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Here are just some of the ways the UCLA community has been part of Special Olympics since the beginning.

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.

A participant in the UCLA Anderson School's Entrepreneurial Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities says its offerings have far surpassed her expectations. It's given her the knowhow to start not one but two new businesses.

The nine-day program, in its eighth year at UCLA, covers the basics of business ownership.

More than 50 people came together today to share deeply felt anger, compassion, fear and frustration as well as hope for healing in response to last week’s tragic shooting in South Carolina.

“The idea of the summit is that the youth take the lead and the adults listen,” said UCLA’s Darnell Hunt.

A gathering of the UCLA campus community will be held at noon Thursday, June 25, to honor the nine lives lost in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jorge Ramos, news anchor for Univision, received an award and journalism certificate at a UCLA Extension graduation ceremony in Royce Hall, where he was the keynote speaker.

Thousands of summer learners, conference goers and day campers have already started to descend on UCLA for learning and fun. The Special Olympics World Games begin July 25.

UCLA will host California's first Paralympic-style track and field competition open to civilians and veterans. Clayton Frech, an alumnus whose 10-year-old son will compete, partnered with the university's adaptive recreation program to found the first Angel City Games.

For Pauley’s 50th birthday, UCLA looks back on how the arena hosted history.

For their commitment to community service, graduating seniors Rina Kim and Amir Hakimi, and medical student and Ph.D. candidate Gianmarco Raddi were each given one of the most prestigious honors UCLA bestows upon students.

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.

“Pitch Perfect 2” making you crave a cappella? Check out these performances by Bruin groups.

Middle East scholars at UCLA brought the terrorist group ISIS out of the shadows at several public talks on campus over the past few months.

UCLA will honor seven outstanding alumni, Waxman, Ortega, Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, Kathleen Dracup, Ann Wang, Jessica Willison and Albert Aubin, at ceremonies on May 16.

For UCLA’s spring Faculty Research Lecture, Kristal, the chair of UCLA’s comparative literature department and a professor of Spanish, will share his life-long love of the Argentine author Jorge Louis Borges.

A year-long focus will be the massive contribution of women in all art forms. The season begins Oct. 8 with “Desdemona.”

Panelists will be Olympian Rafer Johnson, Dodgers great Tommy Davis, former Fox Broadcasting exec Ron Taylor and UCLA lecturer Paul Von Blum.

Jean Paul Santos will compete May 4 against other campus winners of Grad Slam. His speech, “How to Talk to Mars,” helped him win UCLA's inaugural competition.

Leading scholars, clergy and activists will convene at UCLA on May 3 and 4 to examine the ongoing influence of the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

At an event held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA, more than 100 youngsters from Tom Bradley Elementary School in Los Angeles listened to a rebroadcast of that same speech.

The launch of UCLA startups has resulted in the creation of more than 4,400 jobs and contributed a total of $1.1 billion to the economy.

On Tuesday, April 28, the campus community, together with 2,000 K-12 students, will gather for events to commemorate the day 50 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited UCLA and addressed nearly 5,000.