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Pandemonium broke out today, Match Day, on the terrace at Covel Commons when 165 medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ripped open envelopes to find out where they have been accepted for residency.

Started by two UCLA dental students, Operation Bruin Smiles helps UCLA's military veterans and former foster youth pay for major dental work.

Aerospace engineering graduate student Gary Li won first place last week at UCLA Grad Slam, a campuswide competition where graduate students give three-minute presentations on their research.

A growing list of interdisciplinary minors is attracting UCLA students who seek to broaden their post-graduation prospects and interact with peers in different areas of study.

Seth and Lauren Rogen have formed Hilarity for Charity to spread the word about Alzheimer's to millennials.

UCLA Library staffers help make instructors aware of potential classroom resources that are free or low-cost alternatives.

UCLA graduate students are learning how to explain their research to a broad audience through the Grad Slam competition.

Kimberly Anyadike made national headlines in 2009 by piloting a Cessna from Compton to Virginia, and back. Now the aspiring cardiovascular surgeon shines in the classroom and community.

Thanks to the law school’s Supreme Court Clinic, the court will issue rulings on cases dealing with free speech, the right to a speedy trial, search and seizure, and deportation.

Yaroslavsky serves as executive director of the new Los Angeles Initiative, a base for his teaching assignments and policy research.

Five faculty members from various departments received grants in 2015 designed to increase the number of African Americans in doctoral programs and support their trajectory toward academic careers in the arts and sciences.

The Technology Fellows Program lets graduate students in the life and physical sciences learn the ins and outs of technology transfer.

The six UCLA undergraduates are vying for top honors in the inaugural FuturizeX Student Challenge, a competition that aims to inspire the next generation of innovators.

The confirmation creates UCLA’s 12th professional school. Judi Smith, dean and vice provost emerita of the UCLA College, will serve as interim dean.

Funds will support the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms project, or EPIC, which will examine students’ changing learning styles and train faculty and graduate students in effective teaching methods.

About 50 UCLA students, staff and alumni spent their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday building planter boxes, planting fruits and vegetables and painting at the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center.

New University of California policies prohibiting sexual violence and sexual harassment and governing the investigation and adjudication of sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations against students went into effect on Jan. 1.

At an emotional event, the Sincuir family met three of the 27 people who had donated 50 units of blood products to save Jorge Sincuir’s life.

A Ph.D. student at UCLA has created a startup with a friend that offers a geolocation-based app to assist instructors with taking class attendance while helping students keep up with deadlines. But there’s a twist.

The campus continued to attract large numbers of California applicants who would be the first in their family to graduate from a four-year college and students from low-income families.

College-going rates have soared in the area around the UCLA Community School, which opened in L.A.'s Koreatown in 2009.

UCLA junior transfer student Jendi Samai is one of thousands of community college students whose transition to a four-year college has been supported by UCLA's Center for Community College Partnerships.

UCLA Newsroom revisits some of our favorite news items from the year. Publishing resumes on Jan. 4.

The campus also ranked among the top public universities based on the salaries of graduates who received financial aid.

Starting this winter, freshmen will have a chance to dive into UCLA’s rich history through a series of Fiat Lux seminars designed to explore various aspects of the institution’s  founding.