Students + Campus

The civil rights icon delivered the fifth annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture to a rapt audience and also received the university’s highest honor.

The event featured Terry George, an Academy Award-nominated writer and director; Dr. Eric Esrailian of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and Stephen D. Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation.

UCLA sophomore Luke Mostert is a partner in a business that donates lanterns to children who live in shacks in electricity-deprived sections of his home country.

The more than 100 public events include exhibitions at campus museums and galleries; lectures by artists, alumni and faculty; and performances by students and professionals.

The UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame inductee and LAPD trailblazer has earned numerous accolades for her accomplishments off the basketball court.

The National Medal of Arts recipient and nine-time Grammy winner will receive the campus’s highest honor on June 16.

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.

Screams, emoji and tears of joy echoed across the internet Friday, as thousands of high school seniors learned they were admitted to UCLA’s class of 2021 this fall.

This year, St. Patrick's Day coincided with Match Day, the day when 40,000 aspiring doctors nationwide find out simultaneously which hospitals have accepted them for 30,000 residency slots across the United States.

More than 50 UCLA students, staff, faculty and alumni visited legislative offices on March 8 to share their stories about how the university changed their lives for the better and to call for additional state funding.

The program started in 2001 with 36 participants from disadvantaged homes in Los Angeles. Eight years later, Martin was at the White House to receive the nation’s highest honor for an arts-based youth program.

Its growing popularity comes from the stimulating conversations and warm camaraderie that dinner guests and hosts embrace.

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.

UCLA’s extensive water-saving program garnered the Water Efficiency Project of the Year award, presented by the environmentally focused organization the Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge at its third annual Innovation Awards ceremony.

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.

Bret Stephens gave an eloquent, impassioned defense of the truth and the journalist’s responsibility to search it out.

UCLA hosted Richard Riordan, James Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa as part of the “Why History Matters: Mayors Past on the Present and Future of Los Angeles.”

A team of canine cupids made a special delivery to hospitalized, pediatric patients at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, on Valentine’s Day. 

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music joins the international music community with a program of chamber works, panels and lectures honoring Adams as he turns 70.

An internationally renowned team of musicians, composers, computer scientists, visual artists and fashion designers redefine the classical concert experience.

When protests erupted after President Trump signed his executive order on immigration last month, more than 200 UCLA School of Law students jumped into action.

From linen-free tables and wine kegs to maximum use of natural light and recycled steel, the new UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center leads the way in sustainability.

Two medical students receive national recognition for their efforts to fight health care disparities.

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.

Lineup features more than two dozen performances by student ensembles as well as programs and master classes by faculty artists, composers, scholars and guest artists.