University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a accessible analysis university in the Westwood commune of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Annex of the University of California in 1919, authoritative it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus arrangement afterwards the aboriginal University of California campus in Berkeley (1873). It offers 337 undergraduate and alum amount programs in a advanced ambit of disciplines.UCLA has an almost acceptance of 30,000 undergraduate and 12,000 alum students, and has 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including alteration applicants, the a lot of applicants for any American university.

The Times Higher Apprenticeship Apple University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranks UCLA 16th in the apple for academics and 13th in the apple for reputation. In 2015/16, UCLA is ranked 12th in the apple (10th in Arctic America) by the Academic Baronial of Apple Universities (ARWU) and 27th in the 2015/16 QS Apple University Rankings.In 2015, the Centermost for Apple University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 15th in the apple based on superior of education, alumni employment, superior of faculty, publications, influence, citations, ample impact, and patents.

The university is organized into 5 undergraduate colleges, seven able schools, and four able bloom science schools. The undergraduate colleges are the College of Letters and Science; Henry Samueli Academy of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS); Academy of the Arts and Architecture; Academy of Theater, Film and Television; and Academy of Nursing. Thirteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, and three Turing Accolade winners accept been faculty, researchers, or alumni. Among the accepted adroitness members, 55 accept been adopted to the Civic Academy of Sciences, 28 to the Civic Academy of Engineering, 39 to the Institute of Medicine, and 124 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The university was adopted to the Association of American Universities in 1974.

UCLA student-athletes attempt as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference. The Bruins accept won 126 civic championships, including 113 NCAA aggregation championships, added than any added university UCLA student-athletes, coaches and agents accept won 251 Olympic medals: 126 gold, 65 argent and 60 bronze. The Bruins accept competed in every Olympics back 1920 with one barring (1924), and accept won a gold badge in every Olympics that the United States has alternate in back 1932.

History
In March 1881, afterwards abundant lobbying by Los Angeles residents, the California Accompaniment Assembly accustomed the conception of a southern annex of the California Accompaniment Normal Academy (which afterwards became San Jose Accompaniment University) in city Los Angeles to alternation agents for the growing citizenry of Southern California. The Accompaniment Normal Academy at Los Angeles opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the website of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Accessible Library system. The new ability included an elementary academy breadth teachers-in-training could convenance their teaching address on children. That elementary academy is accompanying to the present day version, UCLA Lab School. In 1887, the academy became accepted as the Los Angeles Accompaniment Normal School.


The Los Angeles annex of California Accompaniment Normal School, 1881.
In 1914, the academy confused to a new campus on Vermont Avenue (now the website of Los Angeles City College) in East Hollywood. In 1917, UC Agent Edward Augustus Dickson, the alone agent apery the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore, Director of the Normal School, began alive calm to antechamber the Accompaniment Assembly to accredit the academy to become the additional University of California campus, afterwards UC Berkeley. They met attrition from UC Berkeley alumni, Northern California associates of the accompaniment legislature, and Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919, who were all agilely adjoin to the abstraction of a southern campus. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, did not allotment Wheeler's objections. On May 23, 1919, the Southern Californians' efforts were adored if Governor William D. Stephens active Assembly Bill 626 into law, which adapted the Los Angeles Normal Academy into the Southern Annex of the University of California. The aforementioned legislation added its accepted undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science.[30] The Southern Annex campus opened on September 15 of that year, alms two-year undergraduate programs to 250 Letters and Science acceptance and 1,250 acceptance in the Agents College, beneath Moore's connected direction.


Southern Annex of the University of California's Vermont Campus, 1922.
Under University of California President William Wallace Campbell, acceptance at the Southern Annex broadcast so rapidly that by the mid-1920s the academy was outgrowing the 25 acre Vermont Avenue location. The Regents conducted a seek for a new breadth and appear their alternative of the alleged "Beverly Site"—just west of Beverly Hills—on March 21, 1925 binding out the across-the-board hills of the still-empty Palos Verdes Peninsula. Afterwards the able-bodied teams entered the Pacific Bank arrangement in 1926, the Southern Annex apprentice board adopted the appellation "Bruins", a name offered by the apprentice board at UC Berkeley. In 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Annex the University of California at Los Angeles (the chat "at" was clearly replaced by a breach in 1958, in band with added UC campuses). In the aforementioned year, the accompaniment bankrupt arena in Westwood on acreage awash for $1 million, beneath than one-third its value, by absolute acreage developers Edwin and Harold Janss, for whom the Janss Steps are named.
The aboriginal four barrio were the College Library (now Powell Library), Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Architecture (now the Abstract Building), and the Chemistry Architecture (now Haines Hall), arrayed about a quadrangular courtyard on the 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus. The aboriginal undergraduate classes on the new campus were captivated in 1929 with 5,500 students. Afterwards added lobbying by alumni, faculty, administering and association leaders, UCLA was acceptable to accolade the master's amount in 1933, and the doctorate in 1936, adjoin connected attrition from UC Berkeley.

A timeline of the history can be begin on its website, as able-bodied as a appear book.
During its aboriginal 32 years, UCLA was advised as an off-site administration of UC. As such, its authoritative administrator was alleged a "provost," and appear to the capital campus in Berkeley. In 1951, UCLA was formally animated to co-equal cachet with UC Berkeley, and its authoritative administrator Raymond B. Allen was the aboriginal arch controlling to be accepted the appellation of chancellor. The arrangement of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Adjudicator in 1960 helped to atom an era of amazing advance of accessories and adroitness honors. By the end of the decade, UCLA had accomplished acumen in a advanced ambit of subjects. This era aswell anchored UCLA's position as a able university in its own appropriate and not artlessly a annex of the UC system. This change is exemplified by an adventure involving Adjudicator Murphy, which was declared by him:
I best up the blast and alleged in from somewhere, and the buzz abettor said, "University of California." And I said, "Is this Berkeley?" She said, "No." I said, "Well, who accept I gotten to?" "UCLA." I said, "Why didn't you say UCLA?" "Oh," she said, "we're instructed to say University of California." So the next morning I went to the appointment and wrote a memo; I said, "Will you amuse acquaint the operators, as of apex today, if they acknowledgment the buzz to say, 'UCLA.'" And they said, "You apperceive they will not like it at Berkeley." And I said, "Well, let's just see. There are a few things maybe we can do about actuality afterwards accepting their permission."

Campus
The new UCLA campus in 1929 had four buildings: Royce Hall and Haines Hall on the north, and Powell Library and Kinsey Hall (now the Abstract Building) on the south. The Janss Steps were the aboriginal 87-step access to the university that advance anon to the cloister of these four buildings. Today, the campus includes 163 barrio beyond 419 acreage (1.7 km²) in the western allotment of Los Angeles, arctic of the Westwood arcade commune and just south of Sunset Boulevard. In acceding of acreage, it is the additional aboriginal of the ten UC campuses. The campus is abutting but not adjoining to the 405 San Diego Freeway.

The campus is amid in the residential breadth of Westwood and belted by Bel-Air to the north, Beverly Hills to the east, and Brentwood to the west. The campus is artlessly disconnected into Arctic Campus and South Campus, which are both on the eastern bisected of the university's land. Arctic Campus is the aboriginal campus core; its barrio are added acceptable in actualization and clad in alien Italian brick. Arctic Campus is home to the arts, humanities, amusing sciences, law, and business programs and is centered about ficus and sycamore-lined Dickson Court, aswell accepted as the "Sunken Garden". South Campus is home to the concrete sciences, activity sciences, engineering, algebraic sciences, health-related fields, and the UCLA Medical Center. The campus includes carve gardens, fountains, museums, and a mix of architectural styles.


Janss Steps, in foreground of Royce Hall
Ackerman Union, the John Wooden Center, the Arthur Ashe Bloom and Wellness Center, the Apprentice Activities Center, Kerckhoff Hall, the J.D. Morgan Center, the James West Alumni Center, and Pauley Pavilion angle at the centermost of the campus, adjoining Wilson Plaza. The campus is bisected by Bruin Walk, a heavily catholic alleyway from the residential acropolis to the capital campus. At the circle of Bruin Walk and Westwood Plaza is Bruin Plaza, featuring an alfresco assuming arts date and a brownish bronze of the Bruin bear.

Architecture
The aboriginal barrio were advised by the bounded close Allison & Allison. The Romanesque Revival actualization of these aboriginal four structures remained the absolute architecture actualization until the 1950s, if artist Welton Becket was assassin to administer the amplification of the campus over the next two decades. Becket abundantly automated its accepted appearance, abacus several rows of minimalist, slab–shaped brick barrio to the southern half, the better of these getting the UCLA Medical Center. Architects such as A. Quincy Jones, William Pereira and Paul Williams advised abounding consecutive structures on the campus during the mid-20th century. Added contempo additions cover barrio advised by architects I.M. Pei, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Richard Meier, Cesar Pelli, and Rafael Vinoly. To board UCLA's rapidly growing apprentice population, assorted architecture and advance projects are in progress, including expansions of the activity sciences and engineering analysis complexes. This connected architecture gives UCLA the appellation "Under Architecture Like Always".


Royce Hall, one of the aboriginal four buildings, aggressive by Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio
One notable architecture on campus is alleged afterwards African-American alum Ralph Bunche, who accustomed the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an ceasefire acceding amid the Jews and Arabs in Israel. The access of Bunche Hall appearance a apprehension of him overlooking the Franklin D. Murphy Carve Garden. He was the aboriginal alone of non-European accomplishments and the aboriginal UCLA alum to be accustomed with the Prize.

The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is amid a mile arctic of campus, in the association of Bel Air. The garden was advised by mural artist Nagao Sakurai of Tokyo and garden artist Kazuo Nakamura of Kyoto in 1959. Afterwards the garden was damaged by abundant rains in 1969, UCLA Professor of Art and Campus Artist Koichi Kawana took on the assignment of its reconstruction.
Transportation and parking.

The campus maintains 24,000 parking spaces and operates an award-winning acceptable busline program. Elements of the acceptable busline affairs cover vanpools, a campus shuttle arrangement alleged BruinBus, discounted carpool permits, and subsidized alteration passes. One of the canyon programs includes BruinGo!, which allows acceptance and agents associates to acquirement discounted one-way or annual passes to ride Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus and the Culver CityBus. This canyon affairs allows any accepted apprentice to ride the Big Blue Bus for 50 cents (each way). Additionally, UCLA has a grocery shuttle that transports acceptance amid the dorms and Westwood, on weekends in adjustment to facilitate students' arcade needs.

Healthcare
UCLA Medical Plaza, abreast the capital access to the campus
The David Geffen Academy of Medicine, Academy of Nursing, Academy of Dentistry and Fielding Academy of Accessible Bloom aggregate the able schools of bloom science.

The UCLA Bloom Arrangement operates the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a hospital in Santa Monica and twelve primary affliction clinics throughout Los Angeles County. In addition, the UCLA David Geffen Academy of Medicine uses two Los Angeles County accessible hospitals as teaching hospitals—Harbor-UCLA Medical Centermost and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center—as able-bodied as the better clandestine nonprofit hospital on the west coast, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Centermost is aswell a above teaching and training website for the university. The UCLA Medical Centermost fabricated history in 1981 if Assistant Professor Michael Gottlieb aboriginal diagnosed AIDS. UCLA medical advisers aswell pioneered the use of positron discharge tomography (PET) scanning to abstraction academician function. Professor of Pharmacology Louis Ignarro was one of the recipients of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Analysis or Medicine for advertent the signaling avalanche of nitric oxide, one of the a lot of important molecules in cardiopulmonary physiology.

The U.S. News & Apple Report Best Hospitals baronial for 2015-2016 ranks UCLA Medical Centermost 3rd in the United States and "Best in the West". UCLA Medical Centermost was ranked aural the top 20 in the United States for 15 out of 16 medical specialty areas examined.