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The gift will go toward the Terasaki Center’s program endowment allowing for new initiatives that focus on community engagement.

Revlon CEO Lorenzo Delpani, chairman Ronald O. Perelman and global brand ambassador Halle Berry announced the gift at an event honoring Slamon, a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

For the 2015–16 academic year, 20 Big Bang Theory scholars will be selected to receive financial assistance. Each year in perpetuity, five additional scholars will be chosen.

The 20th annual event benefited UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The gift will support priorities such as student financial aid and fellowships, faculty and research funding, and program innovations, and provide seed funding for a new building with technology-enhanced classrooms.

A generous gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro, all of whom are UCLA alumni, funded the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences.

The strength and conditioning facility inside the football team’s new training complex will be named in honor of the former Bruin quarterback and Pro Football Hall of Famer.

UCLA professors Donald and Sherie Morrison provided the gift to establish the Morrison Family Center for Marketing Studies and Data Analytics.

The endowed chair commemorates Luskin’s longstanding relationship with his friend and attorney, Robert Henigson.

The center, to be led by Michael Fanselow, will focus on brain health and developing novel methods to get the unhealthy brain back to the healthy state.

The donor says he hopes the gift, which will benefit students, faculty and the community, will honor his family’s legacy of giving — one that started with his late grandmother.

Pledge from Sound Body Sound Mind funds new partnership to combat childhood obesity; initiative will provide fitness equipment to L.A. schools.

Funding from the Hirshberg Foundation has elevated the UCLA center to one of the nation’s premier comprehensive programs for pancreatic cancer and diseases.

Donation from philanthropist Elaine Krown Klein will support a distinguished faculty member as well as live performance, research, conferences and other schoolwide initiatives.

Jim and Carol Collins, who met while they were UCLA students in the 1940s, will have part of the training facility named in their honor.

The facility's recruiting lounge and terrace will be named in honor of Marilyn Silva-Lund and David Lund.

The gift will support students, professors and researchers working with the rare primary-source materials in UCLA Library Special Collections.

A gift by television creator and executive producer Darren Star has made possible the renovation of a 54-seat screening room at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

The gift will provide scholarship support to students in UCLA Teacher Education Program and help recruit the best and brightest students to pursue advanced degrees in education.

Padmanabhan’s support of the lab, which will be housed in the still-under-construction Engineering VI building, will further cement UCLA as a premiere research institution.

A 28-foot-long elevator from an Airbus A330 was donated to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. The part, which is used for flight control on the aircraft’s tail, is valued at $750,000.

As a tribute to the couple, the UCLA Center for Health Sciences Plaza was renamed the Irma and Norman Switzer Plaza.

The center is the first of its kind, dedicated solely to advancing the power of entertainment and performing arts to inspire social change.

The institute will provide new knowledge and technology to assess and manage risks in order to save lives, protect the environment and protect property from large-scale threats.

Campus officials dedicated the Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, a new landmark research and patient-care facility at UCLA.