campus history

Renovations include a new roof, landscaping, new paint, and two new accessible restrooms. The club will be open for all services starting Sept. 22.

The L.A. Rebellion film movement, born at UCLA in 1969, enabled minority student directors to tell the world about their communities.

The first structure on the Westwood campus, the Arroyo Bridge, was vital to the building of Royce Hall and Powell Library. It disappeared in 1947.

The former Bruin integrated baseball and changed history on April 15, 1947, when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Recordings from the educator and activist’s speeches are part of Ronald K. Brown and his company’s newest dance work.

Lawrence Clark Powell, for whom UCLA’s iconic library is named, was the university’s chief librarian and a prolific writer.

Student artist Maia Hadaway created a cafeteria-like scene of generations of important Black Bruins and civil rights leaders for the center.

On the occasion of his 90th birthday, the former leader of UCLA looks back on how he helped shape campus and offers students advice for the future.

A Disney Imagineer created a mural — with the timepiece at its center — designed to cheer young patients.

Architect Harry Cobb designed "the village" to enhance university life.

Lewis’ support helped fuel the rebuilding of campus following the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Gidra, which began at UCLA’s Campbell Hall in 1969, helped fill a media void by providing detailed historical context as well as personal narratives.

As part of its 25th anniversary, the UCLA LGBTQ Campus Resource Center created a timeline of important events in the campus’s queer and trans history.

Do you think you know UCLA? It’s time to put your knowledge to the test!

Do you think you know UCLA? It’s time to put your knowledge to the test!

UCLA’s center is the largest of its kind in the country. But at the start of 1969, there were no plans for its formation.

The 1936 UCLA graduate authored 35 scientific papers, held eight patents and was the first Black person to work in the Eastman Kodak engineering labs.

What do you know about the No. 1 public university’s relationship to the highest office in the land? It’s time for a UCLA trivia test!

The room was originally part of a 1780s English manor designed by architect Robert Adam.

Johnson, who won a gold medal in the decathlon in 1960 and later helped found the Special Olympics, died today at his home in Sherman Oaks.

Do you think you know UCLA? It’s time to put your knowledge to the test!

In 1982, UCLA’s football team left the Coliseum for its own stadium at the Rose Bowl.

Faculty, staff, students and administrators share how they persevered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After selling doughnuts at a corner shop in Westwood Village for more than five decades, Stan Berman calls it  quits.

A crisis thrust the UCLA community into new ways of thinking and acting. Despite great challenges, Bruins have remained brilliant and resilient.