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A team of UCLA Health System brain specialists implanted its 500th brain pacemaker on Thursday, and invited followers on Twitter to observe. The patient, actor and musician Brad Carter, was awakened during the surgery and asked to play the guitar as an aid to the medical team.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office said the death near Boelter Hall, which houses the engineering school, was a suicide.

A suite of intimate, thematic exhibitions mounted this fall will highlight more than 800 artworks from the Fowler's vast, acclaimed global collections.

The collection of some 1,500 meteorites includes a 357-pound chunk from Arizona donated to UCLA by philanthropist William Andrews Clark, Jr.

Nearly 2,000 UCLA alumni and friends are expected to gather on campus this Saturday (May 18) to participate in the annual UCLA Alumni Day, which will feature speeches and activities for professional networking and personal growth.

UCLA's Alumni Association honors six alumni on May 17 for outstanding achievement in their professional fields and contributions to society.

The University of California today announced it will seek a restraining order against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, in response to an announcement from the union that it is asking UC patient care and service employees to strike at UC medical centers May 21–22.

Annelie Rugg rides from West Hills in the San Fernando Valley, crossing the Santa Monica Mountains.

UCLA is among the world’s great research enterprises, testing boundaries and producing new knowledge on a daily basis, and the departure of one lab will not diminish our impact.

A strike by AFSCME patient care and service workers could involve more than 4,000 UCLA Health System and medical school employees, most of whom take care of patients and their families.

The UCLA Anderson School of Management will bring together MBA students, alumni, faculty and regional entrepreneurs and investors to discuss the latest developments in entrepreneurship and emerging business trends.

Campus leaders said they appreciate Adidas' responsiveness to an outstanding labor issue

The university is expected to confer an estimated 10,000 bachelor's, master's, doctoral and professional degrees during the ceremonies, which run from May 17 to June 15.

Highlights include offerings in international theater, modern dance, music and spoken word by artists from across the performance spectrum.

Two million veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. They have the potential to change the lives of civilians, too. Three panels at a Zócalo/UCLA forum asking “How Are Veterans Changing America?” discussed the impact on America’s economy, medicine and families.

Dashew, an inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in the founding of the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars at UCLA, died April 25.

The Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America will draw on UCLA's cross-disciplinary strengths and partnerships with other institutions to address key issues in the region.

"An event like this shows how involved UCLA is with things that span beyond this campus," said a student participaing in the activities, which included a campus walk and blood drive.

UCLA went completely tobacco-free today, becoming the first UC campus to do so and one of the largest of more than 1,000 campuses nationwide that are making smoke- or tobacco-free environments the new normal.

A library director for more than 11 years, Steel has significant leadership experience within the UC system and at Association of Research Libraries institutions. "She brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and perspective to this critical role," wrote Scott Waugh, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.

More than 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide have gone smoke or tobacco-free. Next week, UCLA joins the crowd.

The admitted students, including 9,263 California residents, are expected to make up UCLA's most ethnically, geographically and socioeconomically diverse class to date.

The UC Berkeley professor will discuss his new book, "Improbable Scholars," at a UCLA Graduate School of Eduction and Information Studies event on April 24.

Four UCLA faculty members are among an esteemed group of 175 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships. The new fellows were chosen from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.   The...

The half-day event will feature Chancellor Gene Block, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, journalists, and experts from UCLA, nonprofits and government.