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In online interviews with a professor, UCLA Luskin social welfare alumni reveal some fear, some frustrations and a whole lot of dedication.

UCLA doctoral student Leydy Diossa-Jimenez has overcome the odds of geography and health to become a scholar, while helping others learn to advance their educations.

Alumna Jasmine Sankofa is applying international human rights concepts to change U.S. laws and policies that cause unjust harm to incarcerated people of color — especially women.

Alumnae Patricia Coleman James and Coretta Harris, along with current student Imani Elston, discuss the early days and how the chapter has evolved.

The Bunche Center for African American Studies was key in bringing the annual State of Black California meeting to campus.

In this Q&A, the honorary Academy Award winner discusses how the movement originated and shares how his experiences at UCLA shaped his career.

Alumna Patricia Vidal Delgado’s first feature film is making its debut at one of the nation’s top film festivals.

Leia Yen is the first UCLA transfer student to receive a Marshall Scholarship. Jonathan Lovett is the third Bruin graduate to win a Schwarzman Scholarship.

Craig Ehrlich, who graduated from UCLA in 1978, will take over leadership of the foundation’s board July 1.

Festival includes earliest works from filmmakers like Nina Menkes, Catherine Hardwicke and Terry Sanders, who film was the first student film to win an Oscar.

Alumnus Nicholas von Sternberg finds art imitating his life in the Netflix movie “Dolemite Is My Name.”

The Centennial edition of the annual event will be held on Wilson Plaza, and it will feature a 35-foot Ferris wheel, food trucks and games.

Jason De León, UCLA professor of anthropology and Chicana and Chicano studies, received a 2017 MacArthur Foundation fellowship for his interdisciplinary approach.

Actor Mayim Bialik, a UCLA alumna, will be on hand to receive an award from the UCLA College division of physical sciences.

The 33rd edition of the open-streets event celebrates UCLA’s Centennial with activities that brought campus highlights downtown.

CicLAvia—Heart of L.A. will feature a wide range of UCLA-related activities, with current Bruins and and talented alumni contributing to the festivities.

The “UCLA: Our Stories, Our Impact” exhibit featuring commissioned portraits from activist artists launches on campus today then will tour Los Angeles.

On Sept. 30, 1984, the UCLA Alumni Association gave campus one of its most iconic landmarks, “The Bruin” statue on Bruin Plaza.

From Hong Kong to Kyrgyzstan, New York to Seattle, and dozens of locations across Los Angeles, there were more than 100 sites in honor of UCLA’s Centennial.

They will be recognized at the association’s Fiesta de Inspiración Scholarship and Alumni Awards Gala on Thursday, Oct. 10.

Scheduled to speak on the mainstage are UCLA alumni George Takei, Ray Garcia and Natasha Case.

UCLA students, staff, faculty, alumni and also community members have until Sept. 26 to sign up to participate.

Since 1934, counselors at the student-run camp have learned that volunteering at the camp for low-income kids is life-altering experience.

UCLA alumna Erika Hirugami and the Chicano Studies Research Center curated “On Their Backs: Latinx Labor in the US.”

Selected excerpts from the writings and speeches of UCLA alumnus Ralph J. Bunche, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for securing an armistice after the creation of Israel. His birthday is Aug. 7, 1904.