University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles, or UCLA, is a university in Los Angeles, California. It was started in 1919. It is often listed among America's best universities.

Janss Steps, UCLA, Los Angeles.

The school was originally a college for teachers, but became a university in 1919, and has been called UCLA since 1927. It was originally in Hollywood, but is now in Westwood. In 1950, it gained independence from the University of California, Berkeley. During the 1960s and 1970s, there were many student protests.^[1]

The school has buildings designed by several famous architects, numerous gardens, fountains, and museums. It has academic programs in many fields, including a very famous Film School and medical programs in association with several hospitals.

UCLA has many good sports teams on the Division I level. Their teams, which play in the Pacific-12 Conference, are called the Bruins, or small bears. These teams have won 103 championships. The basketball team plays in Pauley Pavilion and has won 11 championships with players such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton and Gail Goodrich. The football team plays in the Rose Bowl stadium, site of the bowl game of the same name. UCLA also has good volleyball and water polo teams, and has sent hundreds of athletes to the Olympic Games. UCLA has a strong rivalry with USC, the other university in Los Angeles, in all sports. There are lesser rivalries with Stanford, Cal and Notre Dame.

Notable Alumni

Mayim Bialik actress and neuroscientist
Nicolas Sadirac (1986), founder and current head of the École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies^[2]

University Of California, Los Angeles Media

The Los Angeles branch of the California State Normal School, 1881.
Reginaldo Francisco del Valle was instrumental in the creation of the Los Angeles California State Normal School, predecessor to UCLA.
Southern Branch of the University of California's Vermont Campus, 1922.
Postcard c. 1930 to 1945 of the new Westwood campus.
Royce Hall, one of the original four buildings, inspired by Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, Italy
Vaulted arches of Royce Hall.
The front lawn of UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall, as seen during the orientation scene in Legally Blonde.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, near the main entrance to the campus.
South entrance to the School of Law.