Chancellor Block highlights UCLA’s signature achievements of the 2012-13 academic year. Commencement ceremonies today in Pauley Pavilion and this weekend throughout the campus will bring to a close a monumentally successful academic year for UCLA. In ways both great and…
Chancellor Block announces a new initiative to support U.S. military veterans. Did you know that UCLA research on brain injuries has revolutionized the way soldiers are diagnosed and treated? Or that our business school faculty provides free training to disabled…
Chancellor Block announces a new campus-wide effort to embrace healthy choices in all aspects of our lives. I am delighted to invite you to join me next week for a special event to launch UCLA’s Healthy Campus Initiative. Through this…
Entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen has established a $100 million scholarship fund that will cover tuition and expenses for UCLA medical students. At UCLA, we take great pride in our history of breaking new ground and in providing extraordinary…
The passage of California’s Proposition 30 lends a measure of sorely lacking stability to state funding. By now, you likely have heard that Proposition 30, the governor’s tax measure on the statewide ballot, has been approved by voters. This is…
UCLA’s Veterans Day Ceremony provides an opportunity to thank those who sacrifice so much to defend our freedom. One of UCLA’s outstanding traditions is honoring Bruins who have served in the military. Our annual Veterans Day Ceremony provides a special…
UCLA will become a tobacco-free campus effective April 22, 2013. I am proud to inform you that I have accepted the recommendation of UCLA’s Tobacco-Free Steering Committee that UCLA become a tobacco-free campus effective April 22, 2013. Once the policy…
Chancellor Block welcomes students, staff and faculty to the start of the 2012–13 academic year. Welcome to 2012–13 at UCLA! Even as we celebrate the promise of a new academic year, and the opportunities that lie ahead, this is shaping…
Chancellor Block recognizes the sesquicentennial of the Morrill Act, a major milestone in expanding and democratizing American public higher education. One hundred fifty years ago today, on July 2, 1862, in the cruel crucible of the Civil War, President Abraham…