UCLA in the Community

So few Angelenos voted this year that Eric Garcetti was elected mayor with just 222,300 votes — the same number it took to get elected mayor in the 1930s, when L.A. was half its present size. At a “Thinking L.A.” event Thursday...

Los Angeles County has a rare opportunity to make sweeping and necessary improvements to the way it rehabilitates incarcerated youth as it moves forward with a project to replace Camp Vernon J. Kilpatrick, a dilapidated all-boys camp in the hills...

 Catherine Opie, whose photographs have been exhibited in some of the finest art museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Japan, will soon be showing her newest work to people on the run.

Students at predominantly Latino Roosevelt High School are reaching beyond their own neighborhood and culture to study the language, music and traditional theater of China through the Chinese Alive! program.   A...

Radiologists are studying an extremely rare 14-foot, 250-pound oarfish that washed ashore near San Diego last month to trace the evolution of its skeleton and unique swimming style.

More than 4,000 people swarmed the Court of Sciences and Kinsey Pavilion to participate in a scientific open house where children (and adults) could learn by observing and participating in dozens of live demos and experiments.

Los Angeles, is a city of two food worlds that collide at the Grand Central Market downtown. Thinking L.A., sponsored by UCLA, took up the topic.

Thirty years ago, the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. contacted the UCLA School of Nursing with an intriguing request: Would the school be interested in providing services to homeless adults and children staying at the mission?

The Hammer’s Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a museum-led initiative to show was Westwood Village could become.

With housing prices climbing dramatically this year, the Los Angeles region's expanding transit corridors may offer the best opportunity for the development of new workforce housing, according to a new UCLA Anderson School of Management report.

Stores along Wilshire Boulevard experienced an average 10 percent bump in sales on the day of the event, with some seeing increases of up to 57 percent.

The downloadable report and map, which details more than 1,200 urban agriculture sites, will aid city planners, food policy advocates and local growers.

As part of an effort to support the growth of Chinese education in U.S. schools, 115 teachers from China have been studying at UCLA to learn how to be effective Mandarin language teachers for American students.

Snowfall will drop by 30 to 40 percent in Los Angeles-area mountains by midcentury due to climate change, and things could get worse by 2100 if we don't rein in greenhouse gases, according to a UCLA study.

The new map lets residents find how much energy the average customer in their neighborhood uses, see how that use relates to income level and track energy use over time.

For fourth-year anthropology major Linnet Luna, readings and lectures in her "Gender and Language in Society" class on the social context of communication came to life at the Bresee Foundation, a nonprofit community organization a world apart from campus.