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Renaissance RoboCop
Actor Peter Weller of science-fiction fame is finishing a Ph.D. in art history.
May 16, 2013
Better Living by Design: A. Quincy Jones
The Hammer Museum celebrates the L.A. modernist
Apr 25, 2013
Bruins Who Build Los Angeles
From revitalized neighborhoods, to improved transportation, to innovations in parking, these Bruins helped make LA what it is today.
Apr 1, 2013
Picture This: Women and War
Photographer Marissa Roth captures the extraordinary strength of women during times of war.
Apr 1, 2013
Malcolm Gladwell: Why David Beat Goliath
The popular author says underdogs should play to their own strengths.
Jan 1, 2013
Dog Days
This Bruin thought canines deserve vacations, too.
Jan 1, 2013
Wedding Bell Blues
Two-time UCLA grad's best seller is out to liberate Chinese women.
Jan 1, 2013
Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
Startup UCLA helps students and recent grads launch businesses.
Jan 1, 2013
Politics by the Book
Increasingly, candidates are looking to social science scholars for guidance on how to win.
Dec 12, 2012
Lights, Camera, China!
These Bruin brothers make Chinese-language comedies and English-language adaptations of action-packed Chinese stories.
Oct 1, 2012
Dreams Made Here
Fondest wishes are coming true, thanks to the generosity of the Dream Fund.
Oct 1, 2012
"Fathers of the Internet" named to new Internet Hall of Fame
In 1969, Professor Leonard Kleinrock and Vinton Cerf M.S. ’70, Ph.D. ’72 transmitted the first message between computers hundreds of miles apart.
Sep 11, 2012
Picture This: Singapore Heat
When a microbiologist realized his heart was really in a restaurant, he created one of downtown L.A.'s hottest eateries.
Jul 1, 2012
Zoobiquity
Cardiologist Barbara Natterson Horowitz's aha moment came when she realized a chimp's heart was just like her own.
Jul 1, 2012
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Setting the Record Straight
At an early age, this Bruin determined to tell the stories of great African Americans who are mostly left out of history books.
May 1, 2012
New Face for Public Performance on Campus: CAP UCLA
The program previously known as UCLA Live is now Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.
Apr 26, 2012
Supreme Victory for Law Students
These new attorneys can already brag about a win from the nation's highest court.
Apr 19, 2012
Family Values: Making the Fowler Kid-Friendly
Introduce children to art through programs, games and family guide.
Apr 1, 2012
Land Art: Created from the Earth
This exhibition of works from natural materials was curated by a UCLA professor.
Apr 1, 2012
New Dennis Hopper Bio: A Labor of Love
Severely disabled, Bruin Peter Winkler tapped out the story with a chopstick.
Apr 1, 2012
A Conference Center Could Be Coming Soon
Plans are underway to build a full-service hotel on campus.
Apr 1, 2012
Presidential Praise for Fighting Hunger
A UCLA student group wins kudos for its innovative program.
Mar 15, 2012
Driven by Data: Inventing a New Digital Art
From airplane patterns to Johnny Cash songs, techno-artist Aaron Koblin uses online data to explore new frontiers in digital arts.
Jan 1, 2012
Have Argument, Will Travel
Research shows that teen arguments at school carry over to home, and vice versa.
Jan 1, 2012
Hungry Eyes
This scrumptious feast is calorie-free.
Jan 1, 2012
Curtain Up: Theater of the Mind
Jan 1, 2012
Family Values: Giant Fun - The Sequel
Make sure you catch this band's 30th anniversary at Royce Hall with the family.
Jan 1, 2012
Helping Parents Breathe Easier
New book by head of UCLA's pediatric ear, nose and throat medicine, answers common questions about respiratory issues in children, newborn to five years.
Dec 15, 2011
All Quiet This Time
Activist and scholar Angela Davis returns to Westwood more than 40 years after her turbulent UCLA experience.
Dec 6, 2011
A Consummate Showman
Gil Cates, who died on October 31, brought his love and talent to UCLA — and left an indelible mark.
Nov 3, 2011
Nothing Stuffy Here
At the Hammer, visitors find interactive experiences designed to make people of varied backgrounds feel comfortable in a museum.
Oct 5, 2011
A Climate for Change
UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Carnesale studies forces that threaten the planet. His newest worry — greenhouse gases.
Oct 1, 2011
Curtain Up: Political Mother
Be sure to catch the hotly anticipated performance of Israeli Hofesh Shechter's Political Mother at Royce Hall in October.
Oct 1, 2011
Light It Up
Ron Rezek may be best known for cool lights and fans, but he made his first splash on Zuma Beach... and Baywatch.
Oct 1, 2011
Coming Full Circle
Rafer Johnson '59 has been part of the Special Olympics since it began in 1963
Sep 30, 2011
East Comes West
A unique Boyle Heights bookstore has temporarily set up shop inside the Hammer Museum.
Sep 21, 2011
UCLA Volunteer Day 2011
Sep 19, 2011
Can Twitter Be Trusted?
In political uprisings, the role of social media can be exaggerated, and its accounts overblown.
Sep 7, 2011
An Early Taste of Dorm Life
UCLA’s Faculty in Residence Program promotes close mentoring relationships between professors and students right where they live. And for a few fortunate kids, it’s a chance to see college life up close.
Aug 9, 2011
Tales of the Runway
Clothes-minded Bruins are thriving as fashion-industry trendsetters.
Jul 1, 2011
Art Enhanced with a Click
UCLA's Hammer Museum goes digital with the debut of an exhibit-enhancing, free mobile-phone app.
Jun 3, 2011
On Exhibit: Divers and Dwarves
A retrospective of work by legendary American artist Paul Thek comes to the Hammer.
Apr 1, 2011
Herbie Hits the Hammer
At UCLA Film & Television Archive's screening of Disney classic The Love Bug, 1963 VW beetle Herbie proves he can still give bad guys a run for their money.
Apr 1, 2011
Bruins on Broadway
From UCLA to the Great White Way: Stage stars who started in Westwood tell all.
Jan 1, 2011
Miracles in the Making
Combine one dynamic leader, one visionary benefactor and an all-star team of scientists, and what do you get? Potentially life-changing and lifesaving breakthroughs in medical research.
Jan 1, 2011
Nuclear Options
Nuclear engineer and ex-UCLA chancellor Albert Carnesale is who D.C. turns to for ideas to keep us safe. But Al foresees trouble on the horizon.
Oct 1, 2010
Protect and Preserve
Robert Rosen has helped turn UCLA's Film and Television Archive into the second largest film collection in the nation.
Apr 1, 2009
East of Westwood
This fall, UCLA Extension offers more than 50 classes at a new downtown campus near the site of its founding more than 90 years ago.
Oct 1, 2008
Block on Board
"Things that seem impossible, he makes happen," says a colleague at the University of Virginia about UCLA's new chancellor. Meet Gene Block, up close and personal.
Jul 1, 2007
A Steady Hand
Norman Abrams took on the toughest job of his life, agreeing to be interim chancellor in Westwood. He didn't know that he would be plunged almost immediately into a year-long series of challenges. But he brought the university through all of them.
Jul 1, 2007