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May 17, 2012
Independent report confirms UCLA admissions process working as intended by faculty
The process continues to give highest weight to academic merit while also considering applicants' full array of personal challenges and achievements.
May 14, 2012
Micro-parks for Los Angeles
A UCLA urban planning professor who devises strategies to turn characterless, unappealing urban streets and sidewalks into inviting, pedestrian-friendly environments is hoping to bring downtown L.A. its first active-recreation parklet.
May 14, 2012
Scholar takes on unexplored terrain of Vietnam history and culture
George Dutton, an associate professor of Southeast Asian studies, credits his lifelong interest in that region of the world to his parents — antiwar activists in the Vietnam War era.
May 14, 2012
Doctors, ex-model and others share sad stories of mothers worldwide
Former supermodel Christy Turlington Burns was at UCLA to discuss her directorial debut, "No Woman, No Cry," which chronicles the stories of at-risk pregnant women from four parts of the world.
May 14, 2012
Helping Los Angeles to eat right
A trio of UCLA public health professors are working to change the food choices that East Los Angeles residents make by renovating convenience stores to highlight fresh produce — and involving the community in the transformation.
May 14, 2012
UCLA study finds promising academic trends at new Watts-area charter high school
In the four years since historically low-performing Locke High School became a charter, student achievement levels have increased markedly.
May 11, 2012
Statement regarding recent allegations of discrimination
Allegations of reprehensible and derogatory behavior made against UCLA in a recent lawsuit are of serious concern to the campus community.
May 11, 2012
10 Questions: Michael Ross on the curse of being oil-rich
Professor of political science Michael Ross' new book is "The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations," from Princeton University Press.
May 09, 2012
NYU scholar named dean of UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
May 09, 2012
UCLA's Andrea Ghez, Terence Tao elected to American Philosophical Society
