Avalon Dwight remembers the moment she opened her admission portal.
“I open it up, and I see the word ‘congratulations,’” Dwight said. “I immediately just start screaming.

This post was updated March 9 at 9:19 p.m.
Room sign-ups for returning students have come to a close, and many are feeling less than satisfied with their housing enrollment experience.

This post was updated March 2 at 11:23 p.m.
A UCLA comparative literature course is expanding access to educational materials with a textbook generated using artificial intelligence.

When the Palisades fire broke out Jan. 7, resident assistants in university housing considered their next steps.
Syed Tamim Ahmad, the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s international student representative and an RA for Rieber Vista, said there was confusion among RAs about whether they could leave campus.

As wildfires swept across Los Angeles County, UCLA students volunteered to support recovery efforts.
The fires – which have burned over 40,000 acres and displaced residents across the region – prompted urban and regional planning graduate student Alex Sun to step up as both a volunteer for distribution centers and a student of disaster management.

Around 10:50 a.m. in the Charles E. Young Research Library, the line for Cafe 451 steadily grew as students waited for the clock to hit 11 a.m.

In this episode of “This Week”, podcast contributor Izzy Greig and correspondents cover local elections and ballot measures, as well as UCLA’s men’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s water polo.

In a quiet third-floor Rolfe Hall classroom, evening light streamed through the window shutters as students joined this school year’s first meeting of the Dead Writers Society.

Ying-Ying Meng, the former director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, died April 11. She was 68.
Meng, who began working at the center in 2000, also served as a senior research scientist and the co-director of the CHPR’s Chronic Disease Program.

A faculty rally on campus. Updates from the war in Gaza. TikTok sues the U.S. government. Podcasts editor Jack Garland and Podcasts contributor Reese Dahlgren discuss these stories and more.