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Across medicine, environmental studies, public policy, the social sciences and beyond, UCLA scholars in 2025 continued turning discovery into real-world impact.

The award recognizes a distinguished leader who is an inspiration to students, families and health care professionals. 

Read about the dedication of faculty, staff, students and alumni to service, collaboration, connection and kindness.

Generous benefactors fueled discovery, expanded access to education and created new pathways for impact. 

Highlights from CalMatters, Spectrum News 1, Los Angeles Times’ “De Los” and others.

Check out 13 of the year's most unusual discoveries, which prove groundbreaking science doesn’t always look serious at first glance.

Read about the standout performances, major transitions and alumni who made headlines on the biggest stages in sports.

The collaboration will accelerate clinical trial readiness and implementation for people with autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.

Most campus administrative operations will be closed or will operate with reduced services from Dec. 24 through Jan. 2.

The professor, who leads UCLA’s Plasma Accelerator Group, is the first holder of the Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair in Excellence.

UCLA College’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” podcast explores folklore, festivity and the afterlife with scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly.

Urban junco bills at UCLA became more like mountain junco bills.

The professor was honored for his contributions to mobile sensing, computational imaging, microscopy and medical diagnostics.

Highlights from The Hollywood Reporter, Scientific American, KABC-TV and others.

The distinguished professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, died Nov. 14.

In case you missed ’em, these were our favorite stories of the year.

UCLA study finds gut microbes are evolving differently in industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world.

The news of deadly shootings near and far is devastating. 

Highlights from the New York Times, Variety, Science and others.

Lecturer Cailey Hall evokes appreciation for the author by comparing originals like “Pride and Prejudice” with modern takes.

Diversity behind and in front of the camera continues to slip, even as underrepresented stories pull in audiences.

Supportive school settings produced fewer positive effects and deepened targeted students’ isolation, new research shows.

He studies how physical, social-organizational and cultural contexts in schools relate to different kinds of bullying and school violence.

Highlights from The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Futurism and others.

Learn more about the legendary actor, director and political activist's decades-long connection to and support for the university.