University Of California At Los Angeles

UCLA
Currency	Fiat Lux (let there be light)
Original Name	University of California, Los Angeles
Information
Foundation	1919
Type	Public University
Staffing	2.299 billion from
Location
City	Los Angeles , California
Country	United States
Direction
Chancellor	Gene D. Block
Key figures
Students	38,476
Undergraduates	26,928
Postgraduates	11,548
Miscellaneous
Affiliates	AAU Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Pacific Ten Conference University of California
Website	www.ucla.edu/
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The University of California at Los Angeles (commonly known by the acronym UCLA, is the largest campus of the University of California for enrollment, but by a smaller area.

Geography

The Royce Hall , building inaugurated in 1926

It is located in Los Angeles in California between the neighborhoods of Bel Air , Venice and the city of Santa Monica.

When UCLA opened its new campus in 1929, it was only four buildings. Today, 163 buildings are spread over a campus of 1, 7 km ² north of the shopping area of Westwood and just south of Sunset Boulevard.

The first premises were built on plans of the local firm Allison & Allison, in a Romanesque Revival style that was repeated in other buildings until the 1950s. Then, the architect Welton Becket oversaw the expansion of the campus for the next twenty years. This is especially to him that we owe one of the largest buildings on campus, the UCLA Medical Center .

The UCLA campus is decorated with sculptures, fountains and a sophisticated architecture.

History

The library, Spanish-style

The campus was founded in 1919 at Vermont Avenue and in 1929 he was transferred to Westwood Village. In 1984 , he served as the Olympic Village for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Broad Art Center was inaugurated in 2006, designed by American architect Richard Meier , it houses the department of visual arts and was financed by the entrepreneur philanthropist Eli Broad .

The Daily Bruin is the university newspaper.

Population

UCLA currently has 26,139 students and 11,179 undergraduates postgraduates. These numbers continue to increase: thus, in September 2006, UCLA welcomed 4852 new students .

Research

With 22 research departments, more than 5000 scientific projects funded for a total budget of about 630 million, UCLA is one of the largest research institutions worldwide.

Fame

According to U.S. News.1, UCLA is ranked ^2nd (tied with the University of Virginia) largest U.S. public universities and 25 ^{th among} U.S. universities.

In 2008, UCLA is ranked ^the 10th largest in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in science

Among its departments and most famous schools include:

• Anderson School of Management ( MBA ranked ^10th by U.S. News 2007)
• Geffen School of Medicine (Ranked ^11th by U.S. News 2007)
• Law School (right)
• Samueli School of Engineering

The following winners of Nobel Prizes are among the alumni and a professor on this campus:

• • Elinor Ostrom (economics, 2009)
  • Paul D. Boyer (Chemistry, 1997)
  • Donald Cram (chemistry, 1987)
  • Julian Schwinger (physics, 1965)
  • Willard Libby (chemistry, 1960)
  • Ralph Bunche (Peace, 1950)
  • Louis Ignarro (Professor Pharmacology)

• 3 Pulitzer Prizes
• A Pritzker Prize ( Thom Mayne )
• 15 Oscars film
• 10 National Medal of Science
• 3 Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 42 Guggenheim Fellowship

Notable alumni

Sport

UCLA Football

UCLA is also famous for its sports teams. In basketball, the UCLA Bruins have won 11 times and the NCAA college championship and trained NBA players like Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ), Bill Walton , Reggie Miller , Baron Davis , Trevor Ariza , Jordan Farmar , Russell Westbrook , Kevin Love , ....

Karch Kiraly , considered the best player in volleyball and beach volleyball of all time, is a former Bruin.

Traditions

The life of a student (e) Bruin is punctuated by many traditions, the most famous are perhaps:

• Le Cri de Minuit every night (midnight) of the exam week, the tradition is that students begin to shout as loud as possible for one minute. This break is supposed to help release some stress accumulated during the revisions. Students who reside on campus are not allowed to participate in this event.
• Race underwear Wednesday evening of the exam week, students are encouraged to wear their most beautiful - or ugly, it depends - underwear , decorated or not some fancy, for running through the streets and on campus , always with the goal of evacuating the stress of exams. The course is always the same but has been changed twice since the first race in the fall of 2001. The event is so popular that it is not uncommon to see television cameras do a story, especially as the large number of participants requires the presence of police in the university to ensure the smooth running of the race and avoid any dangerous activity or vandalism.
• Summer camp at Lake Arrowhead: Each year the university organizes a camp in Lake Arrowhead , located at half past two in the east of Los Angeles. There, each family (one parent must be an alumnus of UCLA) may register and will normally be at camp every year the same week of the month (from late June until late August).
• Activities: Swimming, skiing, tennis, basketball, baseball, art (pottery, painting ...), mini-golf, archery, fishing, tour around the lake, children's playground, evening entertainment , competitions, film and theater.

Inclusion of the campus in 2005

Total enrollment: 37,221 students

Undergraduate enrollment: 24,811

• Women: 14,018
• Males: 10,793

See also

Notes

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