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To celebrate the hard-won triumphs of student parents and their families, a special commencement ceremony and after-party, complete with face-painting, has become a campus tradition.

Graduating seniors Sylvia Duzaryan and Andrew Ho will address the Class of 2014 during commencement ceremonies for the UCLA College on June 13.

With the help of an extended family of friends, classmates and mentors, undocumented immigrant Seth Ronquillo is about to graduate from UCLA.

Taylor Bazley credits UCLA with providing a place for his political activism to grow.

Deanna Jordan, a first-generation college student and mother of three, has been motivated by her children to embark on a long struggle to get a college education and give back to her Compton community.

With finals week approaching, students in Powell Library received a visit from therapy dogs that usually are found in UCLA hospitals. As part of the stress-busting activities to ease the tension of finals, Company 2014, a student performance group, sang its comedic salute to cramming at Powell Library.

After the killings of six UC Santa Barbara students in Isla Vista, students at UCLA used social media to organize a Monday night memorial vigil outside Royce Hall.

Anne McKnight, a visiting assistant professor at UCLA, teaches a course on urban agriculture in Los Angeles that emphasizes that growing one’s own food is more important than ever.

UCLA's Career Center, Graduate Division and collaborators campuswide have ramped up services to ready graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for successful, satisfying careers in and out of academia.

Adrien Hamedi-Sangsari has pushed for more government funding for research, pro bono dental care and student loan relief.

After UCLA's traditional Spring Sing on Friday night, students gathered outside Royce Hall to be amazed by a show projected on the historic building's face.

Taylor Bazley, a UCLA senior, grew up in a poor neighborhood in San Diego. So when he was admitted to UCLA, Bazley knew it would change his life.

Angela Sanchez wasn’t sure if she could finish high school seven years ago when she and her father were homeless. Today, the graduate student is positioning herself for a successful career in higher education administration.

A scholarship liberated Mary Kavonian from the need to work or worry about finances. So she sought out opportunities to do community outreach that eventually led her to a career choice.

Growing up in South Los Angeles, Jeremy Edwards was frequently on the move with his hard-working single mom. In June, he will become the first in his immediate family to earn a bachelor’s degree.

The 7000 in Solidarity Campaign was one of two student groups selected to receive the University of California President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership.

Dental student Ryan Brennan made it possible for 200-plus patients to get dental care. Urban planning student Connor Johnson has a similar passion to help people in poverty.

Brian Lehigh, Tara Noorani and Michael Oshiro were recognized for projects serving impoverished veterans, the homeless and incarcerated youth.

They went to Capitol Hill when their project on epilepsy was selected to represent the best of undergraduate research in California.

Approximately 600 students will be presenting their research in the humanities and the social, life and physical sciences.

President Obama met for a few minutes at LAX with students in a UCLA seminar taught by actor and former White House aide Kal Penn. The class: "Hope, Change, and Fist Bumps: Young Americans and The Obama Presidency."

Eleven UCLA students received awards as part of the sixth annual UCLA Library Awards Day.

UCLA student Noah Lizerbram organizes benefit concerts like this week's 'Kickback for a Cause' to help bring music classes and instruments to poor communities.

Arienna Grody will become a public defender in Alabama after winning the first UCLA Gideon’s Promise Fellowship.

The UCLA Blum Center's Second Annual Spring Conference on May 6-7 will feature the latest research on health and poverty in Latin America and highlight solutions.