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When UCLA captured its first NCAA baseball championship this week, it paved the way for another campus first - the first-ever Capital One Cup victory for the Bruin men. UCLA will be awarded $200,000 toward student-athlete scholarships.

UCLA had already won the most national championships of any NCAA school, but never the baseball title — until tonight. The Bruins closed that gap in their legacy of sports excellence by sweeping the College World Series, defeating Mississippi State 8-0. A celebration will be scheduled for Thursday at Jackie Robinson Stadium.

This beautiful image is not an artsy photo of a pink flower. It’s a prize-winning picture of an electrically conductive molecule captured with a scanning electron microscope.

The annual spring migration of students from UCLA residence halls has been completed.

Look here for news, photos and videos about 2013 graduates and commencement ceremonies at UCLA. The commencement season on campus began in May.

Brettler, who is completing his M.F.A. in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, recently won the $50,000 Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize awarded annually to the best student screenplay in the nation that uses science and technology themes or characters to tell an engaging story.

UCLA vocal studies chair Michael Dean coaches graduating seniors Shannon Foley and Ashley Yoon, who will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at commencement ceremonies on June 14 at Pauley Pavilion.

Classics major David Shamash and communications major Serena Lee were chosen to speak to the College of Letters and Science's dual ceremonies at Pauley Pavilion.

The 22nd annual festival, which runs from June 7 through 13 at venues on the UCLA campus and other locations, features a wide variety of screenings, showcases and events.

Angela Sanchez pulls off magic tricks — literally and figuratively. Matthew Rosenstein knew he wanted to do something that helped others. Andrew Nicholls served eight years in the U.S. Army, including a year in Iraq. Victor Ruiz knew the odds weren’t in his favor.

Crystal Valdez is among just 73 Americans — and 625 chemistry students from around the world — selected to meet with 34 laureates at an international conference in Germany.

UCLA student screenwriter Barnett Brettler won a $50,000 prize from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his script’s realistic depictions of science.

Thanks to the generosity of the Wasserman Foundation and other supporters, UCLA students are pursuing high-level research in a diverse range of subjects.

Spring Sing's relocation to Pauley Pavilion from the Los Angeles Tennis Center increases audience capacity by almost 20 percent and production capabilities by far more. "We’ve sold more tickets so far than the Alumni Association has ever sold," says executive director Turner Pope.

Mick Jagger has been lamenting for 47 years that he "can't get no satisfaction." On a star-studded Friday night, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band got plenty from 19,000 rabid Rolling Stones fans on hand for the opening night of the Stones' "50 & Counting" tour at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles.

"An event like this shows how involved UCLA is with things that span beyond this campus," said a student participaing in the activities, which included a campus walk and blood drive.

Twitter has been a flurry of ecstatic tweets as high school seniors across the nation learn if they've been admitted to UCLA’s fall 2013 freshman class.

This op-ed by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was published March 14 in the Washington Post.

Engineers Without Borders, a student group at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has taken on the mission of providing a community in Guatemala with a reliable source of clean, potable water.

A UCLA student has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of an acquaintance following a party where alcohol was available, campus police said.

Soccer defender Joe Sofia has the highest cumulative GPA among current UCLA athletes. "I don’t value academics over soccer, or soccer over academics; I work very hard to balance them equally."

Twenty years ago, Tatenda Mbudzi was a young boy who delighted in watching even the tiniest bit of American cartoons from his home in Zimbabwe. Today, he is a UCLA master’s student in the School of Theater, Film and Television’s highly competitive Producer’s Program and will be rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in Hollywood as he takes to the stage Sunday at the 85th annual Academy Awards.

Facilities Management mechanics suit up in scuba gear to clean each of UCLA’s pools twice a week and they find the weirdest things while they’re underwater.

Dance Marathon is in its 12th year of busting moves for pediatric AIDS – 26 hours of moves. On Feb. 16 at 11 a.m., the dancing will commence for hundreds of students in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, and it won’t stop until 1 p.m. the next day.

More than 200 Bruins and members of the UCLA community dropped in for free haircuts Thursday to donate their tresses to make children's wigs.