Lawyers and other law professionals faced inquiry by students and prospective law school applicants in the latest UCLA Feud, “Why Law?” Based on the game show “Family Feud,” a panel consisting of various members of the legal profession were quizzed on their careers to help students determine whether law school would be the right choice for them, ahead of February’s Law School Admissions Test. Read more...

Steve McNichols remembers being inspired to act after he heard about a beating of a group of activists in Alabama in the early 1960s. Then an undergraduate student at UCLA, McNichols was one of many UCLA students who took an active role in the Civil Rights Movement. Read more...

Hedy Epstein, a German Holocaust survivor, encouraged questions at her lecture Tuesday night but had one small request of her audience ““ if they were going to ask questions, they would have to speak up. Read more...

Amanda Noroña and Amy Penn both represented China in the Chinese Council of the United Nations this past weekend. But these students never went to the U.N. Read more...

In an article published last month, the New York Times reported that university officials from across the country are concerned about their schools’ national academic rankings and have actively implemented policies in order to improve their rankings. Read more...

UCLA developers, working on the first of its kind in the nation, plan to begin a project that aims to help city emergency workers better respond in the event of a disaster. Read more...

In 1939, she told herself she would wait until the war was over. In 1945, she told herself she was sure her family would be reunited. Read more...