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

The 24th annual UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Film Festival, running Friday, June 5 through Wednesday, June 10, will honor Hollywood luminaries during a week of free screenings, panels and awards presentations.

Check out the 37th Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday, May 19 in the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center.

Bring your whole family to celebrate Indian arts and culture at the UCLA Fowler Museum's 'Arts of India Festival,' from 12:30-4 p.m. on Sunday, May 17.

UCLA volunteers can often be found helping out around the city on the weekends in UCLA’s One Bus, One Cause events.

Nearly 300 students in the 7th-9th grades in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with teachers and other adults, have taken ‘Wallace Walks’ through UCLA’s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden this year.

In a Q&A, M.V. Lee Badgett, UCLA Williams Distinguished Scholar, says that showing people data helps bring discrimination to light and counters stereotypes.

Meet the journalist and cartoonist creators of the graphic novella, 'Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data,' on Tuesday, May 19 at UCLA.

U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation Anthony Foxx speaks at 5 p.m. on May 14 at L.A.'s Union Station for the UCLA Luskin School and L.A. Metro.

UCLA’s annual bike week is in full swing, offering regular cyclists and the bike-curious three “pit stops” from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

G. Jennifer Wilson, assistant vice provost for honors programs, is being recognized with the G. Jennifer Wilson Fund for Teaching Excellence and Innovation in the Honors Curriculum.

Steve Shaevel, director of academic personnel at the UCLA School of Dentistry, and his wife, Gail, have been tapped to serve on an advisory board for a National Institutes of Health Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant.

UCLA’s Weyburn Terrace, a residential community for 1,800 graduate students, has been recognized by the Congress for the New Urbanism as one of the year’s most outstanding examples of architectural, landscape, urban and regional design.

The Ralph J. Bunche Center will host a conversation with John Densmore, writer, actor and drummer for the iconic rock group, The Doors, from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13 at the Faculty Center Hacienda Room.

Enjoy the musical “Hello, Dolly!” at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 10 — the latest in the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Family Flicks series, showing at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents a free two-part concert of Anatolian and classical Persian music at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 7.

UCLA Recreation invites staff and faculty to its annual I Heart Walking event, noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, starting at the bottom of Janss Steps.

University of California Human Resources is launching its annual medical plan satisfaction survey on Monday, May 4.

To express their gratitude for their help, Jim Weingarten and his family decided to call in a shaved-ice truck to give staffers from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center a cool treat Wednesday.

Shannon O’Kelley has been named the interim vice president of UCLA Health for Hospital Systems. He is also the Chief Operating Officer for the UCLA Hospital System.

Join UCLA and Zócalo Public Square on May 4 for a panel discussion on the causes of and responses to genocide.

The 'Transforming Hollywood 6: Alternative Realities, World Building and Immersive Entertainment conference' takes place at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television on May 8.

UCLA has been recognized in three categories of the 2015 Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards Competition from the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.

Jody Herman, UCLA Williams Institute Scholar of Public Policy, received the Certificate of Recognition for her work at the 2015 National Transgender Health Summit.

Andrew Flores was honored for this work examining the effect that exposure to LGB people has on individual attitudes about recognizing relationship rights for same-sex couples.