UCLA in the community

Caley Versfelt, a Special Olympics World Games global messenger, has gained a lot of self-confidence and important skills through Special Olympics and several UCLA programs geared toward people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In the 47 years since Johnson helped found the games, the most important change has been in attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.

The final leg of the 2015 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics hit Westwood Thursday afternoon.

More than 100 UCLA Health employees will be staffing two clinics to ensure the health and well-being of spectators, Olympians, their coaches and chaperones.

History professor Brenda Stevenson writes that 150 years after emancipation in the United States, there are still 20 to 30 million people enslaved around the world.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games are ready to take center stage at UCLA.

Dismissing unrest in America’s cities as aimless violence overlooks the roots of people’s anger, according to the panelists at a UCLA-Zócalo event examining the history of urban resistance.

UCLA’s Dr. Matthew Waxman writes about the two months he spent in Sierra Leone treating people suffering from the deadly Ebola virus.

Obstacles, ranging from skyrocketing housing costs and insufficient state and federal funding to social stigma, are sending greater numbers of Americans onto the streets, said a UCLA-Zocalo panel of experts on homelessness.

UCLA UniCamp will move to Lake Perris for Session 1, June 20-26, due to the 10,000-acre wildfire burning in the San Bernardino Mountains near Camp River Glen.

Urban planning policy analyst Joan Ling, an adjunct professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, takes part in a Zócalo Public Square discussion at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 23.

UCLA will host California's first Paralympic-style track and field competition open to civilians and veterans. Clayton Frech, an alumnus whose 10-year-old son will compete, partnered with the university's adaptive recreation program to found the first Angel City Games.

Social and civic entrepreneur Shawn Landres is serving as Civil Society Fellow in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs through the fall 2015 quarter.

A panel of Angelenos who study and work to improve the city honed in on how best to manage the forces that are rapidly transforming neighborhoods like Highland Park and Lincoln Heights. Participating was UCLA architecture and urban design professor Dana Cuff.

Charles Gold was rescued by Los Angeles Fire Department personnel and treated by staff at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center when he collapsed during March’s race.

Dozens of UCLA staff members celebrated their graduation on June 5 from UCLA's Project SPELL, where they learned English and changed their lives.

From promoting literacy to studying the role of religion in rehabilitation, the Astin Civic Engagement Scholars program encourages students and faculty to leverage teaching and research in the name of service to the public.

The three-year grant will fund an intensive treatment program for service members suffering from mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The jazz legend mentored musicians, and in this spirit the virtuoso grad students study with modern masters like Herbie Hancock and Kenny Burrell, and in turn share their expertise with thousands of students in local schools.

Students, student veterans, faculty, staff and community members came together today to collect 90,000 U.S. flags that were placed at gravesites at Los Angeles National Cemetery on Memorial Day in honor of American military men and women.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes about how teacher evaluations that include hours of observation and student feedback, among other criteria, foster trust between educators and those grading them.

Dr. Atilla Uner, a UCLA clinical professor of emergency medicine, served on a U.S. search and rescue team that helped find survivors of the Nepal earthquake.

As part of UC Day in DC, a delegation from UCLA, including eight students, urged members of Congress to keep college accessible and affordable.

For 15 years the UCLA education research center has conducted workshops to help thousands of Los Angeles high school students prepare for their Advanced Placement exams.

From remote scientific research stations to an urban art gallery and a downtown health clinic, UCLA’s influence is felt all over. How many do you know?