UCLA for Life: Meyer Luskin
Now a centenarian, the esteemed philanthropist — who, with his wife, Renee, has donated close to $200 million to UCLA — remains as true a Bruin as ever.
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Game Change: Ann Meyers Drysdale
It was only one sentence, but it changed everything in college sports.
The Vegan Campus
UCLA experts in diverse disciplines are exploring how vegetarianism can boost human health and alleviate a host of environmental challenges.
East Meets West in UCLA Medicine
UCLA’s vaunted health-care system has established itself as a national leader in the integration of Eastern ideas and approaches into Western medicine.
Making Champions: UCLA Women’s Head Coaches on the Secrets of Their Success
Female teams have won 14 of UCLA’s last 18 NCAA titles. Four of their coaches discuss the pressures and rewards of what they do.
The Clutter Culture
UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families continues its fascinating study of contemporary suburban America.
About a Boy: Nancy Cartwright
Emmy Award–winner Nancy Cartwright ’81 has lived a double life — hers, and the role that made the accomplished voice actress world-famous: Bart Simpson.
Life Signs: Remember It Well: How to Learn Better
If the goal is to retain knowledge, research shows that commonly held beliefs about how to go about it are misguided. You need to relearn how to remember.
Hail to the Hills: Brother Bruin: The Extraordinary Life of Buck Compton
A Bruin who excelled on the battlefield, on the playing field and in the courtroom.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Setting the Record Straight
At an early age, this Bruin determined to tell the stories of great African Americans who are mostly left out of history books.
Al Scates: 50 Years of Bruin Volleyball
No athletic program at UCLA has won more victories or titles in the past half-century than Al Scates’ Bruin men’s volleyball teams.
From Garvey to Obama
Marcus Garvey, the larger-than-life 20th-century African-American activist, left a large and sometimes swashbuckling legacy.
Immigration: Now and in the Future
UCLA faculty and alumni experts examine their impact on the immigration issue with policy makers and the public alike.
Team Rubicon: Disaster Relief
Joshua Maverick Webster ’09, a past president of the Military Veterans Organization at UCLA, served four tours of duty in Afghanistan.
A Conference Center Could Be Coming Soon
An on-site conference center moves inexorably toward reality. Deans, professors and friends of the university say it can’t happen soon enough.
Quick Take: Bear Wear: Stylish Around the World
UCLA is a coveted lifestyle brand across Europe and Asia.
Digital Privacy
UCLA leads the way in exploring the boundaries of privacy in a digital world — and how policymakers should respond.
Light It Up
Why isn’t there more solar power in sun-drenched Los Angeles? The technology is there, but the will is not. But that’s changing fast.
Driven by Data: Inventing a New Digital Art
From airplane patterns to Johnny Cash songs to crowdsourced digital sheep, techno-artist Aaron Koblin uses online data to explore new frontiers in digital arts.
Bruins in Love
Westwood has been a catalyst for Love since it first opened — a UCLA tradition of the finest kind. Here’s how the campus played matchmaker for a few couples.
Being Bruin: By the Numbers
Think you know about UCLA athletics history? Here’s your chance to prove it.
Quick Take: Different Tracks
Alumni Shane Acker will direct a live-action feature about Thomas the Tank Engine.
Clean the Skies
UCLA researchers are creating solutions and making science that can help us all breathe easier.
Double Dribble
Bruin basketball fans are looking forward to the 2011–12 season to catch their first look at David and Travis Wear, the highly recruited McDonald’s All-American twins.
Rise Again: The L.A. Rebellion
The UCLA Film & Television Archive celebrates the filmmakers who told authentic stories about the black experience.
Safety First
In 2008, a tragic accident in a campus lab profoundly shook the Bruin community. In response, UCLA didn’t just revise its policies; it innovated.