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Jean Paul Santos will compete May 4 against other campus winners of Grad Slam. His speech, “How to Talk to Mars,” helped him win UCLA's inaugural competition.

UCLA’s Life Sciences has been awarded a four-year $2.4 million federal grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance and transform undergraduate education.

In Grad Slam, UCLA graduate students ditch the jargon of their disciplines to see who can come up with the best mini-presentation in plain English.

Students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television made the videos to provide insight into how young adults can handle circumstances related to alcohol use and sexual consent, micro-aggressions and body image.

Love of punk music and a passion for activism inspire a UCLA musicology professor who studies the nuclear legacy of the Marshall Islands and plays guitar in a band.

Eleven UCLA graduate and professional programs are among the top 10 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s annual survey. Another 16 programs are included in the top 25.

Bryan Kirschen has become a tireless advocate for the endangered language that is often described as the Spanish equivalent of Yiddish.

Dental students taking the “Medical Improv” class learn techniques to be more relaxed and confident when they deal with patients.

UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Isaac Yang will receive the prestigious National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Medical Student Association.

With little access to arts education in their schools, roughly 4,400 local children have benefited from the expertise of students and graduates who teach as part of the UCLA's Visual and Performing Arts Education program.

For 20 years master’s students in the social welfare program have learned firsthand about homelessness by going to downtown Los Angeles. Some never left.

Many UCLA students have opted to forego a summer of classes or a job, instead accepting unpaid internships to broaden their horizons and get a more focused look at a possible career or field of study.

A non-credit UCLA class for international students and foreign faculty teaches idioms, pop culture and campus life, with a new emphasis on slang, L.A. neighborhoods and foodie havens.

For 14 years the program has helped students from historically underrepresented groups prepare for graduate school.

UCLA architecture and urban design students helped create a fully functional microhouse built using 3-D printing technology.

Getting into Neil Garg's course "was like ‘The Hunger Games,'" said one student. "I know people who waited two years to get in. People have celebratory dances when they learn they’re enrolled."

Students at UCLA create interactive stories using Google Glass that show how wearable technology could alter the idea of narrative.

UCLA's Career Center, Graduate Division and collaborators campuswide have ramped up services to ready graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for successful, satisfying careers in and out of academia.

Approximately 600 students will be presenting their research in the humanities and the social, life and physical sciences.

Doctoral students in UCLA's new Dissertation Launchpad program learn to communicate about their complex research in ways the rest of us can understand.

Becoming a formal department would bolster UCLA's scholarship and opportunities in African American studies.

In the magazine's 2015 rankings, more than two dozen UCLA schools and programs were rated among the top in the U.S., reflecting the campus's broad academic excellence.

The campus also maintained its status as one of the world's top 10 schools overall in the London Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.

The proposal seeks to build on the increasing popularity of the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies by converting it to a full academic department.

Studying the depictions of garbage in art, documenatry and pop culture forces us to talk about a topic many consider taboo and trivial.