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Bruins and off-campus visitors tooled around north campus on Tuesday in Teslas and other electric vehicles during UCLA's Drive an Electric Vehicle event, part of National Drive Electric Week. Guests test-drove the Nissan LEAF, Chevy Volt and other vehicles.

Less than a year ago, Emily Gordon was a junior biochemistry major at UCLA aiming to become a lab researcher. Now, she’s being scouted to compete in the 2016 Olympics as a marathon runner although she had never run one before until last October.

Headed for a career in medicine, Megan Cory turned her own diagnosis of type 1 diabetes into an opportunity to do research, raise funds and help inform the public about ways to prevent diabetes.

Bruin Republicans help UCLA commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks by creating a memorial display of American flags in Dickson Plaza.

Campus officials estimate that approximately 2,500 UCLA students will qualify for $3 million in new assistance from California’s Middle Class Scholarship, approved by the legislature earlier this year.

Francisco J. López-Flores grew up living in the shadows to keep his identity as a Mexican national hidden. But under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, he has a work permit, a Social Security card and a future.

Directing graduate student Mark Columbus' short coming-of-age film will screen at the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival.

For the past quarter century, UCLA’s New Student and Transition Programs in the UCLA College’s Division of Undergraduate Education has been addressing issues related to sexual violence, sexual health, and alcohol and substance abuse during orientation as a way to help students better navigate their first year as Bruins.

Many UCLA students have opted to forego a summer of classes or a job, instead accepting unpaid internships to broaden their horizons and get a more focused look at a possible career or field of study.

UCLA is tops among the nation's selective colleges and universities for providing access to high-achieving students from lower-income families.

A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

The Student Leadership Academy places recent university graduates with different social justice organizations and labor unions in Southern California. The program is sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Labor Center.

A non-credit UCLA class for international students and foreign faculty teaches idioms, pop culture and campus life, with a new emphasis on slang, L.A. neighborhoods and foodie havens.

Hundreds of new new Bruins caught the beat of the Taiko Kyodo drummers from the Nikkei Student Union, one of numerous cultural groups that performed outside Ackerman Union on Tuesday, Aug. 12, as part of new student orientation for incoming freshmen.

Hidden away in the history department student lounge on the sixth floor of Bunche Hall is one of UCLA’s greatest treasures, but not many people knew it until an emeritus history professor pointed out its significance and landmark status.

Dozens of students from majors across campus have spent thousands of hours on building a loaf-of-bread-sized satellite that will measure space weather.

Parking structures have been declared safe for repairs. The damaged floor of Pauley Pavilion has been removed. Crews are working around the clock.

M.B.A. students took on the challenge to craft a business plan that cuts costs and increases training productivity.

A documentary about the 2011 UCLA quidditch team's bid for the sport's world cup started as a five-minute film class project. "Mudbloods” will open in select theaters this fall.

Those vehicles with the most serious water intrusion — approximately 340 — have been relocated to the vicinity of Jackie Robinson Stadium on the West Los Angeles campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sunset Boulevard has reopened.

About 300 vehicles that were in lower levels of flooded structures remain to be cleared for removal. Owners should await email instructions.

Across California, there is a dearth of Spanish-speaking, culturally adept primary care physicians. The UCLA International Medical Graduate program is addressing this gap by training Hispanic international medical graduates from medical schools recognized by the Medical Board of California.

As crews continue cleaning up from Tuesday’s water main break, Block thanks everyone for their patience, hard work, and generous assistance to their colleagues and strangers.

UCLA staff and students chip in to protect buildings, assist those stranded without cars and ease inconveniences for everyone in response to a water main break on Sunset Boulevard.

Campus crews and contractors worked throughout the night to remove water from UCLA buildings and clear debris. Officials pledge that Pauley Pavilion will be ready for basketball season.