UCLA Magazine

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

Kenneth Macgowan’s tenure at UCLA was his fourth career.

The Thirty Meter Telescope at the peak of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano will allow us to see further and deeper into the universe than ever before.

Metro terminals across the city offer some of the best viewing of public art, much of it created by Bruins.

This past May, the women’s tennis team won its second and UCLA’s 111th NCAA national championship in a nail-biting, 4-3 slugfest.

Savvy business innovators are leveraging technology to transform the marketplace.

Alex Caputo-Pearl M.A. ’97 is the new president of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the second-largest teachers union local in the nation.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary effort aims to make UCLA the healthiest campus anywhere.

David Gere saw that artists could redirect how people think. That spawned “Make Art/Stop AIDS,” which connects artists intervening in the AIDS epidemic.

“Medal of Honor” and “Call of Duty” animation director Sunil Thankamushy M.F.A. ’01 turned to nature as a gaming subject to nurture creativity.

How many of these vanished campus landmarks do you remember?

Bruin Patrick Meighan wrote the episode where they did.

The Centennial Campaign for UCLA will create a higher education model for a new century.

Endowed chairs give top scholars the resources to more fully pursue their fields of study.

The Ronald A. Katz Center for Collaborative Military Medicine at UCLA is the first university-based military medicine center on the West Coast.

In 1994, UCLA fundraisers couldn’t understand why more women didn’t give to the university. Turns out, all they had to do was ask.

The Herb Alpert School of Music’s global perspective and industry savvy have placed it solidly among the nation’s top music programs.

Jonathan Fielding is an acclaimed UCLA professor and the top public health official for the County of Los Angeles.

From “Love & Basketball” to “The Secret Life of Bees,” director Gina Prince-Bythewood ’91 specializes in personal stories she’s passionate to share.

From the beginning, the people of Los Angeles have lent their support to UCLA and rallied to its needs.

Art and science may seem like polar opposites, but a closer look reveals an ancient, symbiotic relationship between the two.

The UCLA women’s soccer team is one of the top teams in the country. But the Bruins had never won a national championship — until now.

Enjoy this look at L.A. with insiders, exploring three lesser-known gems in the city.

Three-dimensional printing is an increasingly important tool for industry and research, and the terminology as well as the technology is creeping into the consumer market.

Professor Neil Garg is finding new ways to reach the next generation of scientists.