campus history

In just 100 years, UCLA has grown into a world-class center of learning, research and health care.

Things came full circle for Arthur Ashe, whose first and final victories took place in the very same tournament.

Walter Thompson-Hernández applies lessons from being a lifelong Bruin to his help make sure his multimedia stories illuminate subcultures and don’t exploit them.

Powell Library was once relocated for five years to a futuristic structure named Temporary Powell, known as “Towell.”

A 1993 hunger strike led to the creation of UCLA’s César E. Chávez Center.

UCLA’s North Campus is home to a number of works by renowned sculptor Robert Graham.

Take a look at some of the inscriptions on campus that you may have missed before.

In a new book, "Coach Wooden and Me," Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retells the story of his relationship with UCLA Coach John Wooden that lasted from the time he left New York City at age 18 until 2010 when he sat by his coach's bedside during his 99-year-old mentor's last days.

Two days after delivering his annual address on the State of the City at City Hall, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti returned to the UCLA Lab School where he had “the most important educational experience of my life.”

A monument to Jackie Robinson, one of UCLA’s most celebrated alumni and the first player to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, was unveiled at a campus ceremony Saturday.

Screening and discussion of 'Prejudice and Pride,' from the acclaimed PBS series 'Latin Americans,' on March 3, 7:30 p.m. at the UCLA Fowler Museum.

Music in all its forms has been a big part of UCLA's first century. Acclaimed alumni include John Williams, Jim Morrison, Sara Bareilles and Kamasi Washington.

Make no mistake: Special Olympics athletes came to UCLA to win, but they left with so much more.

In the 47 years since Johnson helped found the games, the most important change has been in attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.

For Pauley’s 50th birthday, UCLA looks back on how the arena hosted history.

At an event held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA, more than 100 youngsters from Tom Bradley Elementary School in Los Angeles listened to a rebroadcast of that same speech.

On Tuesday, April 28, the campus community, together with 2,000 K-12 students, will gather for events to commemorate the day 50 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited UCLA and addressed nearly 5,000.

Find out how campus buildings got their names.

A hidden message left by a UCLA architect in 2011 was recently uncovered in Boelter Hall, where sharp-eyed passersby can spot a coded note in the pattern of floor tiles.

Think you know about UCLA athletics history? Here’s your chance to prove it.

As Ackerman Student Union celebrates its 50th birthday, we look at how it was a harbinger of big changes and a chronicle of student and societal tastes.

UCLA’s Inverted Fountain was installed March 18, 1968 — and led to several Bruin traditions.

In a step toward justice, commencement came for Japanese American former students who had been forced to leave UCLA and enter internment camps during World War II.

The famous baseball player is known as “the greatest UCLA athlete of all time.”

John Wooden and Valorie Kondos Field — two extraordinary UCLA coaches — discuss life, love, faith and, of course, coaching.