After the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 devastated the economy of many Thai villages, two groups of Muslim women in the village of Kamphuan were forced to restart their lives. Read more...

For most undergraduates, the path to UCLA is an application followed by an acceptance letter received while still in high school. Read more...

Photo: Kaya Norgaard, a third-year Latin American studies student, traveled from the University of Copenhagen to study abroad at UCLA. Her interest in Latin American studies comes from the two years she spent living in Brazil.

De Neve Plaza Room's seats and walls were packed on Wednesday night to watch a keyboardist in lumberjack attire with clown face paint, a student playing a double bass and a foot tambourine while singing an original song in French and English, and 10 other acts competing in Pi Kappa Phi's Acoustic Coffee House event. Read more...

Photo: Donation boxes line the walls inside De Neve Plaza Room Wednesday during an event for Push America, a charity founded by the fraternity Pi Kappa Phi. The event raised $1,400 for the organization, which recently won $25,000 in the Chase Community Giving program on Facebook.