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College website features video and photos from 2011 Commencement ceremony
Visit the home page for the College's Commencement home page…
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Award-winning book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” chosen for the Common Book Program
The best-selling book about a poor black farmer and how the cells…
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CityLab: “Feeling like Watson and Crick”
Through the College's CityLab Program, which celebrates its 10th…
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Paraplegic man stands, steps with assistance and moves his legs voluntarily
A team of scientists at UCLA, the University of Louisville, and…
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Three College students receive humanitarian awards for volunteer efforts
Jonathan Ditty, Gabriel Gomez, and Andrew Kaddis were honored…
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Three College professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Geochemist T. Mark Harrison, molecular biologist Steven Jacobsen,…
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UCLA study identifies cell of origin for squamous cell cancer
Squamous cell cancers, which can occur in multiple organs in…
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Two College scholars elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Biologist Jeffrey H. Miller and archaeologist Lothar Von Falkenhausen…
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College alumna Kay Ryan wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Kay Ryan, who received her B.A. and M.A. in English at UCLA,…
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Two College scholars win 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships
Four UCLA professors -- including two from the College of Letters…