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In the 47 years since Johnson helped found the games, the most important change has been in attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.

The inaugural UCLA Global Forums held recently in Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo offered alumni, parents and students living in East Asia a chance to hear from campus leaders and discuss issues of importance to them.

Obstacles, ranging from skyrocketing housing costs and insufficient state and federal funding to social stigma, are sending greater numbers of Americans onto the streets, said a UCLA-Zocalo panel of experts on homelessness.

More than 50 people came together today to share deeply felt anger, compassion, fear and frustration as well as hope for healing in response to last week’s tragic shooting in South Carolina.

UCLA Anderson alumnus Dan Russ teamed up with his best friend to create Click2Speak, one of the most successful “social good” startups coming out of Israel.

Malcom was awarded UCLA’s highest honor for her work championing public science literacy and increased access and opportunities for girls, women and underrepresented minorities.

The son of migrant farm workers and recently retired creative writing professor is the first Latino to be chosen as nation’s poet laureate.

Featuring speeches by the executive vice president of Magic Johnson Enterprises, an ESPN host and three women who founded companies, the event held on campus spotlighted the importance of women as difference makers.

UCLA alumna Esmeralda Garcia, who began high school reading at a fifth-grade level, returned to her high school to address students at a rally attended by UC President Janet Napolitano.

Madeleine Holly-Rosing has combined her love of history and science fiction to create the award-winning comic “Boston Metaphysical Society.”

UCLA will honor seven outstanding alumni, Waxman, Ortega, Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, Kathleen Dracup, Ann Wang, Jessica Willison and Albert Aubin, at ceremonies on May 16.

Abdul-Jabbar is home continuing his recovery after being examined today for discomfort following April 16 heart bypass surgery.

On Tuesday, April 28, the campus community, together with 2,000 K-12 students, will gather for events to commemorate the day 50 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited UCLA and addressed nearly 5,000.

Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000 after retiring from his position as Microsoft’s chief strategist and chief technology officer. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UCLA in 1979.

The new Career Closet provides UCLA students with gently used business attire that they can keep and wear to interviews for work or interviews for a job, internship, graduate school or professional networking events.

Erika Green Swafford, a writer on one of the hottest new crime shows, found her UCLA degree helped her land a position on the creative side of the entertainment industry.

UCLA alumnus Robert Farrell writes about how desegregating a Houston coffee shop helped change America — and his life.

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.

More than 800 people gathered in Royce Hall to applaud the courage of 16 civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — who challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.

UCLA will honor alumni who joined a mass protest in 1961 and became Freedom Riders to protest segregation encountered by African Americans when they traveled between states on buses, trains and used public facilities.

Carissa Phelps, who received her M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School and J.D. from UCLA School of Law, was once a victim of human trafficking and is now an author and advocate for those forced into the sex trades.

Padmanabhan’s support of the lab, which will be housed in the still-under-construction Engineering VI building, will further cement UCLA as a premiere research institution.

If 2,200 Bruins donated to any of UCLA’s funds prior to the UCLA-USC football game Nov. 22, alumni Karren Ganstwig and Howard Welinsky pledged to give an additional $100,000 to UCLA.

For 20 years master’s students in the social welfare program have learned firsthand about homelessness by going to downtown Los Angeles. Some never left.

The institute will provide new knowledge and technology to assess and manage risks in order to save lives, protect the environment and protect property from large-scale threats.