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For 25 years, David Ravetch, a senior lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, has been the charismatic warm-up act kicking off three intense days of freshman orientation.

In fitness-crazed Southern California, two UCLA Anderson School of Management classmates developed a business using DXA scanners that give people a comprehensive analysis identifying both the amount and location of fat and lean tissue in their bodies.

A book authored by a team of 20 students in a UCLA labor studies minor class tells the stories of immigrant families whose lives were disrupted by deportation. “Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation” was recently published by the UCLA Labor Center.

The sports network told the story of how Andrew Goldstein’s courageous story of coming out as gay to his college lacrosse teammates many years ago led to a friendship with a boy who contemplated suicide after coming out.

Refik Anadol’s recent collaboration with LA Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen ''Visions of America:Amerique Audio/Visual Performance'' has been selected by Prix Ars Electronica jury to be screened during Ars Electronica Animation Festival in Linz, Austria. 

UCLA Anderson School of Management alumnus Michael Landa developed an idea for a pet-sitting business into a multimillion-dollar firm -- with thanks to a Labrador named Max II.

President Linda D. Rose of Los Angeles Southwest College knows the struggles of older, returning students.

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

The inaugural UCLA Global Forums held recently in Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo offered alumni, parents and students living in East Asia a chance to hear from campus leaders and discuss issues of importance to them.

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.

Shaina Zaidi, a former UCLA Women’s Basketball student-athlete, has been named director of the Bruin Varsity Club by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.

More than 50 people came together today to share deeply felt anger, compassion, fear and frustration as well as hope for healing in response to last week’s tragic shooting in South Carolina.

UCLA Anderson alumnus Dan Russ teamed up with his best friend to create Click2Speak, one of the most successful “social good” startups coming out of Israel.

Malcom was awarded UCLA’s highest honor for her work championing public science literacy and increased access and opportunities for girls, women and underrepresented minorities.

The son of migrant farm workers and recently retired creative writing professor is the first Latino to be chosen as nation’s poet laureate.

Featuring speeches by the executive vice president of Magic Johnson Enterprises, an ESPN host and three women who founded companies, the event held on campus spotlighted the importance of women as difference makers.

UCLA alumna Esmeralda Garcia, who began high school reading at a fifth-grade level, returned to her high school to address students at a rally attended by UC President Janet Napolitano.

Madeleine Holly-Rosing has combined her love of history and science fiction to create the award-winning comic “Boston Metaphysical Society.”

UCLA will honor seven outstanding alumni, Waxman, Ortega, Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, Kathleen Dracup, Ann Wang, Jessica Willison and Albert Aubin, at ceremonies on May 16.

Abdul-Jabbar is home continuing his recovery after being examined today for discomfort following April 16 heart bypass surgery.

On Tuesday, April 28, the campus community, together with 2,000 K-12 students, will gather for events to commemorate the day 50 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited UCLA and addressed nearly 5,000.

Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000 after retiring from his position as Microsoft’s chief strategist and chief technology officer. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UCLA in 1979.

The new Career Closet provides UCLA students with gently used business attire that they can keep and wear to interviews for work or interviews for a job, internship, graduate school or professional networking events.

The Los Angeles Times Book Club comes to UCLA on Sunday, April 26, for a discussion about “The Boys of Summer,” a book by Roger Kahn about the reign of Jackie Robinson and other members of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.

How the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program changed my life (and maybe yours, too).