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An energetic crowd of more than 3,000 UCLA students, alumni and fans roared their support for the Bruins football team in Wilson Plaza at Thursday evening’s annual “Beat ‘SC” rally.

Peter Thomas Dalis, who served as director of athletics at UCLA for 19 years, died Saturday, Nov.15, at his home in Pacific Palisades due to complications from multiple myeloma.

Researchers from UCLA and Architected Materials will use the grant to continue developing breakthrough technology to reduce the frequency and severity of head injuries to football players.

Two facilities heavily used by UCLA students and intercollegiate athletic teams have reopened following completion of flood-damage repairs.

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

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.

Less than a year ago, Emily Gordon was a junior biochemistry major at UCLA aiming to become a lab researcher. Now, she’s being scouted to compete in the 2016 Olympics as a marathon runner although she had never run one before until last October.

A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

A documentary about the 2011 UCLA quidditch team's bid for the sport's world cup started as a five-minute film class project. "Mudbloods” will open in select theaters this fall.

The floor suffered water damage in the flooding that followed a major water main break under Sunset Boulevard just off campus on July 29.

The annual week of practices once again attracts hundreds and hundreds of fans hoping for a chance to get an autograph from — or a picture with — an international soccer superstar.

For the fifth consecutive year, one of the world’s most storied soccer teams plans to train in private practices on UCLA's North Athletic Field.

It's been 30 years this month since UCLA was transformed into an international Olympic Village, when residence halls housed over 4,000 people, Bruin Walk bustled with activity, and over 160,000 spectators roared at Pauley Pavilion.

After more than two decades as the radio voice of UCLA football and basketball, Chris Roberts wants to step down while he's still on top.

A new facility located near Pauley Pavilion would provide both the men's and women's basketball teams with practice gyms, lockers rooms and other amenities.

The victory over North Carolina is the team's second NCAA championship and UCLA's record-extending 111th.

Former UCLA track and cross country star Meb Keflezighi, who won the 2014 Boston Marathon, was honored today the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

Since last September's official announcement of a campaign to raise private funds for a football facility, the UCLA Athletic Department has received approximately $40 million in cash and pledges for its new football performance center.

A year after the Boston bombings, UCLA's most accomplished distance runner wins with a time of 2:08:37.

Members of UCLA women's soccer team added some important accessories to a bronze bear statue outside Gov. Jerry Brown's office at the State Capitol, where they were honored Monday for winning the team's first-ever NCAA championship. UCLA head coach...

The UCLA men’s basketball team opens its Pac-12 schedule at home against crosstown rival USC this Sunday at 12 p.m. Led by sophomore guard Jordan Adams, the high-scoring Bruins (14th in the country at 85.5 ppg) are 11-2 and the team is off to...

Members of the championship Bruin women's soccer team that brought in UCLA's historic 110th NCAA title got to savor their victory on NBC's "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.

The UCLA Bruins spent Thanksgiving before their victory over USC serving up a feast for about 500 homeless individuals and their families. Their guests receive services from the Veterans Administration and PATH, an organization that...

The UCLA Athletic Department has selected ZGF Architects LLP, an award-winning architectural firm, to design a new football training facility.

After nearly four decades of bringing his own brand of positive "Bruin Family" cheerleading to the UCLA sideline, alumni cheerleader Geof Strand is hanging up his hat and retiring his bell following the Bruins' home finale against Arizona State on...