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Recent UCLA grad helped Wikipedia set the record straight on ‘Rain Man’ and autism

Lucy Berbeo | December 21, 2022 The 1988 film “Rain…
Emmy-winning actor and comedic icon Jim Varney played the beloved character Ernest P. Worrell. | Courtesy of PaganomationEmmy-winning actor and comedic icon Jim Varney played the beloved character Ernest P. Worrell. | Courtesy of Paganomation

UCLA’s Jim Varney Scholarship pays the actor’s generous legacy forward

Jonathan Riggs | December 20, 2022 The Kentucky-born…
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Yoon Jae (Eric) Lim ’16 named UCLA’s fourth Schwarzman Scholar

UCLA alumnus Yoon Jae (Eric) Lim ’16 has been named…
Shirlee Smith, UCLA alumna and creator of Black Boyle Heights Facebook group

UCLA alumna seeks to preserve history of Black Boyle Heights

Shirlee Smith wants you to know about the Black community that…
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UCLA receives $1.5 million to further waterworks project at Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

The gift from Charlie and Peggy Norris will help bring sustainable…
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Group image of Miguel García-Garibay, dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences; Steven Chu, Stanford’s William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2009-2013; Mani L. Bhaumik, Institute founder, physicist and philanthropist; David Gross, UCSB’s Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Andrea Ghez, UCLA's Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine Chair in Astrophysics and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics; Gene D. Block, UCLA Chancellor; and Zvi Bern, director of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute.

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics

Jonathan Riggs | July 28, 2022 "I believe in one thing,”…
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$1.2 million from Kachigian family trust establishes UCLA lectureship in Armenian studies

Armenian language scholar Hagop Kouloujian has been appointed…
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Why I Give

By Lisa Montes '92 I grew up with an activist single…

Trailblazer’s Gift Honors Role of Women in Politics

By Margaret MacDonald UCLA’s department of political…