The university-affiliated school with a public mission to support and improve secondary education welcomed its inaugural class of sixth, seventh and ninth graders.
While women have made significant gains in many fields, including medicine, business and law, the percentage of women who receive CS degrees is the smallest across all STEM fields, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
UCLA is one of the top universities in the country for producing the most Ph.D.s in the arts and humanities. In 2014-15, UCLA tied for No.1 in the nation with NYU, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The first two women of Tongva descent to be awarded Ph.D.s at UCLA celebrated that milestone today at UCLA’s Graduate Division Doctoral Hooding, held on a campus that now sits on the ancient land of their ancestors.
The third annual Jumpstart UCLA Literacy Fair, entitled “Historical Figures: One World, Many Stories,” celebrated local preschoolers’ achievements and featured various interactive literacy activities run by UCLA students.
Dr. Kelsey Martin, who recently was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, is the first woman dean of UCLA’s medical school, and she is among only a handful of women leading a medical school in the United States.
Two days after delivering his annual address on the State of the City at City Hall, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti returned to the UCLA Lab School where he had “the most important educational experience of my life.”
Approximately 100 UCLA faculty members who were once first-generation college students are participating in a new effort to offer support and encouragement to current first-generation UCLA students as well as prospective students.
UCLA’s Office of Information Technology has released the Online Polling Tool, a web-based polling tool that’s accessible through computers and mobile devices, to receive and display responses from students as they sit in their classrooms.
South African prisoners, sickened miners and others whose human rights have been violated are gaining access to justice, thanks to a UCLA School of Law program that offers full scholarships and training to African lawyers who then take up their cause.
Now in its 20th year, the UCLA Law Fellows program, run by UCLA School of Law, demystifies law school for undergraduates from various colleges and universities, who aspire to law careers.
The public school is envisioned as a cornerstone for a rigorous, personalized college-prep education, tailored to the needs of its neighborhood and drawing on expertise from UCLA.
The percentage of black students who attend completely or almost-completely non-white schools has declined since the 1990s but remains above 70 percent.
Sarah Bang was once the liaison connecting K-12 UCLA Community School and UCLA. Now at UCLA, she supports UCLA Community School graduates as UCLA students.