Quick Takes

In June, UCLA’s softball team walked off with the program’s 13th Women’s College World Series title.

Erkki Huhtamo finds a light worth keeping alive in the preservation of magic lanterns.

Natalie Nakase took her basketball coaching experience to the next level: the NBA level.

College enrollment resources for students in low-income backgrounds have been limited in the past, but that’s starting to change.

UCLA students and faculty are trying to break through the limitations of juvenile delinquency through education.

Valorie Kondos Field’s success in gymnastics coaching is rooted in her past endeavors — and now made public in her new book.

Pulitzer Prize–winning restaurant critic and food writer Jonathan Gold ’82 died on July 21, 2018.

Lee Goldberg had a thrilling path into the world of mystery literature.

Be prepared to have everything you know about Satan turned upside down — by the Bible.

With an expansion in the works, the Hammer Museum continues to evolve with the burgeoning L.A. art scene.

The path to the national championship for UCLA Gymnastics was full of balancing high stakes.

Elena Manferdini’s architecture practice is more than just walls and windows.

Director Ava DuVernay saw herself in the heroine of “A Wrinkle in Time.”

Lauren McCarthy’s work is prompted by her own introversion.

UCLA’s men’s water polo team made a splash when they won an NCAA championship last December.

CAP UCLA brings new events and opportunities to downtown L.A.

With the help of a UCLA space physicist professor, we are going closer to the sun than ever before.

Angel Blue is reaching new heights in the world of opera, but the singer never forgets her roots.

Leslie Rith-Najarian’s anti-stress project is a home run in many ways.

David Leaf gives students an inside glimpse into the lives of songwriters.

Getting across the UCLA campus just got a whole lot smoother, thanks to a new bike-share program.

At UCLA, teaching isn’t confined to classrooms — even the buildings offer a lesson or two.

With NASA, Professor Christopher Russell is exploring what the science of the future can tell us about the past.

Barbie’s connections to UCLA go way back.

From UCLA’s Clark Library, an Oscar Wilde portrait traveled to London and is on display in the Tate Britain’s Queer British Art 1861–1967 exhibition.