Students + Campus

A little-known piano in Schoenberg Hall, a gift from the estate of actor Edward G. Robinson, bears the signatures of some of the 20th century’s greatest composers and musicians.

From remote scientific research stations to an urban art gallery and a downtown health clinic, UCLA’s influence is felt all over. How many do you know?

UCLA will honor seven outstanding alumni, Waxman, Ortega, Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, Kathleen Dracup, Ann Wang, Jessica Willison and Albert Aubin, at ceremonies on May 16.

For UCLA’s spring Faculty Research Lecture, Kristal, the chair of UCLA’s comparative literature department and a professor of Spanish, will share his life-long love of the Argentine author Jorge Louis Borges.

A year-long focus will be the massive contribution of women in all art forms. The season begins Oct. 8 with “Desdemona.”

Panelists will be Olympian Rafer Johnson, Dodgers great Tommy Davis, former Fox Broadcasting exec Ron Taylor and UCLA lecturer Paul Von Blum.

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.

Leading scholars, clergy and activists will convene at UCLA on May 3 and 4 to examine the ongoing influence of the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

At an event held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA, more than 100 youngsters from Tom Bradley Elementary School in Los Angeles listened to a rebroadcast of that same speech.

Graduate student delegates will go to Sacramento for informal chats with state legislators in order to win their support.

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.

The launch of UCLA startups has resulted in the creation of more than 4,400 jobs and contributed a total of $1.1 billion to the economy.

On Tuesday, April 28, the campus community, together with 2,000 K-12 students, will gather for events to commemorate the day 50 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited UCLA and addressed nearly 5,000.

Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000 after retiring from his position as Microsoft’s chief strategist and chief technology officer. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UCLA in 1979.

UCLA students once again deliver big time at the 14th annual student-run Dance Marathon.

Attend lectures, see a ‘green chef’ competition or appreciate art in celebration of Earth Day.

The strength and conditioning facility inside the football team’s new training complex will be named in honor of the former Bruin quarterback and Pro Football Hall of Famer.

Spring Sing, an annual showcase for talented students, features a top-tier selection of performers who compete for top honors. This year's event will be held May 16 at Pauley Pavilion.

More than 200 university undergraduate students will compete April 24-26 at UCLA’s 2015 DataFest competition.

The Bruins offered hitting and fielding instruction to veterans and hosted a barbecue at the team’s longtime home field, Jackie Robinson Stadium.

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.

The new Career Closet provides UCLA students with gently used business attire that they can keep and wear to interviews for work or interviews for a job, internship, graduate school or professional networking events.

Nearly 13,500 campus guests, including 4,457 admitted freshmen, came to UCLA Saturday to learn about the world-class academic opportunities and campus lifestyle that make the Westwood campus the best place to start their college career in fall 2015.

As part of their degree work, a team of UCLA Anderson students went to Italy and India to learn about LGBT policies and challenges that people face in the workplace there.

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.