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From medal winners to being the site of historic firsts, UCLA and the Olympics go way back.

A total of 36 UCLA Bruins have made Olympic rosters for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, including 29 current, incoming or former student-athletes.

This year’s total came from a record-high 61,740 donors, who showed their support for undergraduate scholarships, endowed professorships and graduate student fellowships.

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola returned to UCLA, his alma mater, to run an experimental workshop to test his concept for Live Cinema, a new kind of movie-making that combines the best of filmmaking, television and live theater.

The gift from the renowned art dealer — the largest single gift made by an alumna to the arts in UC history — will add 40 percent more usable space to the current arts facility.

When Luz Corona Gomez picked up her M.D. degree last June from UCLA's medical school, her parents and four sisters proudly celebrated with her. All five daughters in this family of farmworkers have college degrees.

UCLA is sending 28 Olympians to Brazil so far. Incoming freshman Mallory Pugh is the youngest member of the U.S. women's soccer team.

UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams, will lead the design and engineering work needed to build the first presidential library that will be located in a predominantly African-American urban setting.

One honoree, UCLA alumna Kelly Dumke, is already working on the front lines in communities in L.A. County against a well-known and entrenched enemy, early childhood obesity.

The matching gift, which is intended to inspire others to donate, “will benefit our students, faculty and society for generations to come,” said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block.

Wayne Wong spent three years at UCLA studying microbiology and globalization, never suspecting that he would soon be facing issues he studied and discussed in the classroom in Uganda.

Channing Dungey, the first African-American to lead a major broadcast network, BlackRock CEO and chairman Laurence D. Fink and Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak are among those who will address graduates.

A UCLA alumnus and Olympic medal winner, Johnson helped found the Special Olympics and has been a champion of equality for everyone.

The August 2017 expedition to Swan Valley Idaho is presented by UCLA Alumni Travel, which was launched 75 years ago for sojourners who share a passion for learning.

The couple, both UCLA alumni, received the campus’s highest honor for more than six decades of philanthropy and leadership that has benefited myriad organizations. 

The UCLA alumna and faculty member was said by Martha Graham to have the rare ability to “capture the instant of a dance and transform it into a timeless gesture.”

Since 1999, UCLA can count 19 winners of the annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which support exemplary students as they pursue graduate school.

Fink, who received both a bachelor’s degree and M.B.A. from UCLA, is regarded as one of the most influential individuals in business and finance.

An exhibit featuring an impressive exhibit of artifacts, letters and photographs celebrates the 50th anniversary of the tennis legend's graduation from UCLA.

Faculty members Neil Denari, Georgina Huljich, Greg Lynn and Thom Mayne are included in 'Close-up,' which examines the impact of digital technologies on architectural detail and the traditions of tectonic expression.

On Monday, April 11 the UCLA baseball program hosted Veteran Appreciation Day at Jackie Robinson Stadium, with more than 100 veterans from all across Southern California coming out to take part in the day’s activities.

A player for the Bruins in the 1990s, Roberts sat for a conversation with fellow alumnus Eric Karros and spoke with L.A. youth and veterans.

In its first-ever crowdfunding campaign, the UCLA Alumni Association’s push to raise $250,000 for student scholarships and support through UCLA Spark ended up surpassing that goal by generating 839 gifts totaling $447,800.  

Jake Heggie, who earned a B.A. and M.A. in music at UCLA, was a PR writer when the general director of the San Francisco Opera handpicked to compose a score for a libretto by playwright Terrence McNally. Today, he has three operas currently in the pipeline.

UCLA’s all-time leader in career steals, Dave Roberts ’95, was named the first minority manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers in November.