Centennial Campaign for UCLA

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.

If 2,200 Bruins donated to any of UCLA’s funds prior to the UCLA-USC football game Nov. 22, alumni Karren Ganstwig and Howard Welinsky pledged to give an additional $100,000 to UCLA.

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.

The gift by Bob and Marion Wilson is the largest scholarship donation the dental school has ever received and will be used to support students dedicated to academic excellence and public service.

A $2.5 million gift from Tadashi Yanai will help transform UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures into one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Japanese literature and culture.

The Foundation also announced new board members Chris Adams, Susan Baumgarten, Jeffrey Brown and Russell Hagey and new terms for returning members Yolanda Gorman and chair emeritus Peter Taylor.

The generous gift establishes an undergraduate scholarship, graduate fellowship and distinguished lecture in Israel studies.

Jacqueline and Oscar Stafsudd Jr. earned four UCLA degrees between them, and Oscar has been a faculty member for 47 years. The couple say their gift is "a way of expressing our gratitude."

Chair will support an engineering professor who is an accomplished researcher, teacher and mentor to future engineering leaders.

Tisch's funding will help UCLA create the world’s most sophisticated research, prevention and treatment program for athletics-related brain injuries.

A new facility located near Pauley Pavilion would provide both the men's and women's basketball teams with practice gyms, lockers rooms and other amenities.

The funds will be used to build a garden pavilion that will house a welcome center and classroom. The construction is part of a series of renovations to increase the garden's visibility, upgrade its infrastructure and improve its accessibility.

Watch the 3-D light and sound show honoring UCLA's past and future and that wowed crowds who watched it projected onto Royce Hall.

After UCLA's traditional Spring Sing on Friday night, students gathered outside Royce Hall to be amazed by a show projected on the historic building's face.

Light and sound show projected on exterior of Royce Hall wows Saturday night crowd. Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, alums and students honored.

Taylor Bazley, a UCLA senior, grew up in a poor neighborhood in San Diego. So when he was admitted to UCLA, Bazley knew it would change his life.

Angela Sanchez wasn’t sure if she could finish high school seven years ago when she and her father were homeless. Today, the graduate student is positioning herself for a successful career in higher education administration.

A scholarship liberated Mary Kavonian from the need to work or worry about finances. So she sought out opportunities to do community outreach that eventually led her to a career choice.

Growing up in South Los Angeles, Jeremy Edwards was frequently on the move with his hard-working single mom. In June, he will become the first in his immediate family to earn a bachelor’s degree.

The campaign seeks to secure the institution's future as a center for higher education where innovative teaching, groundbreaking research and dedicated service advance the public good.

The Centennial Campaign for UCLA launches with campus festivities May 16-17. The $4.2 billion fundraising effort conclude with UCLA’s 100th anniversary in 2019.