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UCLA’s experts are no strangers to working together. Now a generous gift has taken their teamwork to another…
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Endowment gifts will sustain UCLA’s work well into the future. Alan Leve ’51 clearly understands that. He has…
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Primi! The first music school in the UC system, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music also leads the…
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Ron and Anne Mellor met on a blind date while they were both teaching at Stanford. A photo…
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