Students + Campus

Rick Martinez found himself back on the campus where he sought shelter when he was homeless. This time, he was enrolled in a program to develop skills to launch a business.

When Luz Corona Gomez picked up her M.D. degree last June from UCLA's medical school, her parents and four sisters proudly celebrated with her. All five daughters in this family of farmworkers have college degrees.

Sixteen urban planning students from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs worked on a research project to assist and inform Mexico City officials and their consultant on ways to improve life in Tacubaya.

UCLA is sending 28 Olympians to Brazil so far. Incoming freshman Mallory Pugh is the youngest member of the U.S. women's soccer team.

Incoming UCLA freshman Madison Kocian was selected to the 2016 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team after a world-class showing on the uneven bars.

UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams, will lead the design and engineering work needed to build the first presidential library that will be located in a predominantly African-American urban setting.

A towering eucalyptus tree fell across Charles E. Young Drive East on Thursday afternoon. No injuries were reported.

Hailing from nearly every county in California, 49 states and 81 countries, the students are the most ethnically, socioeconomically and geographically diverse admitted group in UCLA history.

Sixty-eight students studying in Europe this summer got the opportunity of a lifetime to see immediate reaction to the vote to leave the European Union.

The League of American Bicyclists ranks UCLA as a Silver Bicycle-Friendly University. A holder of that distinction since 2011, UCLA is one of just 10 schools to move up in standing over the last year.

Popular KCRW “Good Food” host Evan Kleiman is treating UCLA students to a thoughtful exploration into issues of food and sustainability in her summer course, “We are Stardust: The Moral Ecology of Food."

Graduation keynote speaker and perennial Extension student Peggie Fariss reminisced about the early '80s when her career with the Walt Disney was at a crossroads.

UCLA students study aging through a prism of disciplines, from biology through public health, and interact with older adults.

One honoree, UCLA alumna Kelly Dumke, is already working on the front lines in communities in L.A. County against a well-known and entrenched enemy, early childhood obesity.

More than 5,500 seniors attended Friday's two commencement ceremonies for the UCLA College.

Altogether, the university has awarded more than 32,000 doctoral degrees since 1939.

We asked some graduating Bruins who they would like to thank as they prepare to leave UCLA with a new degree. It's not only who you think.

Mary Ries takes a leading role in orchestrating a once-in-their-lifetime celebration at Pauley Pavilion for thousands of graduating seniors and their families.

Because of her experience as a cancer patient and survivor, the UCLA nursing student believes she learned invaluable lessons in the care of and compassion for patients. She graduates on Saturday with a master of science degree in nursing.

Sociology major Kevin Hale discovered his aptitude for counseling people with addictions while in treatment for alcohol abuse. This fall, the graduating senior will start his master’s studies in social welfare.

Students, staff will collect items from the impromptu memorial around the Bruin statue today after professor William Klug's wife expressed interest in keeping the tributes to her husband.

Some 200 UCLA medical students in the Class of 2016 received their M.D.s Friday in Perloff Courtyard during the Hippocratic Oath Ceremony for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Two-time Academy Award winner Quentin Tarantino gave the keynote speech at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 14th Annual Design Showcase West Saturday.

Wayne Wong spent three years at UCLA studying microbiology and globalization, never suspecting that he would soon be facing issues he studied and discussed in the classroom in Uganda.

The UCLA campus community filled Bruin Plaza on Thursday night to share messages of solidarity and healing in a candlelight ceremony.