UCLA in the Community

Prime Time Games brings full-inclusion sports teams of students from disadvantaged schools and the developmentally disabled to campus for a day with UCLA student-athletes as coaches and mentors.

UCLA’s annual United Way campaign, which helps provide housing, education and jobs for the less fortunate, runs May 26-June 5.

Dr. Atilla Uner, a UCLA clinical professor of emergency medicine, served on a U.S. search and rescue team that helped find survivors of the Nepal earthquake.

As part of UC Day in DC, a delegation from UCLA, including eight students, urged members of Congress to keep college accessible and affordable.

For 15 years the UCLA education research center has conducted workshops to help thousands of Los Angeles high school students prepare for their Advanced Placement exams.

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?

When the Griffith Park mountain lion crawls under someone’s house, or a brother and sister cross a freeway, Seth Riley is at the top of the list of scientists who can give the inside details.

Behavioral health intervention developed at UCLA will help female veterans and their families at new facility in San Pedro and more facilities in Long Beach.

Students at a high school in La Cañada Flintridge participate in a School of Nursing research project on congenital heart disease at the request of a beloved teacher.

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.

The new Veterans Benefits Legal Clinic helps veterans navigate what can be a complex path to receive the financial assistance for which they qualify.

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.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

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

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.

To reach a vulnerable population largely unaware of the health risks, a team from the Fielding School of Public Health held small group discussions in more than 50 Los Angeles-area Korean churches.

The UCLA Latin American Institute is presenting a lecture on chocolate and other community outreach activities to share the latest research findings on the Latin American region with L.A. residents.

About 60 UCLA staff members from Residential Life spent their St. Patrick's Day visiting the Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles Medical Center on Tuesday to lend a hand with gardening and several other projects

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.

Despite a 2013 city ordinance to limit the number of medical marijuana businesses, UCLA researchers found that more than three times that number were operating in 2014.

Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala and Burkle Global Impact Initiative Director Brian Gott attended an event at the White House Tuesday at the invitation of President and Mrs. Obama for the announcement of a new initiative under the “Let Girls Learn” campaign.

Pledge from Sound Body Sound Mind funds new partnership to combat childhood obesity; initiative will provide fitness equipment to L.A. schools.

Bryan Kirschen has become a tireless advocate for the endangered language that is often described as the Spanish equivalent of Yiddish.

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.