UCLA in the Community

Former state legislator Sheila Kuehl and former Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver will participate in a Sept. 16 candidates forum hosted by UCLA in partnership with the Los Angeles Business Council and the Century City Chamber of Commerce.

A group of researchers at the Luskin School of Public Affairs is writing a guide to help cities build parks for seniors, an underserved group when it comes to park usage. They are working with residents to create a park in L.A.'s Westlake neighborhood.

A project that began as a release from demanding careers has become a successful band, Help the Doctor, complete with a fan base, a sold-out performance at the House of Blues and gigs for charity.

The Student Leadership Academy places recent university graduates with different social justice organizations and labor unions in Southern California. The program is sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Labor Center.

Researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs based their analysis on key factors, including what portion of renters’ income regularly goes to pay rent.

UCLA public policy alumna Snejana Daily spent a year traveling the world to tell the stories of people facing challenges across the globe in a 10-part series currently airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her commitment to nonprofit work was strengthened after she suffered the loss of her husband in Iraq.

M.B.A. students took on the challenge to craft a business plan that cuts costs and increases training productivity.

Launched in 2006, VIP Scholars aims to increase the number of underserved students that are competitively eligible for places like UCLA and other selective universities.

A UCLA study found that amputation rates were 10 times higher in California's poorest neighborhoods, like Compton and East Los Angeles, than in the richest ones.

In an interview, Randy Newman, who attended UCLA, explains how growing up and living in Los Angeles as influenced him. The event was part of the "Thinking L.A." series co-sponsored by UCLA and Zócalo Public Square.

Nearly 4 in 10 Los Angeles County residents live in environmentally vulnerable communities burdened by air pollution and other risk factors, according to a study by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and The Environmental Defense Fund.

Law students shoulder a heavy responsibility as they work for months to prepare a man from Africa for his one chance at being granted asylum.

A summer camp run by UCLA students offers unprivileged 10- to 18-year-olds from Los Angeles a chance to see the outdoors, learn teamwork and get motivated about college.

Fifty-four members from UCLA were accepted to the national nonprofit dedicated to community service, more than from any other school in the country.

Steven Lopez has earned UCLA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for expanding the outreach of a campus group that makes students from underrepresented groups aware of science careers.

It's been 30 years this month since UCLA was transformed into an international Olympic Village, when residence halls housed over 4,000 people, Bruin Walk bustled with activity, and over 160,000 spectators roared at Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA students who have been taking classes in American Sign Language have created videos of themselves signing information on the Holocaust to give deaf visitors to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance a richer experience as they tour the exhibits.

UCLA linguist Pamela Munro started a Facebook page to revive and promote the Tongva language, once spoken by Southern California's Gabrielino-Tongva Indians. Through social media, their descendants are now learning words, phrases and songs in Tongva.

Among the group's other recommendations: household water meters that measure indoor and outdoor water use separately, and stronger incentives for drought-resistant landscaping.

The UCLA Burkle Global Impact Initiative assisted in recruiting a diverse roster of film and music stars to appear in a new video for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In an event co-sponsored by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. and others disagree on Mayor Garcetti’s first year in office.

Furnish the Homeless, an organization founded by three UCLA students in 2012, takes unwanted furniture and appliances from students and others living near campus and delivers them to those living in transitional housing.

A UCLA institute that's searching for the best cost-effective health care practices and programs in L.A. County showcased the latest innovations in use by a dozen agencies and hospitals.

A group of Los Angeles K-12 teachers participated in a special two-day seminar at UCLA on using soccer in the classroom as a way to teach politics, economics and globalization.

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