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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.

UCLA inventors recently presented their innovative research at UC’s annual Technology Commercialization Forum held recently in San Francisco.

Nobel Prize recipient Randy Schekman, Jane Fonda and Herbie Hancock are among the prominent figures delivering remarks at UCLA's 2014 commencement ceremonies.

The campaign seeks to secure the institution's future as a center for higher education where innovative teaching, groundbreaking research and dedicated service advance the public good.

The Centennial Campaign for UCLA launches with campus festivities May 16-17. The $4.2 billion fundraising effort conclude with UCLA’s 100th anniversary in 2019.

Chancellor Gene Block presented the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor to an individual for extraordinary achievement, to James (Jim) L. Easton May 8 at the Chancellor’s Residence.

Enrolling highly qualified transfer students is an important priority, UC and UCLA leaders say. To streamline the transfer process and make it more transparent to community college students, UC President Janet Napolitano and a task force she appointed are laying out a plan to do just that.

Marking its 50th year, the UCLA School of Dentistry is celebrating its five-decade rise to becoming one of the leading research-intensive dental schools in the nation with a yearlong celebration that will start this weekend.

In the late '70s, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett proved it's never too late to pursue one's dreams, leaving a successful career in the corporate world to study archaeology at UCLA. Now she's giving back.

Two new gifts will fund research in stem cell science and digestive diseases and support faculty recruitment at two of UCLA's renowned research centers.

Before Angela Davis taught her first college course at UCLA 45 years ago, the UC Board of Regents tried to fire her because she was a member of the Communist Party. Now she’s returning to teach at UCLA as a Regents’ Lecturer and Distinguished Professor Emerita.

Judea Pearl, a UCLA faculty member since 1969, was honored for his 'distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

UCLA professor Demetri Terzopoulos has been named a Royal Academy Fellow for his work to unify the fields of computer vision and computer graphics.

University of California experts gathered for a daylong summit in the state Capitol to discuss impacts and implications of one the most severe droughts on record.

Mr. Sterling's divisive and hurtful comments demonstrate that he does not share UCLA's core values as a public university that fosters diversity, inclusion and respect.

With the worldwide celebration of Earth Day taking place this week in more than 190 countries, a number of organizations have taken note of UCLA’s commitment to sustainability and environmental excellence.

With two deans and six additional faculty members elected, UCLA is home to more 2014 fellows than any other public university in the country.

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 recently introduced bill would, if approved, create a loan program for undocumented students who qualify for in-state tuition, but don't qualify for federal student aid.

UCLA political scientist Miriam A. Golden and UCLA historian Robin D.G. Kelley will use their 2014 fellowships to complete book projects.

Harry Winston, Inc., recently announced a $1 million pledge to the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute to establish the Harry Winston Fellowships.

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

Welcome to the updated UCLA Newsroom. More than just the design is new, so have a look around.

The newly admitted students include 9,128 California high school seniors, 83 percent of whom graduated in the top 9 percent of their classes, as well as highly qualified students from 48 other states, the District of Columbia, and 77 countries.

Becoming a formal department would bolster UCLA's scholarship and opportunities in African American studies.