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A year after the Boston bombings, UCLA's most accomplished distance runner wins with a time of 2:08:37.

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The newly admitted students include 9,128 California high school seniors, 83 percent of whom graduated in the top 9 percent of their classes, as well as highly qualified students from 48 other states, the District of Columbia, and 77 countries.

Becoming a formal department would bolster UCLA's scholarship and opportunities in African American studies.

The gift will support research and policy fellows; fund student scholarships and a public service fellowship; support outreach, events and speaker series; and provide resources to attract faculty.

Marjorie Eloise Lund Crump, who did significant work in public service and entrepreneurship and who, together with her husband Ralph, was a major supporter of UCLA, died of natural causes on April 1 at her home in Trumbull, Conn.   Over

Promoting healthy lifestyle choices, UCLA's Healthy Campus Initiative has funded 13 new projects proposed by student organizations.

We need to proceed cautiously, says UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, lest low-income students are forced into online degree programs as the only affordable option.

Aaron S. Cohen, a Southern California engineering entrepreneur and an influential and generous supporter of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, died on March 21 in Los Angeles.

Hosted by Jeanne and Tony Pritzker, the star-studded event raised $650,000 to support UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability research and education initiatives.

After receiving the campus’s highest honor, the secretary-general spoke of efforts to mobilize citizens around the world to help address issues including climate change and women’s rights.

The internationally respected arts curator comes to UCLA from the School of Performing Arts at Australia’s University of Melbourne. Her tenure begins May 1.

Powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley.

The fifth installment of the annual conference will be held at UCLA on April 4 and will feature panelists from industry and academia discussing the forces shaping TV production and consumption in the 21st century.

In the magazine's 2015 rankings, more than two dozen UCLA schools and programs were rated among the top in the U.S., reflecting the campus's broad academic excellence.

More than 4,000 UCLA researchers, staff and student lab personnel picked up lab coats, eyewear and other protective gear during a weeklong event in the Pauley Pavilion Club Room.

The exhibtion examines the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between individuals and communities in Africa and the land on which they live.

The campus also maintained its status as one of the world's top 10 schools overall in the London Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.

The former secretary of state offered her observations about the turmoil in Ukraine and offered advice to UCLA students about how they could help reinvent the U.S. economy for the 21st century.

The UCLA alumnus will also receive UCLA's highest honor, the UCLA Medal, which previously has been awarded to such luminaries President Bill Clinton, basketball coach John Wooden, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and UCLA alumna and astronaut Anna Lee Fisher.

Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, "Twelve Years a Slave," is the basis for this year’s Academy Award best picture nominee of the same name.

The Academy Award–nominated director of "12 Years a Slave" will speak Feb. 28 as part of a new series that looks at the power of storytelling to educate and influence social change.

"Much of the world’s sorrow can be traced to cycles of retribution, where one group seeks revenge for real or imagined wrongs done by another," Power said.

One of the first such platforms implemented by a large university, UCLA Spark utilizes social media to connect donors with faculty and students across campus.

Friedlander, a pioneering Holocaust historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, will donate a portion of his share of the $1 million award to UCLA.