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A Compass for Success
Research shows that quality mentoring can make a world of difference, particularly for college students as they navigate…
Campaign Celebration Sweeps Southward
UCLA’s capacity for excellence and compassion is as boundless as the generosity of its stakeholders. An April 8…
Gifts to Better Brain Health
When Laurie and Steven Gordon care about issues, they invest in the people who are working to address…
Getting and Giving a Good Start
UCLA’s upcoming centennial year is the perfect time to reflect on barriers the university has broken, doors it…
Family-Centered Philanthropy
“Giving is about where your money and time make a difference,” says UCLA Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and…
Enterprising Ideas
UCLA embraces entrepreneurial education, so much so that in 2014 Forbes magazine ranked UCLA fifth among the nation’s leading entrepreneurial…
Engineering Frontiers
The third time might be the charm, but the fourth gift is the most transformative. At least that’s…
Engineering Advances
The first things engineers devise are ideas. From there, they put together technologies, processes, and materials to make…
A Landscape for Learning
UCLA’s academic disciplines are as diverse as donors’ passions, making it possible for philanthropists to find the ideal…
Grand Opening. Great Times.
Family, friends, philanthropists, and some of UCLA’s most fascinating experts came together on two different occasions this fall…
A New Investment in a Legacy Venture
There’s a lot of heart behind UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award. A creative,…
Hope for Healing
Across the country, 250,000 people live with spinal cord injury. The paralysis that often results has been thought…
In the Market for Excellence
When it comes to business, few know it like UCLA alumnus Bernard (“Bernie”) Briskin ’49. After serving in…
Invaluable Resources
When it comes to education, research, and service, UCLA is one of Los Angeles’s — and the world’s…
Joining Forces for the Future
UCLA builds bridges on campus and in the community. Sometimes it connects people for life. In 1962, two…
Laughter and the Best Medicine
“Nice guys finish first,” comedian, writer, and actor Garry Shandling famously said. “If you don’t know that, then…
Leaders and Landmarks
When Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80 and his wife, Susan, recently pledged $20 million through their…
Meet His Match
With the goal of encouraging others to come to the proverbial table and endow faculty chairs in UCLA…
Philanthropy with Foresight
“Visionary philanthropy can alter the course of science,” says Dr. John Mazziotta, vice chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences, and…
Off and Running
When UCLA publicly launched the Centennial Campaign for UCLA in May 2014, what we really kicked off was…
Philanthropy’s Phenomenal Force
Physics, of course, is the study of matter and its motion through time and space. No one knows…
Real Science on Screen
What do screenwriting, an education in human rights and ethnic studies, time spent in Uganda, and a fascination…
Ripple Effects
Scholarships make dreams of coming to UCLA come true. And that’s just the start of what students achieve…
Visionaries
The Bruin family is about to get bigger. To help more students get an engineering education and lead…
Solving for X
UCLA, known for its pioneering spirit and bold ideas, is joining forces with another big thinker to inspire…
Blazing a Trail for Future Bruins
In the late 1940s, many saw the West Coast as a scientific desert compared to the East, home…
Big Bang for STEM
Here’s a true Hollywood story: The co-creators and cast and crew of one of the world’s most watched…
Art to Expand Our Horizons
Chances are, if you knew that one of the top university museums in America — one unparalleled in…
A Spectrum of Support
You can almost sense the synapses firing across campus after James L. Easton’s ’59 recent $36 million gift…
Support for All Students
A UCLA educational experience often inspires graduates to give back. As a student, Mukund Padmanabhan, MS ’89, PhD…
Taking a Stand Against Depression
What starts at UCLA spreads hope. From breakthrough research to new technologies, discoveries developed on campus reach communities…
Teaming Up to Transform L.A.
UCLA crosses divides, connects disciplines, and comes together to promote progress. And thanks to a new round of…
Top Talent at the Table
The Centennial Campaign has helped UCLA reach a lot of milestones leading up to the big one: the…
Giving for the Good of All
Strengthening families. Improving the environment. Enriching the arts. These are just a few of the ways Anthony (Tony)…
Engineering Up
The new flagship facility for UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is up — and stunning. Engineering VI’s design…
Turning Talent into Triumph
UCLA’s office of enrollment management works to recruit L.A.’s and California’s most committed young scholars from every background…
An Environment for Diversity
When people of all backgrounds approach any endeavor or discipline, they bring a vital variety of perspectives and…
Gifts to Sustain Sustainability
In years to come, when California sees more leaders dedicated to climate issues, give some credit to UCLA…
Key Partners for Key Priorities
For more than 50 years, with gifts to multiple areas, Eugene Rosenfeld ’56 and Maxine Rosenfeld have made…
Strength in Numbers
How does UCLA top having its best fundraising year ever? By surpassing the Centennial Campaign goal 18 months…