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On Oct. 22 and 23, Joseph Martinus, a fourth-year English major and professionally trained chef, will be presenting three interactive cooking demonstrations as part of UCLA’s Food Day celebration.

uHearingTest, which lets people self-administer hearing tests, won an award in the Code for the Mission contest, which aimed to translate UCLA researchers’ expertise into public benefit.

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.

Demonstrations, film screenings, lectures and a special dinner are on the menu for campus consumers Oct. 22 - 24 as UCLA joins thousands of other organizations nationwide, including several UC campuses, to celebrate Food Day.

SACNAS at UCLA is trying to bring more Latinos and Native Americans into science and engineering, a crucial step to help the U.S. keep pace with the rest of the technological world.

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.

The proposal calls for College undergraduates to complete a course that substantially addresses racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, sexual orientation, religious or other types of diversity.

Campus visitors, students, faculty and staff should allow extra time when traveling to and from UCLA today and Friday because of street closures and possible traffic congestion.

The Center for the Art of Performance is presenting a week-long interactive art installation on Royce Quad to build understanding between veterans and civilians. It’s being offered in conjunction with a multimedia theatrical production, “Basetrack Live.”

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 2014-15 theater season features 13 events, including The Two Cities Project, and the Francis Ford Coppola One Act Marathon.

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.

Speaking at the first CTSI seminar of the academic year, Block told the audience about some of the challenges the university faces in the future and about the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship.

From concerts by guest performers and student ensembles to stunning exhibitions, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture has more than 75 public events coming up this quarter.

As part of its ongoing effort to better serve readers in the digital age, UCLA Magazine has launched its first iPad app.

“I look forward to an exhilarating and productive,” Block writes in his message to the UCLA campus community.

A UCLA undergraduate sociology student and grandmother of seven, Parvin Arman, 70, faced extraordinary obstacles in trying to attain an education in her native Iran.

Part of UCLA’s Office of Information Technology, Rose Rocchio and her team helped UCLA move to mobile and has positioned the campus to stay at the forefront of fast-moving technological developments.

Chancellor Gene Block formally welcomed new freshmen and transfer students to UCLA Sunday at the Los Angeles Tennis Center stadium as the campus prepares to kick off the 2014-15 academic year.

Volunteers worked at more than 40 schools, veterans centers, public parks, senior centers, community centers and homeless service providers.

Campus returned to life as thousands of students began moving into the residence halls. Those living in the newly renovated Hitch Residential Suites were greeted with a host of new amenities.

For UCLA's sixth annual Volunteer Day on Sept. 29, 7,300 Bruins will blanket Los Angeles County helping out at schools, veterans' sites, senior centers, shelters, parks and more, before classes even begin.

This year Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,” is being read by thousands of incoming freshman and transfer students, faculty, staff and alumni as part of the six-year-old UCLA Common Book program.

Twins Youstina and Marina Salama immigrated from Egypt at the age of 9 without knowing a word of English. They are now freshmen at UCLA who have their sights set on pursuing careers in medicine.

This week marks the return of approximately 28,700 undergraduates and 13, 500 graduate students to UCLA. The quarter officially begins on Sept. 29. Instruction begins on Oct. 2.

The University of California Board of Regents today approved President Janet Napolitano’s selection of Howard Gillman as the sixth chancellor of UC Irvine. Gillman is a three-time graduate of UCLA.