The three-time gold medal winner, Bruin alum and philanthropist will speak to graduates at all three UCLA College ceremonies on June 12 at Pauley Pavilion.
The UCLA scholars — Richard L. Hasen, Jamie Kreiner, Heather Maynard, Sean Metzger and Kay Kyurim Rhie — are engaged in transformative work in areas ranging from law and chemistry to theater, musical composition and medieval studies.
A little over a week after making UCLA history by winning their first-ever NCAA championship, the UCLA women’s basketball team has notched another historic mark — with the most players selected from a single university program in a WNBA draft.
In a Los Angeles Times commentary, UCLA’s Benjamin Karney discusses his lab’s effort to review what social scientists have learned about the consequences of legalizing same-sex marriage in the two decades since Massachusetts paved the way for LGBTQ couples to marry. Read more about UCLA in today’s LAist’s “AirTalk” and the New York Times Magazine.