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UCLA students are going dark for Earth Hour on March 28, by turning off the lights free for an hour to join the international event raising awareness about climate change and energy usage.

Faculty across campus will vote on a proposal that would require all undergraduate students in the UCLA College to complete a course focused on diversity.

More than 92,000 UCLA applicants found out last night if they were admitted. Here are some of their emotional celebrations on social media.

The donor says he hopes the gift, which will benefit students, faculty and the community, will honor his family’s legacy of giving — one that started with his late grandmother.

Biochemistry student Jeffrey Vinokur is the Dancing Scientist, whose zany science experiments have been featured on national TV shows, on YouTube and in school auditoriums.

Just a few weeks ago, third-year M.F.A. student Emma Kragen was concentrating on advancing her thesis project at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Now the emerging cinematographer is assembling waterproof snow gear.

After nearly a month of turning off the lights, doing laundry with cold water and taking the stairs instead of the elevator, UCLA students are currently a close second in a competition among residence halls to see which UC campus can save the most energy.

Siva Rajananda, a second-year student from Malaysia, will compete in a campus race this weekend.

Astronaut and three-time UCLA alumna Anna Lee Fisher addressed a roomful of students Monday at a UCLA Careers in Chemistry and Biochemistry to talk about her career and the lessons she learned while she attended UCLA.

Bryan Kirschen has become a tireless advocate for the endangered language that is often described as the Spanish equivalent of Yiddish.

Dental students taking the “Medical Improv” class learn techniques to be more relaxed and confident when they deal with patients.

UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Isaac Yang will receive the prestigious National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Medical Student Association.

Only 36 percent of commuters drive alone, according to UCLA’s annual State of the Commute report.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA offers many of the nation’s top residency training programs in the western United States, according to a new report.

With little access to arts education in their schools, roughly 4,400 local children have benefited from the expertise of students and graduates who teach as part of the UCLA's Visual and Performing Arts Education program.

UCLA’s Graduate Division and Graduate Student Association are teaming up to create UCLA’s first Grad Slam, a combination training ground and competition to determine who best can deliver an engaging, three-minute research presentation that anyone can comprehend.

Health insurance provider Anthem Inc. is offering identity repair assistance and credit monitoring services, in response to the recent data breach, to current and former members enrolled in 2004 or later.

Sixteen UCLA students have received fellowships for projects that focus on food, ranging from making documentaries to constructing new campus gardens.

The University of California will require incoming students to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.

UCLA mascot Joe Bruin was invited to take part in a friendly dance-off with USC's Tommy Trojan on last night's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC. We know who won.

Anthem, Inc. disclosed on Feb. 4 that it was the target of a very sophisticated cyber attack that potentially compromised information about UC students, retirees, employees and their dependents.

UCLA is making available free software to the campus community that downloads in seconds and increases the chance that campus police or other local law enforcement agencies will be able to reunite owners with stolen electronic devices.

A group of nursing students and faculty members on an educational mission were enthusiastically welcomed in Havana following news of closer relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

A team from the 330-member club, which helps encourage the professional exploration of wine and the wine industry, has entered a prestigious international wine event in New York City.

The gift will support students, professors and researchers working with the rare primary-source materials in UCLA Library Special Collections.