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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.