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UCLA will host its free, annual “Exploring Your Universe” event — UCLA’s day for the public to learn about science — this Sunday, Nov. 16, from 12 noon until 5 p.m., with some activities continuing until 8 p.m., weather permitting.

A UCLA study has found a trend at colleges toward teaching practices such as class discussions and group learning and away from lectures and other teacher-centered styles.

Contrary to long-standing concerns, disadvantaged students don’t pay a penalty for attending community colleges, according to a UCLA-led study.

On the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Dr. Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, and co-authors Kristen Savage and Aleta Sprague examine the progress made toward securing children’s rights around the world.

For over 15 years, the Senior Fellows Leadership Program has been helping to prepare UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs students for careers as change agents in the world by pairing them with leaders in their fields as mentors.

UCLA education professor Sylvia Hurtado’s research on the effect of campus climate on student academic progress as well as on student and faculty retention has caught the attention of many in higher education.

The UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hope to increase the diversity of faculty by attracting high-caliber researchers and providing them with the professional development training and opportunities to help them compete for highly selective tenure-track positions.

The new Parent Worker Project, run out of the UCLA Labor Center in partnership with SEIU United Service Workers West/Building Skills Partnership, helps janitors become effective advocates in their children’s education, starting with pre-school through third grade.

UCLA professor of education Sandra Graham, who has spent her career studying the effects of inequity in schools, is now having a direct influence on carrying out UCLA’s commitment to equity and diversity on this campus.

The UCLA Labor Center produces the nation's only storytelling radio show that focuses on workers and the issues they face. Students and community members work on Re:Work Radio and learn storytelling skills and multimedia production.

Elijah Ozuna is one of 13 new Bruins who were admitted after completing UCLA's highly successful Vice Provost Initiative for Pre-College Scholars program. To date, 97 percent of the program’s 250 core participants have enrolled in four-year colleges.

Utpal Banerjee, the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and chair of UCLA’s Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology in the UCLA College, will look at the important role of the fruit fly in helping scientists answer core questions about developmental biology.

Tyrone Howard of UCLA’s Black Male Institute says that a failure to intervene to help boys and men of color may have disastrous consequences for them and the country.

UCLA education professor Robert Rhoads and three faculty members from Chinese universities recently took a close look at four universities in Beijing. Rhoads discusses their findings in this Q&A.

A thick dossier of letters from faculty colleagues, administrators, students and alumni attesting to his devotion to diversity has led to Richard Yarborough's selection as the campuswide winner of UCLA's top award for diversity, equity and inclusion.

As the UCLA Community School nears its fifth anniversary, the college going rate for students in the area has increased dramatically. Ninety-five percent of last year's graduating seniors plan to go to college this fall.

Education professor Teresa McCarty says that decades of research shows that immersion programs promote language acquisition, increased graduation rates and college entry, as well as parent involvement and cultural pride.

Education professor Mike Rose says that teens and young adults headed for vocational careers deserve promises of employment stability and fulfilling work.

This summer marks the 10th anniversary of the UCLA-NUS Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific program, a 15-month, dual-degree program in which graduates earn two MBAs.

At 83, Sid Thompson, the first African American superintendent of Los Angeles schools 18 years ago, continues to mentor professionals in leadership in schools for Center X.

Launched in 2006, VIP Scholars aims to increase the number of underserved students that are competitively eligible for places like UCLA and other selective universities.

By encouraging patients to illustrate their pain with images such these from the exhibition "Pain," the Center for Educational Development and Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA hopes to compel viewers to better understand those going through illness.

Across California, there is a dearth of Spanish-speaking, culturally adept primary care physicians. The UCLA International Medical Graduate program is addressing this gap by training Hispanic international medical graduates from medical schools recognized by the Medical Board of California.

A new UCLA-led study suggests that a higher quality educational environment may help reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes.

The UCLA Burkle Global Impact Initiative assisted in recruiting a diverse roster of film and music stars to appear in a new video for the U.S. Agency for International Development.