volunteer Day on Sept. 29, 7,300 Bruins will blanket Los Angeles County helping out at schools, veterans' sites, senior centers, shelters, parks and more, before classes even begin.

About 50 UCLA health care workers ranging from nurses to cardiologists and ophthalmologists, volunteered at this year's free health clinic for the poor and underserved sponsored by Care Harbor.

Headed for a career in medicine, Megan Cory turned her own diagnosis of type 1 diabetes into an opportunity to do research, raise funds and help inform the public about ways to prevent diabetes.

UCLA public policy alumna Snejana Daily spent a year traveling the world to tell the stories of people facing challenges across the globe in a 10-part series currently airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her commitment to nonprofit work was strengthened after she suffered the loss of her husband in Iraq.

M.B.A. students took on the challenge to craft a business plan that cuts costs and increases training productivity.

Law students shoulder a heavy responsibility as they work for months to prepare a man from Africa for his one chance at being granted asylum.

A summer camp run by UCLA students offers unprivileged 10- to 18-year-olds from Los Angeles a chance to see the outdoors, learn teamwork and get motivated about college.

Fifty-four members from UCLA were accepted to the national nonprofit dedicated to community service, more than from any other school in the country.

Steven Lopez has earned UCLA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for expanding the outreach of a campus group that makes students from underrepresented groups aware of science careers.

After more than 40 years in Campbell Hall, UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program is getting a chance to stretch its legs.