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The 33rd edition of the open-streets event celebrates UCLA’s Centennial with activities that brought campus highlights downtown.

CicLAvia—Heart of L.A. will feature a wide range of UCLA-related activities, with current Bruins and and talented alumni contributing to the festivities.

The “UCLA: Our Stories, Our Impact” exhibit featuring commissioned portraits from activist artists launches on campus today then will tour Los Angeles.

On Sept. 30, 1984, the UCLA Alumni Association gave campus one of its most iconic landmarks, “The Bruin” statue on Bruin Plaza.

From Hong Kong to Kyrgyzstan, New York to Seattle, and dozens of locations across Los Angeles, there were more than 100 sites in honor of UCLA’s Centennial.

This year the Common Book program becomes the Common Experience and all new students are invited to listen to the “There Goes the Neighborhood” podcast.

Scheduled to speak on the mainstage are UCLA alumni George Takei, Ray Garcia and Natasha Case.

Since 1934, counselors at the student-run camp have learned that volunteering at the camp for low-income kids is life-altering experience.

Selected excerpts from the writings and speeches of UCLA alumnus Ralph J. Bunche, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for securing an armistice after the creation of Israel. His birthday is Aug. 7, 1904.

These four pioneering faculty women, famous in their time, are mostly forgotten today.

For 50 years, faculty and students have provided affordable oral health care for tens of thousands in Venice and beyond.

The creation of a thriving women’s athletics program has changed campus life and the lives of thousands of student-athletes and those who look up to them.

Amid cheers and happy tears, the UCLA class of 2019 received inspiration from astronaut Anna Lee Fisher: “You, too, can aim for the stars."

Scenes from the 2019 West Hollywood street party.

Tens of thousands of transfer students have come to UCLA and gone on to become vital contributors to California.

Government officials recognized the pivotal role UCLA has played in shaping California history.

On May 31, 1929, police motorcycles led a colorful motorcade of trucks and student cars west into the future.

The annual advocacy day became “UCLA Day” in Los Angeles as part of the school’s centennial.

City Hall, the Grand Park fountains and the LAX pylons were among the places to be illuminated in UCLA’s signature colors as part of the campus' centennial celebration.

UCLA Moments: That UCLA happened at all is proof of the hubris and ambitions that fueled the growth of Los Angeles.

UCLA’s yearlong centennial celebration launches with “Lighting the Way,” a light-and-sound show on Royce Hall.

The centennial year kicks off with panels, tours, a conversation with three chancellors and a special edition of TEDxUCLA.

The School of Law holds its graduation on Friday, kicking off a month of ceremonies.

Alumni Day, TedxUCLA and a projection show on Royce Hall will kick off UCLA's 100th birthday year on May 18.

Since opening a decade ago, the Robert F. Kennedy UCLA Community School has greatly increased the college-going rate in largely immigrant neighborhoods.