UCLA in the Community

Students, staff and alumni helped prepare the soil for new trees, flower and shrubs in the garden around the historic towers.

In a new book, a UCLA historian explores the vast network of social clubs that helped Japanese-American girls navigate the prejudice and exclusion that they faced in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1950.

Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, evaluates the factors that have stunted the growth of the Los Angeles job market over the past several decades.

UCLA public policy student Janine Berridge has worked and traveled throughout Africa to gain the experience she needs to continue to improve the lives of those in need.

The annual Dance Marathon is UCLA’s largest student fundraising event, raising funds for pediatric HIV/AIDS

UCLA students had a lot of opportunities this spring break to travel near and far in order to grow intellectually as well as personally through public service.

Deanna Jordan, a 28-year-old single mom whose personal journey took her from Compton to UCLA, launched the Compton Pipeline Taskforce to give back to her community.

Officials will break ground on facilities at the Los Angeles State Historic Park that will showcase innovative installations created at UCLA's IMLab as a result of a partnership between the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and California State Parks.

Becky Barber and Lyolya Hovhannisyan founded the UCLA chapter of Flying Samaritans in 2013. With volunteer doctors and other students, they bring quality medical care to Tijuana's Colonia Margarita Moran.

UCLA's TIE-INS Program, which places children of UCLA faculty and staff at public schools near campus, provides enrichment and intervention programs for the entire community.

At a "Thinking L.A." event co-presented by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, a panel discussed why racial diversity matters, how to bring more underrepresented students to campus and what can be done to make such students feel welcome at universities in California and around the country.

A team from the Fielding School of Public Health is working with East Los Angeles families to help them eat better.

When the worst typhoon in history devastated the Philippines last November, UCLA nurse Joanne Contreras e-mailed Dr. David Feinberg, president of the UCLA Health System and CEO of the UCLA Hospital System.

In the debate about which plant and animal species endangered by climate change should be rescued and which are expendable, a small band of UCLA botanists is fervently championing a desert plant most of us have never seen or heard of.

In the city of Oxnard, one of the largest suppliers of strawberries for California, the majority of the pickers are indigenous farmworkers from one of the poorest regions in Mexico.

Faculty at the Fielding School of Public Health are working with community members in L.A.'s Boyle Heights to transform junk-food peddling markets into healthy food oases.

UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies joined the Los Angeles Unified School District and nonprofit Code.org to collectively launch the Los Angeles segment of National Computer Science Education Week at the UCLA Community School Dec. 10.

So few Angelenos voted this year that Eric Garcetti was elected mayor with just 222,300 votes — the same number it took to get elected mayor in the 1930s, when L.A. was half its present size. At a “Thinking L.A.” event Thursday...

Los Angeles County has a rare opportunity to make sweeping and necessary improvements to the way it rehabilitates incarcerated youth as it moves forward with a project to replace Camp Vernon J. Kilpatrick, a dilapidated all-boys camp in the hills...

 Catherine Opie, whose photographs have been exhibited in some of the finest art museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Japan, will soon be showing her newest work to people on the run.

Students at predominantly Latino Roosevelt High School are reaching beyond their own neighborhood and culture to study the language, music and traditional theater of China through the Chinese Alive! program.   A...

Radiologists are studying an extremely rare 14-foot, 250-pound oarfish that washed ashore near San Diego last month to trace the evolution of its skeleton and unique swimming style.

More than 4,000 people swarmed the Court of Sciences and Kinsey Pavilion to participate in a scientific open house where children (and adults) could learn by observing and participating in dozens of live demos and experiments.

Los Angeles, is a city of two food worlds that collide at the Grand Central Market downtown. Thinking L.A., sponsored by UCLA, took up the topic.

Thirty years ago, the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. contacted the UCLA School of Nursing with an intriguing request: Would the school be interested in providing services to homeless adults and children staying at the mission?