Jackie Robinson Day 2026: Celebrating the legacy of the Bruin legend

From the UCLA baseball team’s Jackie-inspired jerseys to the No. 42 plaques around campus, see how Bruins are honoring the man who 79 years ago broke the racial barrier in professional baseball — the alumnus many call the greatest UCLA athlete of all time.

How do LA residents feel about their quality of life? Hint: It’s bad

Logging the lowest overall score in the 11-year history of UCLA’s annual Los Angeles County Quality of Life Index, residents cited concerns over immigration enforcement, education, wildfire recovery and affordability. Find out what else contributed to the drop.

Adapting oak trees for climate change, one acorn at a time

Climate change and habitat conversion threaten the survival of the trees, which provide a habitat for thousands of plant and animal species, support local economies and play a vital role in purging carbon from the atmosphere. UCLA researchers and colleagues have pioneered a new conservation approach that uses cutting-edge gene sequencing to change the game.

Coachella: Art installation by UCLA alumni invites festivalgoers to slow down and look closely

Benjamin Freyinger and Andrew Holder created the large-scale “Visage Brut,” a four-story “tower” that reimagines the logic and mythology of a totem pole through the language of contemporary construction.

UCLA group awarded $5 million to develop AI for math advancement

The new team ALPHA — which includes Fields Medal winner and “Mozart of Math” Terence Tao — aims to transform how mathematical discoveries are made, formalized and verified, with a focus on partial differential equations, number theory and complexity theory.

Los Angeles air used to make people sick every day. What changed? — and more media coverage of UCLA

On an episode of KCRW Reports, UCLA’s Ann Carlson discusses her new book, “Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air.” Read more about UCLA in today’s Associated Press and New York Times.