UCLA in the Community

An expert discussion jointly sponsored by UCLA and Zocálo, explored the ethical challenges around death that arise in an age of tremendous advances in medical treatment.

About 50 UCLA students, staff and alumni spent their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday building planter boxes, planting fruits and vegetables and painting at the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center.

At an emotional event, the Sincuir family met three of the 27 people who had donated 50 units of blood products to save Jorge Sincuir’s life.

Among the topics discussed at the inaugural UCLA-Tata Global Forum in New Delhi were sustainable megacities, the integration of solar power into smart energy grids and sustainable biological fuels.

A Ph.D. student at UCLA has created a startup with a friend that offers a geolocation-based app to assist instructors with taking class attendance while helping students keep up with deadlines. But there’s a twist.

College-going rates have soared in the area around the UCLA Community School, which opened in L.A.'s Koreatown in 2009.

Michelle Caswell, an assistant professor of archival studies at UCLA, has helped launch an online archive that compiles first-person narratives.

UCLA Anderson alumna Sandy Tesch Wilkins is part of a solid core of Anderson students and alumni who are intent on putting their business skills to use in positive ways to have social impact.

Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Alvarez, the formerly conjoined Guatemalan twins who were  separated in 2002 in a landmark 23-hour surgery, returned to Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to visit sick children.

A panel of UCLA experts examine the causes and consequences of the terrorist attacks in Paris and how to deal with ISIS.

UCLA's Ramesh Srinivasan and the UCLA Digital Culture Lab he created helped students from a South L.A. school explore the role of new technology to shape grassroots social change.

A delegation from UCLA met Monday with students at John Muir High School in Pasadena to urge them to consider going to a UC campus.

More than 350 UCLA community members gathered in Wilson Plaza today for UCLA’s eighth annual Veterans Day ceremony to honor current military service members and veterans.

All are invited to attend Nov. 10 to hear remarks by two distinguished military servicemen and Chancellor Block that will be part of the UCLA’s Veterans Day ceremony.

Guests can launch a rocket, take a peek at planets outside our solar system, make a cloud in a bottle and get up close and personal with dinosaur fossils and meteorites.

There is a growing number of UCLA graduates around the world who are revitalizing their UCLA links, thanks to the UCLA Alumni Association’s expanded opportunities and strategic outreach.

Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Homeboy Industries’ Father Greg Boyle are among those who take part in the discussion.

A Ph.D. student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Teni Adewumi is helping to raise awareness of the potential adverse health effects of certain products used at beauty salons.

A UCLA delegation made up of more than 50 alumni, students, staff, community leaders and other friends will meet with members of the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to highlight the tremendous impact UCLA has in the region.

The initiative will provide access to the latest therapeutic cancer clinical trials and state-of-the-art care for men and women who have served in the armed forces.

By combining never-before–released data from energy utilities with public data, UCLA researchers created a database that provides an unprecedented look at the energy-use landscape.

Annual Volunteer Day tradition lends a hand at 48 sites around the city.

The UCLA Parent Project by Center X helps parents understand what’s going on in the classroom and how best to support new learning strategies to help their children succeed.

Volunteers from UCLA will go to 48 sites across Los Angeles County to work on projects at schools, parks, shelters, senior centers, veterans sites and neighborhood centers.

How to refer to the forced removal of Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents during World War II remains an issue.