UCLA has received a $100 million donation, the second-largest donation in the university's history.
Alumni Meyer and Renee Luskin gave $50 million to the UCLA School of Public Affairs.
The other $50 million will go toward the construction of a residential conference center and faculty club, which will be built on the location of the current Faculty Center. Read more...

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Renee and Meyer Luskin donated $100 million to the UCLA School of Public Affairs and the construction of a residential conference center. (credit: UCLA)

UC Board of Regents member Jesse Cheng and Student Regent-designate Alfredo Mireles Jr. Read more...

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Student Regent Jesse Cheng attended the UC Board of Regents meeting at UC San Diego last week.

The UCLA Game Lab is a bright, quirky room that looks more fantastical than practical. Read more...

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Hayley Greenhalgh, right, a fourth-year Design | Media Arts student, models a sensory capturing device used in game simulation in the UCLA Game Lab.

Somewhere in the midst of the Westwood underground lies a 19 meter-long machine. The LArge Plasma Device, as it is officially called, produces plasma in artificial form and takes high-speed photos of the material, which is so volatile that it splits apart in a millionth of a second. Plasma is the most common state of matter in the universe, found in stars and the space between them. Read more...

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Walter Gekelman, director of the Basic Plasma Science Facility, shows students the LArge Plasma Device, a machine used to help physicists understand plasma.