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Waugh, an authority on American history and lifelong baseball fan, explains how baseball has (and hasn’t) changed, why it became the national pastime and how she teaches the sport’s history.

Richard F. Heck, a UCLA alumnus who captured the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry, died Friday in Manila after suffering for years from a number of illnesses, including prostate cancer and diabetes. He was 84.

When UCLA history professor J. Arch Getty presents “Dead Man Talking: Lenin's Body and Russian Politics,” the UCLA Academic Senate’s 119th Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 19, he will be speaking from a deep well of scholarship in Russian history.

From Oct. 6 and running through Dec. 10, staff, faculty and students can join the challenge to reduce their carbon footprints and earn points for UCLA.

H. Viscount “Berky” Nelson — a mentor, mediator and role model for generations of students during his four-decade career at UCLA — died Oct. 5 in Los Angeles at the age of 76 after a lengthy illness.

A UCLA delegation made up of more than 50 alumni, students, staff, community leaders and other friends will meet with members of the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to highlight the tremendous impact UCLA has in the region.

On faculty at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Estrada has devoted decades to serving his community.

Bill Roth comes to UCLA from Virginia Tech University, where he was the 11-time Virginia Sportscaster of the Year.

Ornitz was a pioneer in establishing the brain-based nature of autism.

For 25 years, David Ravetch, a senior lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, has been the charismatic warm-up act kicking off three intense days of freshman orientation.

UCLA has launched the newest version of its highly successful Optimists brand campaign. Themed “Momentum,” the new ads represent the fourth generation of the Optimists marketing effort.

UCLA historian Richard Hovannisian, a founder and six-time president of the Society for Armenian Studies, talks about what inspired him, what surprises him and what he thinks of the most well-known Armenian-American.

The UCLA Blood and Platelet Center has grown remarkably since accepting its first blood donation 40 years ago. Today, it’s the largest hospital-based donor center of its kind in the western United States.

The sports network told the story of how Andrew Goldstein’s courageous story of coming out as gay to his college lacrosse teammates many years ago led to a friendship with a boy who contemplated suicide after coming out.

Dr. Kelsey Martin, a senior administrator and longtime faculty member who specializes in understanding how the brain stores memories, has been named interim dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, campus officials said today.

As UCLA Football’s time at the team's pre-season camp draws to a close, fans are encouraged to come out and spend the final two days in San Bernardino with the Bruins.

Gail Abarbanel, founder and director of the Rape Treatment Center at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, has made it her life's work to change society's views of rape and how its victims are treated.

Bettina Lee serves as a one-woman classroom, teacher and mentor to patients at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA.

Elisa Long, an expert in probability and statistics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, wrote a column that appeared in the Washington Post about how statistics helped guide her through life, death and 'The Price is Right.'

President Napolitano has appointed a systemwide task force of UC faculty, staff and administrators to help develop a new set of retirement benefits options for UC to offer future employees hired on or after July 1, 2016.

Exploring the brave new world of microbiota may one day lead to the development of better ways to manage infections, create new antibiotics and address obesity, heart disease and cancer.

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

Takahashi, professor of urban planning and Asian American studies, has been appointed interim leader of the school effective immediately.

The school has risen rapidly since its creation in 2007 with a visionary $30 million gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation.

UCLA Health has been providing all the staff, materials and supplies to run the Special Olympics Polyclinic since July 24 to offer free medical care to any athlete or delegate who becomes injured.