UCLA in the community

A new public service campaign will inform apartment tenants about the risks of secondhand smoke and provide tools for working with landlords on smoke-free policies.

As a volunteer surgeon for more than 20 years, Freymiller performs life-changing dental surgery on children with cleft lips and cleft palate deformities.

Volunteer scientists, graduate students and staff from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA set up a booth to demystify nanoscience in fun ways.

The university committed to providing $1.15 million annually in support of new programs and services, plus in-kind contributions, as well as paying fair-market rent for the continued use of Jackie Robinson Stadium.

An expert discussion jointly sponsored by UCLA and Zocálo, explored the ethical challenges around death that arise in an age of tremendous advances in medical treatment.

About 50 UCLA students, staff and alumni spent their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday building planter boxes, planting fruits and vegetables and painting at the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center.

At an emotional event, the Sincuir family met three of the 27 people who had donated 50 units of blood products to save Jorge Sincuir’s life.

“Revision” allows anyone to aggregate data from various public and private sources to create a complete picture of neighborhood change.

Among the topics discussed at the inaugural UCLA-Tata Global Forum in New Delhi were sustainable megacities, the integration of solar power into smart energy grids and sustainable biological fuels.

A Ph.D. student at UCLA has created a startup with a friend that offers a geolocation-based app to assist instructors with taking class attendance while helping students keep up with deadlines. But there’s a twist.

College-going rates have soared in the area around the UCLA Community School, which opened in L.A.'s Koreatown in 2009.

Michelle Caswell, an assistant professor of archival studies at UCLA, has helped launch an online archive that compiles first-person narratives.

UCLA Anderson alumna Sandy Tesch Wilkins is part of a solid core of Anderson students and alumni who are intent on putting their business skills to use in positive ways to have social impact.

UCLA Newsroom revisits some of our favorite news items from the year. Publishing resumes on Jan. 4.

The initiative will allow the next generation of leaders and change agents to understand and improve the health of veterans, and of the nation.

Families OverComing Under Stress, or FOCUS, was able to reduce the most problematic psychological and emotional symptoms of men and women in the military, their spouses and their children for half of its participants.

A panel of UCLA experts examine the causes and consequences of the terrorist attacks in Paris and how to deal with ISIS.

As part of an international competition, they created the “Safe Spot” campaign to undermine the recruiting tactics of the Islamic State group by using the Internet to foster ideals of acceptance, safety and community.

A delegation from UCLA met Monday with students at John Muir High School in Pasadena to urge them to consider going to a UC campus.

A team of scientists led by professor Stephanie Pincetl is beginning to measure the efficiency of homes and offices throughout Los Angeles.

Landmark gift will support facility renovations, faculty and curriculum development, and a financial aid program for low- and middle-income families.

All are invited to attend Nov. 10 to hear remarks by two distinguished military servicemen and Chancellor Block that will be part of the UCLA’s Veterans Day ceremony.

Guests can launch a rocket, take a peek at planets outside our solar system, make a cloud in a bottle and get up close and personal with dinosaur fossils and meteorites.

AirForU is useful for anyone who sees a hazy skyline and wonders how safe it is to breathe outside air.

Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Homeboy Industries’ Father Greg Boyle are among those who take part in the discussion.