UCLA in the Community

A UCLA study found that amputation rates were 10 times higher in California's poorest neighborhoods, like Compton and East Los Angeles, than in the richest ones.

In an interview, Randy Newman, who attended UCLA, explains how growing up and living in Los Angeles as influenced him. The event was part of the "Thinking L.A." series co-sponsored by UCLA and Zócalo Public Square.

Nearly 4 in 10 Los Angeles County residents live in environmentally vulnerable communities burdened by air pollution and other risk factors, according to a study by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and The Environmental Defense Fund.

Law students shoulder a heavy responsibility as they work for months to prepare a man from Africa for his one chance at being granted asylum.

A summer camp run by UCLA students offers unprivileged 10- to 18-year-olds from Los Angeles a chance to see the outdoors, learn teamwork and get motivated about college.

Fifty-four members from UCLA were accepted to the national nonprofit dedicated to community service, more than from any other school in the country.

Steven Lopez has earned UCLA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for expanding the outreach of a campus group that makes students from underrepresented groups aware of science careers.

It's been 30 years this month since UCLA was transformed into an international Olympic Village, when residence halls housed over 4,000 people, Bruin Walk bustled with activity, and over 160,000 spectators roared at Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA students who have been taking classes in American Sign Language have created videos of themselves signing information on the Holocaust to give deaf visitors to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance a richer experience as they tour the exhibits.

UCLA linguist Pamela Munro started a Facebook page to revive and promote the Tongva language, once spoken by Southern California's Gabrielino-Tongva Indians. Through social media, their descendants are now learning words, phrases and songs in Tongva.

Among the group's other recommendations: household water meters that measure indoor and outdoor water use separately, and stronger incentives for drought-resistant landscaping.

The UCLA Burkle Global Impact Initiative assisted in recruiting a diverse roster of film and music stars to appear in a new video for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In an event co-sponsored by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. and others disagree on Mayor Garcetti’s first year in office.

Furnish the Homeless, an organization founded by three UCLA students in 2012, takes unwanted furniture and appliances from students and others living near campus and delivers them to those living in transitional housing.

A UCLA institute that's searching for the best cost-effective health care practices and programs in L.A. County showcased the latest innovations in use by a dozen agencies and hospitals.

A group of Los Angeles K-12 teachers participated in a special two-day seminar at UCLA on using soccer in the classroom as a way to teach politics, economics and globalization.

Reporting, writing and editing for the Bruin's Roar helps UCLA Community School students improve their English language skills and confidence.

The Anderson Forecast has partnered with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's office to help launch a new online open data portal called DataLA to make information readily available to residents.

Deanna Jordan, a first-generation college student and mother of three, has been motivated by her children to embark on a long struggle to get a college education and give back to her Compton community.

An unprecedented 95 percent of the graduates are headed to UC campuses, Cal States or other institutions of higher learning.

Despite the fact that early Japanese immigrants to California faced discrimination on multiple levels, one group that arrived in northern California showed little bitterness, according to a little-known documentary that recently resurfaced after 30 years.

A small group of law students from UCLA has helped community advocates add their voice to the debate over who should oversee the investigation of inmate abuse and monitor what's going on in L.A. county jails.

Dental student Ryan Brennan made it possible for 200-plus patients to get dental care. Urban planning student Connor Johnson has a similar passion to help people in poverty.

Brian Lehigh, Tara Noorani and Michael Oshiro were recognized for projects serving impoverished veterans, the homeless and incarcerated youth.

A unique partnership between UCLA and the LAUSD, the pilot school, which serves a largely low-income immigrant community, has made impressive strides in engendering educational success and promoting a college-going culture.