UCLA-USC rivalry week kicked off Sunday night with university officials and students taking steps to protect the Bruin Bear and the newly unveiled John Wooden statue. Read more...

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UCLA students stay out all night in front of the John Wooden statue outside Pauley Pavilion to ward of potential USC pranksters during the week leading up to the annual UCLA–USC football game.

With the annual rivalry football game between UCLA and USC less than one week away, about 830 UCLA and USC students, alumni, family and friends raced around the UCLA campus on Sunday morning to participate in the 5-kilometer race, "We Run the City." Read more...

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“We Run the City,” a 5K race between UCLA and USC students that was held for the first time this year, started out in Wilson Plaza Sunday morning. The rivalry run, which raises money for Special Olympics Southern California, will be held on both campuses alternatively until the 2015 Special Olympics.

Parents and friends in tow, children ran around South Campus on Saturday, making fossil casts, programming robots and eating liquid nitrogen ice cream. Read more...

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Children observe a model of the Orion constellation during the annual Exploring Your Universe! event held in South Campus on Saturday.

Melissa Ma is the only student at UCLA pursuing the language, interaction and culture minor. And she'll be the last. Read more...

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Melissa Ma, a fourth-year psychology student, is the last student left pursuing the language, interaction and culture minor at UCLA. The College of Letters and Science Faculty Executive Committee voted last month to discontinue the minor. However, Ma is allowed to complete her minor first.

Gary A. Clark Jr. officially started as the new UCLA director of admission on Monday. Read more...

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Gary Clark is the new admissions director at UCLA. He previously served as a senior associate admissions director at USC.

About a dozen patients, each wearing a thin clear hood, sat under dim lights within a large cylindrical chamber. Read more...

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Joey Knox, a technician at the UCLA Gonda Center for Hyperbaric Medicine, puts on an oxygen bubble over patient Jody Glasser, who is currently being treated for damaged blood vessels incurred during radiation therapy for cancer.