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The UCLA alumnus will also receive UCLA's highest honor, the UCLA Medal, which previously has been awarded to such luminaries President Bill Clinton, basketball coach John Wooden, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and UCLA alumna and astronaut Anna Lee Fisher.

Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, "Twelve Years a Slave," is the basis for this year’s Academy Award best picture nominee of the same name.

The University of California announced today that it has reached a tentative agreement with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for a four-year contract covering more than 8,300 service workers. AFSCME agreed to call off its five-day strike scheduled for March 3-7 at UC campuses and medical centers.

The Academy Award–nominated director of "12 Years a Slave" will speak Feb. 28 as part of a new series that looks at the power of storytelling to educate and influence social change.

"Much of the world’s sorrow can be traced to cycles of retribution, where one group seeks revenge for real or imagined wrongs done by another," Power said.

One of the first such platforms implemented by a large university, UCLA Spark utilizes social media to connect donors with faculty and students across campus.

UCLA and three other top-tier West Coast universities have formed an alliance to work together to increase the number of underrepresented minority Ph.D. students in the mathematical, physical and computer sciences and engineering.

Friedlander, a pioneering Holocaust historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, will donate a portion of his share of the $1 million award to UCLA.

The campus produced more volunteers in 2013 than any other university in California and was ranked No. 6 nationwide in the agency's annual survey.

UCLA's partnership with ASPIRE will spur students to tell inspiring and significant stories through film and new media to make the world a better place.

Professors Chandrashekhar Joshi and Alan N. Willson Jr. are among 67 engineers honored by the prestigious organization.

With more than 60 works in various media, the exhibition examines important and often controversial sacred figures from Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina and the U.S.

The former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady will speak and participate in a question-and-answer session at Royce Hall on Wednesday, March 5.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright accepted the UCLA Medal before a packed house in Royce Hall and delivered a keynote address that focused on the difficulty of creating effective foreign policy in the face of rapid technological change and growing global interdependence.

The proposal seeks to build on the increasing popularity of the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies by converting it to a full academic department.

UCLA has been ranked the nation's No. 6 "best-value" public university by the Princeton Review, based on an analysis of academics, cost and financial aid.

UCLA will present author talks, panel discussions, lectures, and cultural and artistic exhibitions on African-American and African history, culture and experiences this February.

With about 70,000 people and the water needs of a small city, UCLA can take small steps toward conservation during California’s drought that will add up to big savings.

UCLA police arrested a suspect in connection with two armed robberies of students reported this afternoon off campus in Westwood Village.

The former secretary of state, who will receive UCLA's highest honor, will visit the campus as part of a lecture series presented by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

The campus again received more applications than any four-year university in the nation, with increases among black, Latino and Native American students.

UCLA and six other UC campuses on the quarter system are adjusting their 2014-15 academic calendars to comply with a UC policy to avoid scheduling fall residence hall move-in dates in conflict with the observance of major religious holidays.

Drawing lessons from the Northridge earthquake and many more since, dozens of UCLA researchers are helping ensure that we are better prepared for future quakes.

UCLA begins its 11th annual campus closure on Saturday, Dec. 21, and reopens Thursday, Jan. 2, with winter-quarter instruction starting the following Monday.

The department is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter.