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.
Latest Stories
The Character Question
Bad behavior has always been with us, but today’s “gotcha journalism” is making sin and scandal a daily public spectacle.
The Scientist and the Cure
Janis Giorgi is fighting to find a vaccine against AIDS. But outside of the lab she is engaged in a struggle on another front — to save her own life.
Timor Witness
For the U.N. workers trapped inside their walled compound in the city of Dili, the worst part was telling the terrified refugees that the U.N. was leaving.
Next Stop: Mars
When the Mars Polar Lander touches down on the surface of the Red Planet in December, Westwood will be at the center of a historic interplanetary adventure.
When Memory Comes
For Saul Friedlander, the study of the Holocaust is more than an academic exercise. It is personal history.
Living With the Global City
Far from growing obsolete as we move into the next century, cities are becoming the engines driving the world economy.
Royce Revived
One positive legacy of the 1994 earthquake: UCLA’s Royce Hall is a better building than it ever was before.
Modern Times
Today Hollywood is powered by a generation trained in university cinema studies programs. UCLA’s film school is one of the first and best.
Social Evolution
From a Quonset hut to the Watts riots to the Computer Age: 40 years inside Social Welfare.
That Championship Season
The undaunted women of the 1978-’79 Bruin hoops team didn’t notice they were making history. They were too busy playing basketball.
To Save Two Lives
Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil and the UCLA liver transplant team are pioneering a procedure that makes the sickest of the sick whole again.
Boo Who?
Root long and hard for your favorite team, but try to keep the games we watch and play in perspective.
Avant-Garde Academy
UCLA’s department of art trains ambitious students to be thoughtful rabble-rousers.
Hearts Afire
In a land renowned for its revolutionaries, a handful of UCLA-led doctors may be waging the most critical battle for the hearts of a new generation of Peruvian poor.
In a League of Their Own
Twenty-five years ago, the woman athlete was born at UCLA — and sports, not to mention the school — have never been the same since.
Rising Star
The only thing more surprising than recent revelations about the existence of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be the scientist who discovered it.
Bruin Nobelity
Popular UCLA pharmacologist Louis Ignarro examined the therapeutic benefits of nitroglycerin and went on to make an explosive discovery.
Middle Ground
Between the extremist “drug warriors” and “legalizers” lies a third way of thinking about drug policy in America.
The Culprit Is Cancer
And closing in fast is Dennis Slamon and UCLA researchers, powered by support from philanthropists Lilly Tartikoff and Revlon CEP Ronald O. Perelman.
The Man Who Knows Too Much
Pulitzer Prize-winning human multiprocessor Jared Diamond has a lot on his mind.
View From the Hot Seats
Bob Toledo and Steve Lavin talk about pressure, the press, winning and losing, and playing for keeps.
Shame of a Nation
A daring new CD-ROM by the Film and Television Archive takes us inside — and face to face with — the horrors of America’s concentration camps.
Utopia
UCLA’s profound “spirit of place” — a quality missing in so much of contemporary life — grows out of thoughtful planning and careful development.
