UCLA Magazine

In the spring of 1952, Carol Burnett was an unassuming student actress at UCLA.

Led by Woody Strode, Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington — dubbed the “Gold Dust Trio” — the Bruins finished the 1939 season ranked No. 7 in the nation.

At UCLA, there is no shortage of fascinating opinions on how art and science combine in a world transformed by technology.

At UCLA Extension, students are or soon will be signing up for courses and programs on a flock of new career opportunities.

Bruin experts share travel tips, tales of life on the road and favorite destinations.

Two Bruins — Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez — are teaming up to tackle a mountain of challenges.

Yule Caise M.F.A. ’07 has been a child actor, a film screenwriter, an acting coach for Snoop Dogg, an instructor at UCLA and a NAACP/NBC fellow.

U.S. society is dramatically polarized on the subject of sexuality. For many Americans stuck in the middle, that just doesn’t feel good.

UCLA faculty and alumni experts have some suggestions for healing our ailing economy — but their cures are neither gentle nor expected.

The co-directors of UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles have been in the vanguard of academic inquiry into the America’s inequities.

The sustainability pipeline is bulging with new initiatives, from UCLA’s Climate Action Plan to weekly, student-run delivery of locally farmed produce.

UCLA embarks on a landmark gang intervention study of Homeboy Industries.

Robert Rosen’s passion for preserving original film work has become a legacy of our times.

This Nobel Peace Prize winner brought his message of hope to UCLA.

Men’s Basketball Head Coach Ben Howland has done it again. His 2008 freshman players includes elite guards, an explosive power forward and a standout center.

One of the places where music plays the loudest is UCLA, where Bruins — on campus and after graduation — made an indelible mark on rock history.

How do high-achieving students like James Franco reach their intellectual goals? Ask the UCLA counseling office.

Nanotechnology — the science of microscopic machines that promise miracles in almost every area of society — is the Next Big Thing. And UCLA is a major player.

In 1925, five student leaders launched the Southern Branch of the California Alumni Association. Today, that group has become a 91,000-member organization.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — ADHD — gets a lot of bad press. But it’s no illusion, and it isn’t a smokescreen for bad parenting.

UCLA bid farewell to the 53-year-old Center for the Health Sciences and began life anew in the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

It’s been six years since the Bruins won their last NCAA title. And this season, UCLA will face five of the last seven NCAA men’s soccer champions.

All over the world, people are reexamining what the word “freedom” means to them — and whether democracy is the best way to deliver it.

Bruin undergrads from UCLA’s Student Initiated Access Center are working with high school students to get ready for higher education.

“Food is like a pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain,” a UCLA scientist notes. The right food can improve memory or fight depression, schizophrenia or dementia.