UCLA Spotlight




UCLA, Unabashed.

Valuing the Assets.

"If UCLA weren't here, I'm not sure we'd have the intellectual capital we need to be the great city we are today." Eli Broad, notably active philanthropist and civic leader, talks about a pair of enormous public assets — the city of Los Angeles and UCLA.  Continue »
May 8, 2009


Pass It On

"The UCLA Legacy is just an opportunity, a chance open to everyone. It's not passed down from generation to generation. It's awarded to those who work the hardest." Brad Delson, from the rock band Linkin Park, talks about UCLA as a place of infinite possibility.  Continue »
May 8, 2009


The New Movers and Shapers.

"UCLA has made a fine science of public service by identifying leaders, feeding them insights, fine-tuning curricula, and training them to be effective from day one." Karen Bass, speaker of the California Assembly, talks about UCLA’s dedication to transformational change.  Continue »
May 8, 2009


Burying the “Little Man”

"From my perspective, Women's Medicine at UCLA is a blue-chip investment with unlimited growth potential, generating critical products and services to the world's largest under-served market." Julia Gouw, vice chair of East West Bank, talks about medical research at UCLA.  Continue »
Mar 6, 2009


Democracy 2.0

"There's a time when the door is locked, a time when it's just closed, a time when you find it's unlocked and walk through. There's nothing to keep you out. And, guess what: You have a different feeling about everything." Moctesuma Esparza, film producer and CEO of Maya Cinemas, talks about the UCLA experience.   Continue »
Jan 20, 2009


It ought to be a double major.

“If UCLA were simply a world–class university, it would still be exceptional. But it happens to be a world–class research university, and that makes it extraordinary. " Betsy Wood Knapp, founder/CEO of BigPicture Investors LLC, talks about undergraduate education at UCLA.  Continue »
May 8, 2008


It’s Clark Kerr’s fault.

“Forty-seven years ago, the president of the University of California introduced an idealistic, untested and truly immodest plan to build the finest public higher education system in the nation." Sherry Lansing, UC regent and former CEO of Paramount Pictures, talks about the need to nourish the university that benefits so many of us.   Continue »
May 8, 2008


Imagine a great river.

“Lots of institutions dispense existing knowledge. The mission of a research university is something more: to produce new knowledge.” Paul Boyer, UCLA professor emeritus and 1997 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, talks about the challenges of research and his most valued colleagues.   Continue »
May 8, 2008


Welcome to the capital of Now.

“Los Angeles runs on a premium blend of expertise and innovation. Its unique, start–up–centric economy couldn’t work without a highly educated work force. And vice versa.” Richard Ziman, chairman of American Value Partners, talks about the importance of UCLA to California and to his company.   Continue »
May 8, 2008


Ellis Island has moved. Please correct your records.

"So, what role should UCLA have in all this? The role it's always had: to identify, select, nurture and educate successive generations of California's leaders in business, government, the sciences and the arts." Rep. Diane Watson talks about the voyage that begins on a student's first day of classes — and continues lifelong.   Continue »
May 8, 2008


Access or Excellence?

“Among the nation’s major research universities, UCLA has the most students receiving federal financial assistance." Warren Furutani, member of the California State Assembly, talks about the way a publicly owned, world–class research university like UCLA can achieve access and excellence.   Continue »
May 8, 2008