Students + Campus

Two Olympians have already started their athletic careers as Bruins. Collectively, the "Freshman Four" are looking forward to immersing themselves in the student experience in Westwood.

While UCLA’s Volunteer Day is an annual event — in fact, the nation’s largest community participation event for new students — its impact on both new students and the community partners they serve far outlasts the day itself.

Members of the Anderson class of 2018 soared to new heights at an orientation session devoted to personal development and team-building activities as they tackled the challenge course at UCLA's Sunset Canyon Recreation Center.

This year’s True Bruin Welcome, which runs Sept. 15 to 29, features dozens of events, including festivals, concerts, film screenings, networking events and tours.

A week before thousands of students stream onto campus for the start of the academic year, The Bruin got a little TLC. The five-step "spa treatment" includes a thorough cleaning, followed by a mineral wash and a heat-intensive treatment to open up the pores.

The all-time Bruin basketball great has been a prolific writer and advocate for equality.

UCLA graduate student Osceola Ward leads Outward Bound trips for teens in underserved communities to give them the tools to make their voices heard on environmental issues.

Law students in the Criminal Defense Clinic at UCLA School of Law worked on a successful clemency petition that will free Darnell Crookshank.

How can 50 million Americans not know where their next meal is coming from while 40 percent of food gets wasted?

Students in “Intro to Oceanography” spoof music videos for the sake of science.

Developing a story and a character as the basis for their floor routines have become the hallmark of UCLA gymnastics, thanks to coach Valorie Kondos Field and her talented team.

Thanks to the record generosity of UCLA students, the campus transformed old clothes into more than $1,600 for UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital this week.  

Blake Krikorian, who played on UCLA's water polo team for four years between 1986 and 1989, died Wednesday, Aug. 3 while surfing in the San Francisco area.

First-year medical students enrolled in Doctoring 1 join in hospital chaplain rounds.

From medal winners to being the site of historic firsts, UCLA and the Olympics go way back.

A total of 36 UCLA Bruins have made Olympic rosters for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, including 29 current, incoming or former student-athletes.

The team trained this week on UCLA’s North Athletic Field in advance of a Wednesday match against Liverpool FC at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola returned to UCLA, his alma mater, to run an experimental workshop to test his concept for Live Cinema, a new kind of movie-making that combines the best of filmmaking, television and live theater.

Our updated list of UCLA students, alumni and staff in the Summer Games. There has been a Bruin in every Summer Olympics except one since 1920.

UCLA lecturer Andy Rice introduces his students to entomophagy, bug eating, which may someday become a smart alternative to resource-intensive foods such as beef.

Rick Martinez found himself back on the campus where he sought shelter when he was homeless. This time, he was enrolled in a program to develop skills to launch a business.

When Luz Corona Gomez picked up her M.D. degree last June from UCLA's medical school, her parents and four sisters proudly celebrated with her. All five daughters in this family of farmworkers have college degrees.

UCLA is sending 28 Olympians to Brazil so far. Incoming freshman Mallory Pugh is the youngest member of the U.S. women's soccer team.

Incoming UCLA freshman Madison Kocian was selected to the 2016 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team after a world-class showing on the uneven bars.

UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams, will lead the design and engineering work needed to build the first presidential library that will be located in a predominantly African-American urban setting.