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Arguably the most collaborative space on campus, where disciplines like computer science, urban planning, Near Eastern languages and cultures and interactive mapping collide into creative scholarship.

How many of us have read a story about someone performing a selfless and generous act and been inspired to pay it forward? Tony Tolbert, associate director of admissions and outreach and an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, actually did – in a big way.

Higher education institutions trying to extend their reach internationally have launched study abroad programs and started satellite campuses in foreign lands. But have these trends now made higher education inaccessible and unaffordable for a broad...

If you thought the issue of segregation in schools was an urban problem that was ultimately solved with the past victories of the civil rights movement, Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, is asking you to take another...

Find out more about UCLA’s plans to go tobacco-free by attending Staff Assembly’s Learn at Lunch on Thursday, when smokers can hear from addiction experts about the most effective ways to quit.

  A three-part documentary series produced by UCTV explores the heartache for those suffering from and coping with Alzheimer's disease and the hope offered by UCLA researchers leading the charge to slow its progress...

Gov. Jerry Brown today (Jan. 10) proposed a state spending plan for the coming fiscal year that would provide a modest boost to the University of California's operating budget for 2013-14.   The state legislature still must agree to the...

"A Portrait of Piotr Kajzer" (1944) is one of 114 drawings by Franciszek Jazwiecki that were created in the concentration camps. Imagine toiling in secrecy, trying to create a drawing on bits of toilet paper or using a nail sharpened on a piece...

Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser to President George W. Bush and currently on faculty at Stanford University, will be on campus to deliver the 2013 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on Feb. 27 at 5...

Jane Margolis, one of the driving forces behind Center X’s efforts to make computer science accessible to all Los Angeles Unified School District students, particularly students of color, knows from experience that inequities exist in the...

  What happens when a group of young, talented musicians are given free rein in a world-class museum? Things get wild.   See for yourself in the first episode of "Museum Meets Orchestra," a new UCTV Prime documentary series that goes...

For the millions of holiday shoppers who recently spent $42.3 billion for online purchases, the conveniences are irrefutable, from browsing the virtual aisles 24/7 — even from home all cozy in our pajamas — to seeing our stuff...

"The mentoring experience will be profound for us," said Hancock of his and Shorter's new role instructing jazz performance students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Fourth graders at Earl Warren Elementary School, a Title 1 school located in an economically depressed area of Lake Elsinore, Calif., recently conducted molecular biology research and learned how to extract DNA from split peas using...

With nearly 23 million people across the African continent living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts across the globe are working feverishly to stem the epidemic. Among them is UCLA’s Pamina M. Gorbach, a behavioral epidemiologist whose...