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A class created by adjunct professor David Leaf will tell the band’s story through film, video and interviews with music industry executives.

The program is both an upper-level undergraduate course and public lecture series that brings together 40 leading minds to discuss 10 timely and fundamental questions.

New major is an extension of the jazz studies concentration, established in 1996 by jazz icon Kenny Burrell.

In this Q&A, director of the UCLA Game Lab Eddo Stern discusses the lab’s origins and what projects they’re sending to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Tribal Leadership and Community Development Certificate began with 23 students and now has more than 200 enrollees.

Students at the National McNair Scholars Conference had the opportunity to present research, learn about the application processes and network with professors.

To earn the certificate, students must complete five courses in environmental law and produce a supervised research paper.

In her esteemed career, Barbara Drucker has left an indelible mark not just on UCLA and the art world, but in Los Angeles schools where she reshaped arts education.

The Prison Education Program helps incarcerated students change their lives through education, and informs UCLA students about how prisons affect communities.

Since its inception in 2015, the program has provided 33 UCLA students with funding to complete research, projects or internships that focus on food issues.

The proposed minor would create new opportunities to engage students across all majors on campus, and it would extend the campus’s existing strength in Iranian studies.

Visit was a part of the UCLA Labor Center’s Parent Worker Project, which trains parents to be advocates for their children’s education.

Creation of the major, which will be offered beginning in Fall 2018, has been in the works for several years, in response to student demand.

Eugene & Maxine Rosenfeld Hall will be one of the few facilities in the nation to unite mock clinical experiences, surgical and procedural simulation, and interprofessional emergency and hospital team training.

The magazine has listed six UCLA professional schools and graduate programs among the top five in the country, and another seven are listed in the top 10.

The focus of the program, which is designed for working professionals, is to translate research into advanced clinical practice.

UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is holding a two-day conference this weekend looking back at a critical moment in the Civil Rights Era.

“It’s critical to educate the next generation of scientists to understand how and why our climate is changing, and what measures must be taken to adapt,” said professor Alex Hall.

UCLA students helping teach former gang members how to resolve their conflicts peacefully find themselves transformed by the experience.

UCLA professor of musicology David MacFadyen is a champion of blockchain and how it could influence the future study and scholarship in arts and literature.

The five-year $2.7 million grant from the CDC will help UCLA launch a program for undergraduates that provides training, mentors and hands-on experience.

Chemistry professor has for years been praised by his students. The award, given every two years, was announced by Baylor University.

From new courses and academic programs to fitness classes, bike share and community gardens, the 5-year-old program has reshaped campus.

Each is among 14 scientists nationally to be named by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as HHMI professors. UCLA is tied for second in the number of 2017 recipients.

Every year students say the highlight of history professor Teo Ruiz’s class is the all-day bus and walking tour of the city that’s so close, yet so far.