ucla magazine

Universities are training doctors with a new emphasis on human beings. For many, the benchmark is a revolutionary program created at UCLA.

In his new book, the basketball player chronicles the remarkable Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s and ’30s.

The famous baseball player is known as “the greatest UCLA athlete of all time.”

Is virtual reality the next frontier for universities? Some of the most famous names in education — including UCLA — are teaching in cyberspace.

Cruise ships and crushing poverty. Ancient ruins and modern menace. Past and present collide on a UCLA Alumni Association journey to North Africa.

From guys in funny hats to sports lovers who dress up in costume for women’s volleyball games, UCLA inspires its own kind of fanatics.

Like Los Angeles itself, the university is a beacon for those who dream of a better life for themselves and for their families.

Weekend warriors and weekday lunch lifters have a pretty decent chance of getting injured. Here are three keys to keeping your physical health on track.

Stem cell research. The iPod. Forensic DNA. Search engines. The faculties of UCLA and UC Berkeley choose 25 brilliant California ideas that changed our world.

On almost every mission, UCLA scientists are working together and with colleagues around the world to unlock the secrets of the universe.

UCLA visual culture scholars Allen and Polly Roberts have spent two lifetimes studying and celebrating one of the most fascinating places on Earth.

How the Daily Bruin became a training ground for leadership and one of the best-known college newspapers in America.

Between intramural sports and intercollegiate athletics, club sports offer UCLA students a chance to compete on a high-level playing field.

John Wooden and Valorie Kondos Field — two extraordinary UCLA coaches — discuss life, love, faith and, of course, coaching.

With a bag of dimes and an idea, the author descended to the basement of Powell Library to write one of the most important science fiction stories of the age.

Donald Cram’s creativity and brilliance revolutionized chemistry, opening the doors to new worlds of discovery.

You wouldn’t recognize him up on the big screen, but Terry Notary was the man behind The Apes in the summer’s must-see flick.

Jeannie Oakes is on a crusade to ensure that every child has a fair shot at a first-class education.

Without the patient-volunteers who donate their bodies as living laboratories, the advances in our understanding and treatment of AIDS wouldn’t be possible.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library isn’t just a resource for scholars and academics. People with a love of learning have “a mental paradise” in its walls.

The Hope Street Family Center gives children of Los Angeles’ working poor a chance to reach their full potential.

Law Professor Gary Blasi and a group of students spent five months investigating California’s public schools, uncovering Dickensian conditions of squalor and neglect.

UCLA’s researchers are making the most of modern tools and techniques to unlock the secrets of our shared pasts and cultures.

UCLA scientists were the first to identify AIDS in 1981. Will they now become the first to develop a vaccine against the disease?

Judith Baca’s large-scale murals have illuminated the history and stories of Los Angeles’ diverse communities. Today, her students are learning to carry on the tradition.