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For over 15 years, the Senior Fellows Leadership Program has been helping to prepare UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs students for careers as change agents in the world by pairing them with leaders in their fields as mentors.

Digital media artist Refik Anadol and UCLA design students will produce an explosion of images aligned with the gestures and body language of LA Philharmonic conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

More than 4,000 parents of UCLA undergraduates — many of them the newest Bruins on campus — spent a fun-filled weekend with their children, experiencing the best of UCLA.

Tigon Abalos, a dental student at UCLA, a Army veteran and former refugee from Vietnam, will draw on her deep appreciation for her service experience when she speaks at UCLA’s annual Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 10.

Actor Henry Winkler, who played “The Fonz” on the long-running sitcom “Happy Days,” recently talked with UCLA students about the process he goes through in co-authoring the popular “Hank Zipzer” series of children’s books.

Joshua Bloom, a UCLA Ph.D. candidate in sociology, received an American Book Award on Oct. 26 for a history of the Black Panthers. He shares the prize with co-author Waldo Martin, a UC Berkeley historian.

Nearly 1,100 students from Washington Preparatory High School, located in southeast Los Angeles County, heard senior leaders from UCLA deliver a simple but inspiring message: A UC education is within your reach.

UCLA Parents’ Weekend returns to campus for the 15th year, bringing more than 4,000 together to experience the best of what UCLA has to offer.

A new report on college costs and accessibility shows that the University of California’s financial aid program has shielded low-income students and their families from tuition increases caused by substantial declines in state funding for higher education.

uHearingTest, which lets people self-administer hearing tests, won an award in the Code for the Mission contest, which aimed to translate UCLA researchers’ expertise into public benefit.

Undocumented UC students who qualify for in-state tuition but are ineligible for federal assistance soon will be able to borrow up to $4,000 a year to make up the shortfall, thanks to a new law supported by the University of California and state legislators.

SACNAS at UCLA is trying to bring more Latinos and Native Americans into science and engineering, a crucial step to help the U.S. keep pace with the rest of the technological world.

The UCLA Labor Center produces the nation's only storytelling radio show that focuses on workers and the issues they face. Students and community members work on Re:Work Radio and learn storytelling skills and multimedia production.

The proposal calls for College undergraduates to complete a course that substantially addresses racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, sexual orientation, religious or other types of diversity.

Elijah Ozuna is one of 13 new Bruins who were admitted after completing UCLA's highly successful Vice Provost Initiative for Pre-College Scholars program. To date, 97 percent of the program’s 250 core participants have enrolled in four-year colleges.

The Chancellor updates the campus community about the recommendations made by UC President Janet Napolitano’s task force to prevent sexual assault and sexual misconduct.

As part of its ongoing effort to better serve readers in the digital age, UCLA Magazine has launched its first iPad app.

“I look forward to an exhilarating and productive,” Block writes in his message to the UCLA campus community.

A UCLA undergraduate sociology student and grandmother of seven, Parvin Arman, 70, faced extraordinary obstacles in trying to attain an education in her native Iran.

Chancellor Gene Block formally welcomed new freshmen and transfer students to UCLA Sunday at the Los Angeles Tennis Center stadium as the campus prepares to kick off the 2014-15 academic year.

Volunteers worked at more than 40 schools, veterans centers, public parks, senior centers, community centers and homeless service providers.

Campus returned to life as thousands of students began moving into the residence halls. Those living in the newly renovated Hitch Residential Suites were greeted with a host of new amenities.

For UCLA's sixth annual Volunteer Day on Sept. 29, 7,300 Bruins will blanket Los Angeles County helping out at schools, veterans' sites, senior centers, shelters, parks and more, before classes even begin.

This year Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,” is being read by thousands of incoming freshman and transfer students, faculty, staff and alumni as part of the six-year-old UCLA Common Book program.

Twins Youstina and Marina Salama immigrated from Egypt at the age of 9 without knowing a word of English. They are now freshmen at UCLA who have their sights set on pursuing careers in medicine.