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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What Price Glory?
A “free” UC education costs a lot more today than five years ago. Ensuring affordable access to all qualified students is a complicated — and expensive — bit of business.
Memories of Powell
Our intrepid correspondent returns to the library and is relieved to discover that five years and a major face-lift later, the Powell she loved is warmer and more inviting.
Story Time
The UCLA community submits their best unpublished short stories for this magazine’s first-ever fiction package.
Pillars of the Community
Professors of excellence — Arnold Scheibel, Susan McClary, Ivan Szelenyi, Kris Gutierrez and Utpal Banerjee — stand and deliver daily for the benefit of their UCLA students.
Monopoly
An invisible line separated me and my friend Mary Beth. We were the daughters of very different families.
The Landscape of Destiny
To understand who’s on top in the modern world, you have to look back to the last Ice Age and the inherent environmental advantages the conquerors had over history’s less fortunate.
How to Do the Twist
The day after she took us to see “A Hole in the Head,” Mother went crazy. Still, she was a swell dancer.
Defiance
Unconcealed tears of grief signaled that this trip would be with the stunned seamen of the fishing vessel Defiance forever.
Wired!
Or, how close friendships, unbridled audacity and the pioneering spirit made UCLA the first site on the Internet and the New Frontier of computer networking.
The Prize
“The discoveries you make aren’t necessarily what you were looking for in the first place. It’s simply serendipity.”
The Prince of Pain
The late researcher and humanist John Liebeskind taught the world that there’s nothing wrong with admitting it hurts.
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Awards
For them, you’d go back to school. Five who teach us what teaching is all about.
A Student, a Teacher, a Place to Learn
For a university, the only gift greater than teaching knowledge is discovering how to use it.
On the White House Watch
Presidential scholar Robert Dallek, a master of the telling of great men’s lives, speaks for himself, reticently.