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Erika Green Swafford, a writer on one of the hottest new crime shows, found her UCLA degree helped her land a position on the creative side of the entertainment industry.

UCLA alumnus Robert Farrell writes about how desegregating a Houston coffee shop helped change America — and his life.

Astronaut and three-time UCLA alumna Anna Lee Fisher addressed a roomful of students Monday at a UCLA Careers in Chemistry and Biochemistry to talk about her career and the lessons she learned while she attended UCLA.

More than 800 people gathered in Royce Hall to applaud the courage of 16 civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — who challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.

UCLA will honor alumni who joined a mass protest in 1961 and became Freedom Riders to protest segregation encountered by African Americans when they traveled between states on buses, trains and used public facilities.

Carissa Phelps, who received her M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School and J.D. from UCLA School of Law, was once a victim of human trafficking and is now an author and advocate for those forced into the sex trades.

Padmanabhan’s support of the lab, which will be housed in the still-under-construction Engineering VI building, will further cement UCLA as a premiere research institution.

These recent grads won a $400,000 validation of their idea.

If 2,200 Bruins donated to any of UCLA’s funds prior to the UCLA-USC football game Nov. 22, alumni Karren Ganstwig and Howard Welinsky pledged to give an additional $100,000 to UCLA.

For 20 years master’s students in the social welfare program have learned firsthand about homelessness by going to downtown Los Angeles. Some never left.

The institute will provide new knowledge and technology to assess and manage risks in order to save lives, protect the environment and protect property from large-scale threats.

As part of its ongoing effort to better serve readers in the digital age, UCLA Magazine has launched its first iPad app.

This year Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,” is being read by thousands of incoming freshman and transfer students, faculty, staff and alumni as part of the six-year-old UCLA Common Book program.

The University of California Board of Regents today approved President Janet Napolitano’s selection of Howard Gillman as the sixth chancellor of UC Irvine. Gillman is a three-time graduate of UCLA.

A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

The Student Leadership Academy places recent university graduates with different social justice organizations and labor unions in Southern California. The program is sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Labor Center.

A documentary about the 2011 UCLA quidditch team's bid for the sport's world cup started as a five-minute film class project. "Mudbloods” will open in select theaters this fall.

Dr. Gary Parker was awarded the UCLA Medal for his humanitarianism — spending his career aboard a hospital ship providing free oral and reconstructive surgery to needy people in Africa.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Uber founder Travis Kalanick and online fashionista Natalie Massenet joined Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton and Pope Francis on the magazine’s 2014 list of 'The 100 most influential people in the world.'

Peter Taylor, former UC chief financial officer, will present 'UC’s Financial Challenges and the Systemwide Response' as part of UCLA’s Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center’s series of 45th Anniversary Celebration lectures.

Former UCLA track and cross country star Meb Keflezighi, who won the 2014 Boston Marathon, was honored today the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

A year after the Boston bombings, UCLA's most accomplished distance runner wins with a time of 2:08:37.

The ’03 grad performed at this year’s Grammys, where she was a double nominee. She’s also writing a book and a musical.

The man who edits and publishes Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers isn’t just a scholar of the civil rights movement. Clayborne Carson lived it.

UC Berkeley biologist Randy Schekman, who graduated from the UCLA College of Letters and Science in 1971, received the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.