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The new members, all UCLA alumni and long-time supporters, will serve two-year terms.

Kareiva will conduct research into urban conservation, improving environmental communications and exploring the role of consumer choices in pushing businesses to go green.

The total smashes the previous high set in 2013–14 and accelerates the momentum of the Centennial Campaign for UCLA.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block sent this communication to the campus community today.

Identity protection services will be offered free of charge to potentially impacted individuals.

UCLA admits 16,027 high school seniors remarkable for their achievements both inside and outside the classroom.

Combs, also known as Diddy, was arrested at UCLA’s Acosta Athletic Training Complex on assault charges. He was booked into the sheriff's inmate reception center.

Cheers and tears filled UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion on Friday as seniors in the class of 2015 celebrated their graduation. Inventor Nathan Myhrvold delivered the keynote address at two ceremonies.

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.

Jennifer Mnookin has served as vice dean for faculty and research and as vice dean for external appointments and intellectual life, and she is founding faculty director of the school’s Program on Understanding, Science and Evidence.

For the 2015–16 academic year, 20 Big Bang Theory scholars will be selected to receive financial assistance. Each year in perpetuity, five additional scholars will be chosen.

In a message to the UCLA campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. will be leaving UCLA and praised him for his leadership in advancing UCLA’s civic engagement.

The gift will support priorities such as student financial aid and fellowships, faculty and research funding, and program innovations, and provide seed funding for a new building with technology-enhanced classrooms.

Uber executive Rachel Whetstone, Target CEO Brian Cornell and U.S. Rep. Lois Capps are among the prominent figures who will speak at UCLA’s 2015 graduation ceremonies, which begin May 15.

UCLA professors Donald and Sherie Morrison provided the gift to establish the Morrison Family Center for Marketing Studies and Data Analytics.

Four UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 175 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Kathleen Salvaty, an experienced litigator and civil rights advocate, has been hired as UCLA’s Title IX officer.

The endowed chair commemorates Luskin’s longstanding relationship with his friend and attorney, Robert Henigson.

Kang spoke with UCLA Newsroom’s Eric Greene about his background and his goals for the new position.

Jerry Kang, a faculty member since 1995, has drawn praise from fellow professors for his commitment to fairness and his leadership skills.

Faculty across campus will vote on a proposal that would require all undergraduate students in the UCLA College to complete a course focused on diversity.

The award will support the Teaching Schools Initiative, which has been based at the UCLA Community School and will be expanding to other sites.

UCLA leaders and prominent alumni gathered March 19 to celebrate the new jewel of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Engineering VI.

The center, to be led by Michael Fanselow, will focus on brain health and developing novel methods to get the unhealthy brain back to the healthy state.

The donor says he hopes the gift, which will benefit students, faculty and the community, will honor his family’s legacy of giving — one that started with his late grandmother.