Students + Campus

India Carney, a senior at UCLA and a singer at major campus events, was selected as one of 20 finalists vying to win the eighth season of NBC’s “The Voice.”

UCLA students are going dark for Earth Hour on March 28, by turning off the lights free for an hour to join the international event raising awareness about climate change and energy usage.

Erika Green Swafford, a writer on one of the hottest new crime shows, found her UCLA degree helped her land a position on the creative side of the entertainment industry.

More than 92,000 UCLA applicants found out last night if they were admitted. Here are some of their emotional celebrations on social media.

Biochemistry student Jeffrey Vinokur is the Dancing Scientist, whose zany science experiments have been featured on national TV shows, on YouTube and in school auditoriums.

Just a few weeks ago, third-year M.F.A. student Emma Kragen was concentrating on advancing her thesis project at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Now the emerging cinematographer is assembling waterproof snow gear.

UCLA's new on-campus basketball training and performance facility that will house the Bruins' storied men's and women's basketball programs will be named the Mo Ostin Basketball Center, it was announced today by Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero.

After nearly a month of turning off the lights, doing laundry with cold water and taking the stairs instead of the elevator, UCLA students are currently a close second in a competition among residence halls to see which UC campus can save the most energy.

Siva Rajananda, a second-year student from Malaysia, will compete in a campus race this weekend.

Astronaut and three-time UCLA alumna Anna Lee Fisher addressed a roomful of students Monday at a UCLA Careers in Chemistry and Biochemistry to talk about her career and the lessons she learned while she attended UCLA.

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.

Only 36 percent of commuters drive alone, according to UCLA’s annual State of the Commute report.

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.

UCLA’s Graduate Division and Graduate Student Association are teaming up to create UCLA’s first Grad Slam, a combination training ground and competition to determine who best can deliver an engaging, three-minute research presentation that anyone can comprehend.

These old songs in UCLA’s Sheet Music Collection show that love songs aren’t what they used to be.

Sixteen UCLA students have received fellowships for projects that focus on food, ranging from making documentaries to constructing new campus gardens.

More than 800 people gathered in Royce Hall to applaud the courage of 16 civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — who challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.

The University of California will require incoming students to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.

UCLA mascot Joe Bruin was invited to take part in a friendly dance-off with USC's Tommy Trojan on last night's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC. We know who won.

Anthem, Inc. disclosed on Feb. 4 that it was the target of a very sophisticated cyber attack that potentially compromised information about UC students, retirees, employees and their dependents.

A group of nursing students and faculty members on an educational mission were enthusiastically welcomed in Havana following news of closer relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

UCLA will honor alumni who joined a mass protest in 1961 and became Freedom Riders to protest segregation encountered by African Americans when they traveled between states on buses, trains and used public facilities.

About 400 community-engaged courses are offered, and hundreds of thousands of hours of community service are performed by UCLA students, staff and faculty each year.