UCLA in the Community

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched the Suyama Project to gather and make available online evidence of resistance among Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II.

Thanks to UCLA student Grant Guess, schoolchildren with developmental and intellectual disabilities in West Africa are reaping the benefits of working on sustainable farm projects that he has developed for them.

For his courage dealing with sickle cell anemia, 9-year-old Luc Bodden was designated the fourth “Kid Captain” by Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the football team.

At a "Thinking L.A." event co-hosted by UCLA and Zócalo, four panelists discussed the importance and difficulty of implementing desalination plants, water-recycling facilities and other tools to help California make better use of its water resources.

UCLA Engineering has joined with a Korean youth organization to establish the program, which will focus on addressing malaria and other global health challenges.

This summer, 20 UCLA students are learning about food and food justice as part of a new class funded by the UC Global Food Initiative.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games brought athletes and their families from around the world to UCLA. Some of our favorite moments.

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.

Foster youth in UCLA First Star Bruin Guardian Scholars Academy helps lead effort to outfit Haitian soccer team at Special Olympics World Games.

For the first time in Special Olympics World Games history, cheers are ringing out from the sidelines as 225 cheerleaders from around the country converge to be part of Cheer for LA2015.

In California, where bilingual instruction is largely prohibited, secondary students who don’t speak English quickly fall behind. But a project to create a bilingual online curriculum is being led by UCLA professor Patricia Gándara.

The UCLA Volunteer Center, which is coordinating Team UCLA’s efforts campuswide, estimates that nearly 1,000 Bruin students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters are lending their time and talents to make the games a rousing success.

The UCLA Center for World Health and the LA5 Rotary Club brought together a panel of experts to talk about the failing health of the Earth and what mega-cities can do about it before an audience of 200 business peoplein downtown Los Angeles.

Caley Versfelt, a Special Olympics World Games global messenger, has gained a lot of self-confidence and important skills through Special Olympics and several UCLA programs geared toward people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In the 47 years since Johnson helped found the games, the most important change has been in attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.

The final leg of the 2015 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics hit Westwood Thursday afternoon.

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.

Olivia Raynor, director of UCLA's Tarjan Center and a disability rights leader, talks about the significance of the Americans with Disabilities Act 25 years ago and the central role of the late Douglas Martin in implementing its rules and regulations on campus.

The Labor Studies Applied Research Methods course at the UCLA Labor Center introduces students to basic social science research methods by immersing them in a hands-on project to assist community organizations.

Dismissing unrest in America’s cities as aimless violence overlooks the roots of people’s anger, according to the panelists at a UCLA-Zócalo event examining the history of urban resistance.

UCLA’s Dr. Matthew Waxman writes about the two months he spent in Sierra Leone treating people suffering from the deadly Ebola virus.

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

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health team, in partnership with public- and private-sector organizations, is spearheading community action to reduce exposure to smoking in Los Angeles apartment buildings.