A Nobel Prize. The search for vaccines. Wildfires. And a return to campus after it was shut down for more than a year. These are just a few of the memorable moments from the past 12 months. Here, we look back at UCLA Magazine’s most inspiring, imaginative and indelible visual highlights from 2021.

Spencer Lowell
Andrea Ghez, UCLA’s Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics and director of the Galactic Center Group, won the Nobel Prize in physics last October.
2021: The Year in Pictures
Look back at how UCLA Magazine captured many of the year’s brightest, darkest and most inspiring moments.