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A Global Pandemic Is Here On March 11, The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 epidemic a pandemic. COVID-19 is one of the most urgent...
Supporting the Researchers of Tomorrow Walter Mancia M.S. ’15 was 15 years old, knew no English and had little education, yet he left Honduras on his own and made the...
UCLA Radiological Sciences is recognized as one of the leading radiology departments worldwide. This Fund supports ongoing advancement of the science through clinical and...
Research That Makes a Difference Twenty-first-century America has a new social and cultural reality, signaled by demographic shifts. The growing Chicano / Latino community now...
The faculty members of UCLA’s School of Law are leaders in their respective fields and the mainstay of the school’s high-quality legal education programs.
Conserve and Protect Using a radical genomic tool, UCLA conservation biologist Brad Shaffer uncovered clues on how people can benefit from desert tortoises’ remarkable...
GIVING CLIMATE RESEARCH WINGS When birds fly overhead, where do they go? The Bird Genoscape Project, conducted by the Center for Tropical Research at UCLA, is mapping...
Understanding an Ever-Changing California California is a vastly expanding, richly diverse and constantly changing state. UCLA’s California Center for Population...
From Care to a Cure Debilitating diseases require revolutionary breakthroughs in research and care. Gliomas make up 80 percent of brain tumors; 75 percent of people diagnosed...
The UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment plays a leading role in developing an improved understanding of the biological and psychosocial bases of autism.
The UCLA Women’s Healthcare Research Program supports research that provides the highest level of care to women with polycystic ovary syndrome and other androgen-related...
The UCLA Brain Research Institute’s mission touches all aspects of neuroscience, from molecules to the mind, from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside.
PRESERVING THE PAST WHILE ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE The library of the past was dusty, full of stacks of books, and quiet. Pin-drop quiet. Today’s library—the library of the...
Support of the IRLE, which is dedicated to the study, teaching and discussion of labor and employment issues, helps maintain program excellence.
Support preeminent investigators dedicated to conducting high-impact multidisciplinary research aimed at preventing new HIV infections, reducing morbidity, and ultimately...
Engaging in transformative research on all aspects of Iranian antiquity, including its reception in the medieval and modern periods, and promoting cross-cultural and...
BUILD THE FUTURE TODAY As UCLA moves into its second century, we look back on the achievements and accomplishments that have made us the No. 1 public research university in...
A Call to Duty, A Historic Opportunity With COVID-19, we are experiencing one of the gravest public health emergencies in generations. In the earliest days of this novel...
Investing in future community leaders Students in the Undergraduate Program in Public Affairs aspire to take on the most world’s most pressing issues. They are deeply...
SETTING THE FOUNDATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE AFRICA Central Africa is home to great biodiversity and on pace toward a population of four billion people by the turn of the next...
Support projects which deliver leading-edge patient care, research, and education at the discretion of the UCLA Health System President.
Informing Policy, Improving Lives California leads the nation on many fronts, from sustainability initiatives to technological breakthroughs. With its plurality of Latino...
PROVIDING WORLD-CLASS FACILITIES FOR A WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH DEPARTMENT UCLA is home to the No. 1 clinical psychology program and No. 2 psychology department in the nation....
Revolutionizing Health Care What makes UCLA the perfect place for progress? As one of the nation’s youngest top universities, UCLA draws established experts and emerging...
GAINING EXPERIENCE, GALVANIZING DISCOVERY Behind each advance in health care is a scientific breakthrough…and behind most breakthroughs are graduate students driving that...
SAVING LIVES. PRECISELY. As recently as ten years ago, cancer patients were diagnosed according to cancer types—breast, stomach, lung, ovarian, melanoma, etc. For each type...
Exploring the history of our Solar System More than 1,500 meteorites comprise UCLA’s collection. Built over the past 80 years, it is the largest collection on the west coast...
Keeping the Music School at the Forefront of Music Education In January of 2016, the Herb Alpert School of Music was inaugurated as UCLA’s twelfth professional school and...
Stimulating the Body to Heal A 37-year-old diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease lost his ability to work and be a dad. Life as he knew it was over, he thought. But then UCLA...
Metabolic Pathways Lead to Therapeutic Advances At age 37, Dawn began the UCLA Risk Factor Obesity (RFO) program. She weighed 300 pounds and had struggled with obesity for 18...
Advancing Our Understanding of the Human Brain Brain diseases and disorders—such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease—cast a devastating toll on human lives. In order...
The College: Geography Chair’s Greatest Needs Professor Laurence C. Smith is no stranger to the ends of the earth. Professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography...
A Place to Study and Collaborate Emma Pelegri-O’Day came to UCLA in 2014. A Ph.D. candidate in organic chemistry (’18), she’d just left the University of Braunschweig,...
Decoding Society’s Most Devastating Diseases For David Eisenberg — professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at UCLA, as well as director of the UCLA Institute for...
HARNESSING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO CURE DISEASE AND IMPROVE HEALTH Immunology is at the threshold of healthcare transformation—think of it as the new frontier of medicine. In...
Conquering Cancer Through World-Class Research Grace Suomi was just 5 years old when her symptoms of Ewing’s sarcoma first appeared: terrible nightmares, soreness in her...
An Unprecedented Approach to Helping Everyone Thrive A big problem is also a big opportunity, a chance to change life for the better. Or, in the case of the UCLA Depression...
Creating the city of the future Founded in 2014, the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge is an interdisciplinary university-wide initiative aimed at applying UCLA research,...
Quality Performances Begin at UCLA TFT John Rubenstein originated the role of Pippin on Broadway in 1972 and returned to play Charlemagne in the triumphant, critically...
BRILLIANT TODAY, BRIGHTER TOMORROW UCLA scholarships create the opportunity for students to reach their full potential with access to the unparalleled resources, faculty and...
Blazing Trails in New Media New media and accessibility are recreating the content industry, and UCLA TFT is pioneering a completely new curriculum for that rapidly changing...
SUCCESS STARTS HERE At age 11, Kevin Argueta arrived in the U.S. after escaping poverty and violence in his native El Salvador. Seven years later, he gave a graduation speech...
Fostering greater understanding of Asia through a wide variety of research support, public programs and community outreach on East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Promoting collaborative and bilateral research on Mexican social, cultural and economic issues; relations between the U.S. and Mexico; and Mexico’s prominent place in...
Encouraging cooperative interdisciplinary research and academic initiatives related to Brazil and its emergence as an economic, political and cultural force in the world.
Promoting research and understanding of the climate, culture and economy in this multinational region of South America.
A vital regional, national and international resource, the institute promotes research and collaboration on important issues regarding Latin America.
The UCLA Center for World Languages coordinates language research, teaching and evaluation programs for a global community.
Fostering research and analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international relations, the Burkle Center brings the brightest minds to UCLA and encourages scholars to explore and...
Exploring key subjects and current issues in the Middle East through research, conferences, task forces and collaborations.
Promoting innovative research and public education to increase knowledge of the languages, cultures and societies of Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans,...
Facilitating awareness of issues concerning both Japan and the United States through teaching, research and academic collaboration.
Promoting the study of Southeast Asia through research, student scholarships, fellowships, language instruction, public lectures and conferences
Dedicated to educating the scholarly community and the broader American and Korean public about Korean civilization through research and collaboration.
Supporting research, public lectures, workshops and collaborations to raise the profile of South Asia at UCLA and in the community
The Center for Chinese Studies is an independent forum for dialogue and research on China’s past, present and future.
Creating awareness of issues of mutual concern to Canada and the United States through teaching, research and outreach.
Dedicated to teaching, research and public outreach related to Africa and the African diaspora.
A Passion for Fairness Students enter social welfare because they want to make a difference in the world by addressing a broad range of injustices and adversity. “The social...
Changing the World, One Community at a Time Adam Monaghan’s introduction into the world of urban planning was as fortuitous as it was unexpected. After graduating from...
Research That Makes a Difference The UCLA Department of Public Policy has an impressive roster of distinguished scholars who reflect a wide range of interests in social and...
Setting the Sights of Many on a Common Goal UCLA Grand Challenges are ambitious research projects that connect hundreds of faculty, students, community members and leading...
Faculty Excellence is Key to Anderson’s Success Distinguished faculty are a key component a of top-tier, competitive business school that merits impressive rankings....
Support of the CMRS, which provides a deeper understanding of how issues rooted in the past can resonate in the present, helps sustain its programs, fellowships and research...
Three Decades of Groundbreaking HIV/AIDS Research and CARE The UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) provides state-of-the-art medical care and conducts...
Transforming Cells, Revolutionizing Medical Care Using skin cells to repair brain tissue in stroke victims. Blocking specific cell signals that might stimulate the regrowth of...
Innovation for a Better World Our world faces difficult challenges: climate change, greenhouse warming and air pollution. To combat this, scientists are seeking ways to...
Serving as a foundation from which UCLA graduate students can achieve their goals, this Fund provides vital support for research, fellowship and academic programming.
LOVE. STUDY. STRUGGLE. In 1968, Black students at UCLA students demanded the establishment of a research center dedicated to the study of African American life, past, present,...
The Institute for Planets and Exoplanets (iPLEX) is an academic consortium of faculty, researchers and students to promote and advance planetary science research.
Committed to transformative creativity and critical inquiry in the visual arts. The top-ranked studio-art program in a public university nationally, the UCLA Department of Art...
The Philip C. Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Teaching exists to further high-quality K-12 mathematics activity and mathematics education research.
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women is an internationally recognized hub for research on gender, sexuality and women’s issues.
The UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture facilitates research and provides training in the interaction of natural selection, cultural transmission, social...
Lighting a Path Forward The American Indian Studies Center (AISC) is a product of social struggle—the sustained struggle to open a space of belonging for Native students...
Stages, Pages, Streets and Screens Through performance, media, and critical studies, UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance (WACD) faculty and students forge new...
Bringing the World to Westwood For more than half a century, the museum that’s now the Fowler Museum at UCLA has made the arts and cultural wonders of the non-Western world...
Teaching, Researching, and Creating Diverse Arts Communities With the goal of being at the center of the statewide and national debate regarding the importance of the arts for...
Part of the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute, this fund helps support the cutting-edge research of talented UCLA Pediatrics faculty members.
The Department of Education prepares students to be leaders in educational research, policy and practice–and to improve the learning experience for students of all ages.
Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers Students at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering are among the most talented and high-achieving in California and across the globe. More...
The Science of Life Growing up on a sheep farm in rural Australia, Professor Amander Clark had plenty of opportunities to witness the miracle of birth. It made a profound...
The department’s innovative research and education programs include the synthesis of complex materials that have the potential to solve global health and environmental...
The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library supports health and life sciences research as well as the educational and patient-care responsibilities of faculty, students and...
Scientists, educators and students work together to achieve the highest quality research and educational experience in the fields of microbiology, immunology and molecular...
The UCLA Bioengineering department performs cutting-edge research and prepares future leaders in a wide range of bioengineering careers with the tools for lifelong success.
A World-class Intellectual Resource Illuminated medieval manuscripts and electronic scientific journals. Award-winning author’s notes and journals of Holocaust...
Measurable Impact Astronomer Andrea Ghez looks for black holes and develops optics, while colleague James Larkin works on the Thirty Meter Telescope. Mathematician Joseph...
Dream Fulfillment Brought to this country as young children by parents hoping to give them a better life, they have overcome language barriers, discrimination and economic...
A Richer Academic Experience Almost 90 percent of UCLA undergraduates earn a degree. The Division of Undergraduate Education would like to push that percentage even higher...
Steward Scholars of a Healthier Planet Taking her first evolutionary biology class changed the life of Mericien Venzon ’14. Venzon, a biology major, previously thought...
Society’s Greatest Challenges The social sciences examine social interaction at every level, from the family to the community, government and global society — and in...
Life Sciences Provide Food for Thought Life scientist Amy Rowat always has been fascinated by food. So when she came to UCLA in 2011 to establish her lab, she knew she had the...
Healing Begins Here Grace Suomi was just 5 years old when her symptoms of Ewing’s sarcoma first appeared: terrible nightmares, soreness in her jaw and loss of appetite....
Born in Santa Monica There’s a good reason more than 1,400 babies a year are born in the UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica. Prospective parents are attracted by The...
Making Alzheimer’s a Distant Memory Does music have the power to soothe a ravaged brain? Or even unlock memories lost to dementia? Gregory Cole, interim director of the Mary...
GUIDED BY A NURSING LEGEND Dean Marie J. Cowan was a living legend — literally. One of very few nurses designated as a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nurses, Cowan...
Global Thinkers One of the most popular undergraduate courses at UCLA is Introduction to Buddhism — a class offered through the Center for Buddhist Studies of the UCLA...
Promoting Awareness, Opening Minds Approximately one in four U.S. adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year, according to the National Institute of...
The FSPH Student Fellowship provides funding to bring public health students to UCLA to study, research, and serve.
Beltway Bruins Textbooks and lectures are one thing, but for any student contemplating policy-oriented work in the nation’s capital, the only way to appreciate the pulse of...
Language Saves Lives A visionary, Professor Bryan Kirschen (Ph.D. ’15) is on a mission. He’s trying to save a language on the verge of extinction: Judeo-Spanish, the...
Donations to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures help support groundbreaking research in the languages and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia.
Remembering the Past to Imagine the Future The Asian American Studies Center (AASC) at UCLA is one of the largest and most comprehensive centers of its kind in the nation....
The English Department maintains its strong commitment to traditional areas of study, while also supporting groundbreaking research and teaching in new approaches to literary...
The Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies promotes an understanding of the Near East through instruction and research in many fields and languages.
UCLA’s top-ranked Economics Department has an active faculty whose research is shaping policy on critical issues affecting the United States and the world.
With its world-class collection and cutting-edge resources, the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library is deeply committed to the law school’s research and teaching missions.
It’s a Gamer’s World Adeline Ducker, a fourth-year UCLA Design Media Arts (DMA) student, is designing a game to further develop a concept she thought up in one of...
ETHNIC STUDIES LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY The Institute of American Cultures (IAC) is home to UCLA’s four ethnic studies research centers— American Indian Studies...
Building a Foundation for the Future Los Angeles is a city beaming with possibility. As home to UCLA, an expanding and culturally diverse population, and new businesses in...
UCLA Law Leads the Nation in Elite Students, Alumni, Faculty Despite being the youngest major law school in the nation, UCLA School of Law has earned a place among the elite...
Applying Cutting-Edge Science to Everyday Life What if you could predict crime and stop it before it happened? It’s a prospect that understandably raises questions and...
Preparing Tomorrow’s Business Leaders The UCLA Anderson School of Management — a global leader among business and management schools — was the first professional school...
History Rediscovered UCLA alumna Erika Brant never digs up any Chilean mummies without first asking permission with an offering, usually soda or some form of libation. This...
Gaining Ground It’s widely known that women can face different health conditions and need different treatments than men do. But research into these issues has a surprisingly...
Research That Matters Can research inform public policy? By the close of 2014, 36 states had legalized same-sex marriage and twenty percent of the U.S workforce was covered by...
Living Better Longer Aging, as everyone knows, is part of life. For too many people, it brings difficulties such as Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias that tarnish what...
Passion and Compassion for Patients of Any Age From autism in children to Alzheimer’s disease among the elderly, the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital...
Helping Haitians Rebuild Haiti On Jan. 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale devastated the island nation of Haiti. More than 230,000 people...
Equal Opportunity Equals a Better World “In tenth grade, I didn’t even know that I wanted to go to college,” says Elijah Ozuna ’18. But after participating in UCLA’s...
Heart to Heart Keyota Cole was born with a bad heart. The 33-year-old Bakersfield, Calif., native suffers from a serious congenital heart disease called Ebstein’s...
360-Degree Healing Polly Roberts, a professor of world arts and cultures at UCLA, had no history of cancer in her immediate family. But in 2010, just weeks after an annual...
Wise Beyond Our Years Founded in 1949, the UCLA School of Law was the first public law school in Southern California. Since then, its commitment to access and excellence has...
Seeking Solutions. Improving Lives On Oct. 29, 1969, a UCLA team led by distinguished professor of computer science Leonard Kleinrock sent the very first message over the...
Humanistic Storytelling, Social Responsibility At the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT), our landmark vision asks us to re-imagine entertainment and...
Kids Come First At UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, something extraordinary happens every day. You feel it as soon as you enter the lobby and see the Welcome Wall, a...
The Trail Less Traveled From climate emergency to endangered species, it’s one thing to call out urgent environmental problems. It’s another to take steps toward solving...
New Ways to Teach and Learn The Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) is UCLA’s history and its destiny. The university began with the...
BUILDING HEALTHY FUTURES UCLA Fielding is the school of public health at the nation’s #1 public university. At a time when public health challenges confront us daily in so...
Expanding the Traditional Boundaries of Dental Education Since our inception, the UCLA School of Dentistry has focused on achieving and maintaining excellence in four main...
Nursing Reimagined. Nursing Redefined. Everyone knows how great nurses can affect your entire health-care experiences. Nurses deliver life-saving care and offer emotional...
The UCLA Cardiovascular Discovery Fund targets promising research strategies that will help acquire and translate basic science results into clinical applications for patients...
Scholarship Meets the Streets UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is where scholarship meets the streets. Our “Complete Streets” initiative, for instance, works to make...
The Center for Cerebral Palsy — the only interdisciplinary clinic in Southern California that treats patients throughout their lifespans — excels in clinical treatment,...
The Semel Institute is an interdisciplinary research and education institute devoted to the understanding of complex human behavior and the causes and consequences of...
The UCLA Lung Cancer Program’s multidisciplinary team of experts is dedicated to the prevention, detection, treatment and research of lung cancer.
Named after music executive Randy Ostin, who died of cancer in 2013, the fund will support the work of UCLA’s transplant surgeons and researchers.
Support of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology ensures that UCLA archaeologists can continue to conduct groundbreaking research, make monumental discoveries and generate novel...
Where Inquiring Minds Grow The library is as urgent a need for a research university as classrooms or laboratories. The UCLA Library connects students, faculty and researchers...
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA (CNSI) was founded in 2000 as part of the statewide California Institutes for Science and Innovation (CAL-ISI) initiative to keep...
The Healing Touch of Therapy Dogs “I swore I felt my blood pressure lowering on the spot,” says a stroke patient about an encounter with a uniquely wonderful healthcare...
The Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library supports UCLA’s teaching and research programs in East Asian studies by making available Chinese-, Japanese-, and...
Donations to the UCLA Department of Gender Studies support interdisciplinary academic study, research and scholarship on women and gender.
Support of the Department of Art History provides critical programmatic, educational and research assistance to current and future generations of Art History students and...