UCLA's year-long Centennial Celebration features events
that are family friendly, open to all, mostly free and
grounded in community. Scroll down to review the list of
fall marquee events and RSVP to secure your place. Also
read about three exciting new initiatives — a fourth
will launch in April — designed to deepen
UCLA’s commitment to advancing knowledge, creating
opportunity through education, and serving communities in
Los Angeles and beyond.
UCLA Volunteer Day is only a few days away, but
there’s still time to pitch in at one of 90
locations in Los Angeles County in honor of UCLA’s
centennial. Now in its 11th year, Volunteer Day is one of
the nation’s largest community participation events
and it brings new college students, UCLA employees and
alumni together in a way that ignites a passion for
service and inspires year-round volunteerism.
UCLA COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: EXPLORING
TODAY’S BIG IDEAS
Sunday, Sept. 29
10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
The Row in DTLA, Suite #100
777 Alameda St.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
UCLA Community Classroom: Exploring Today’s Big
Ideas is a part of UCLA’s “Knowledge
Solves” campaign, which highlights programs and
research that serve the greater good. This one-day,
multi-dimensional pop-up gives everyone an opportunity to
join in on the creation of an interactive community mural,
view art installations and experience a human library
where volunteers act as “open books.” In
addition, UCLA professors will also host mainstage talks
with three prominent UCLA alumni.
George Takei '60, M.A. '64, famed actor and
activist, on culture
Natasha Case M.A. '08, founder and CEO of the Coolhaus
ice cream brand, on entrepreneurship
Ray Garcia '00, award-winning chef of Broken Spanish
and B.S. Taqueria, on sustainability
10 Questions: Centennial Edition, presented by UCLA
Arts, gives community members a unique opportunity to
experience the conversations that drive innovation at the
university. A hybrid academic class and public event, the
10 Questions series convenes great thinkers and doers to
discuss essential topics of our time from multiple
disciplinary viewpoints.
UCLA: Our Stories, Our Impact is a multimedia
traveling exhibit that showcases the role of UCLA and its
alumni in advancing equity and equality in America.
Anchored by the stories of unsung Bruins, both past and
present, who have advanced and shaped social justice
movements, this initiative is a collaboration led by the
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the
Labor Center and the Chancellor’s Advisory Council
on Immigration Policy and in partnership with the four
ethnic studies centers within the UCLA Institute of
American Cultures.
CicLAvia: Heart of LA Celebrating 100
Years of UCLA
CicLAvia: Heart of LA, welcomes Angelenos to bike,
walk, socialize and explore the neighborhoods of Westlake,
Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Boyle Heights and downtown LA,
where UCLA began as a teachers’ college. Take time
out to celebrate UCLA’s Centennial with
family-friendly interactive activities in the hub of the
Civic Center and purchase limited edition commemorative
UCLA100 + CicLAvia merchandise.
Use UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences’
Augmented Reality Sandbox to create and explore
landscapes by molding and shifting mountains, lakes
and valleys, and see the Electron Losses and Fields
Investigation (ELFIN) satellite from
NASA’s ICESat-2 mission.
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and UCLA Fielding
School of Public Health presents The Science of
CicLAvia, tips and tricks to make our
communities lighter and brighter.
Learn how wind affects the surface of planets at the
Exploring Your Universe pop-up run by students
from the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences.
Hear UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students
re-envision UCLA’s most historic building in
“Facts Beyond Images” Royce Hall
Studio.
And even more...
Lawn games: Cornhole, giant Connect Four and
giant Jenga presented by University Credit Union.
Learn more about attending UCLA. Visit the UCLA
Undergraduate Admission booth.
Tag #UCLA100 #CicLAvia when you pose with the classic
UCLA letters at the UCLA letters photo op.
Visit the UCLA: Our Stories, Our Impact Exhibit
to hear the stories of UCLA alumni advancing equity
and equality in America.
Enjoy a preview of the free class series 10
Questions: Centennial Edition, which asks
questions such as “What is Justice,”
“What is Truth” and “What is
Love.”
Internet 50 celebrates UCLA as the birthplace of
the Internet. Few cultural revolutions can trace their
origins as precisely as the one that was born on October
29, 1969, in 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA. The ripple effects
of that moment are felt daily five decades later by nearly
every human on the planet, and will likely be felt for
centuries to come.
Hosted by the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, leading
technologists, visionaries and influences —
including Eric Schmidt, Mark Cuban, Henry Samueli, Jameela
Jamil, Vint Cerf, Patrisse Cullors, Jamie Dimon, Ashton
Kutcher, Peter Thiel and many more — will discuss
the genesis, current state and future aspirations of our
connected world.
Exploring Your Universe – A Free
Science Festival for All Ages
Sunday, Nov. 3
Noon – 5 p.m. | Booths,
speakers
5 – 8 p.m. | Night time activities
Exploring Your Universe, now in its 11th year, is
one of the country’s largest and most popular
science festivals, providing fun, hands-on experiments and
presentations to thousands of curious minds and young
future scientists alike. As a UCLA Centennial marquee
event, EYU plans to expand all events this year with more
booths, improved exhibits, exciting speakers –
including renowned UCLA faculty members – and new
activities.
Over 50 interactive science booths from noon to 5 p.m.
30-minute science talks throughout the day
Planetarium shows from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Telescope viewings after 5 p.m.
Award presentation to a special guest. Previous
awardees include astronaut Anna Lee Fisher ’71,
M.D. ’76, M.S. ’87, and actress and New
York Times best-selling author Danica McKellar
’98.
Planetarium tickets, event maps, and passports will be
available at the Info Booth from noon to 5 p.m. Passports
completed by finding the special booths before 5 p.m. can
be exchanged for a prize!
Bruin Bash before the UCLA at USC rivalry game is a
not-to-be-missed tradition. Gather under the Bruin Bash
tent on game day as the Bruins fight to retain possession
of the Victory Bell with a win over the Trojans.
You’ll pile your plates high at the buffet line and
enjoy an open bar. Wear your favorite UCLA gear and hang
out with True Blue fans who share your love of the game.
Initiatives
OPENUCLA
Launching: Fall 2019
OpenUCLA highlights efforts to
provide open and equitable access to the
materials and scholarship produced at
UCLA. The UCLA Library — an
outspoken, proactive national advocate
for open access — will continue as
a leader in the effort to change the
foundation of how knowledge and
scholarship is created, published,
shared and collected. This project will
include digitizing new materials and
collections, providing access to unique
and rare materials, a dramatic expansion
of the Library’s open
repositories, a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to
create entries for publicly accessible
collections, and the launch of special
partnerships with the Los Angeles Public
Library. The relationships and practices
built during the year will strengthen,
the number of open access publications
and materials will continue to expand,
and everyone, from early learners to
expert scholars, will turn to UCLA when
pursuing knowledge and seeking
inspiration.
UCLA DATA FOR DEMOCRACY IN LA
Launching: Fall 2019
UCLA Data for Democracy in LA,
led by Center X and the Institute for
Democracy, Education, and Access at
Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies, enlists our
university’s leading research
centers as partners with K-12 teachers
to enrich learning and strengthen civic
discourse. Throughout the school year,
we will engage students across the city
with data from UCLA research centers
highlighting issues of inequality and
opportunity in Los Angeles. We
will provide teachers with ideas for
helping students with data, conduct
related investigations, and participate
in evidence-based discussions about how
to expand opportunity and deepen
democracy in Los Angeles. These
partnerships will produce new curricula,
civic partnerships, and opportunities
for addressing inequality and improving
civic discourse in Los Angeles. The
initiative will culminate with a
Centennial Youth Summit on campus with
over 100 classrooms from across Los
Angeles.
News Around Campus
‘Common experience’ for new
Bruins will be learning about
gentrification in L.A.
After completing its first decade,
UCLA’s Common Book has expanded
this year to become the Common
Experience. As with past years, the UCLA
community comes together around a single
text that provides the genesis for
discussion, classes, experiences and
more. In honor of the Centennial, this
year’s selection – the
podcast “There Goes the
Neighborhood” – tells the
complex history and current tale of Los
Angeles, the city referred to in the
first episode as “an exceedingly
improbable phenomenon” that has
become a thriving global metropolis.
This is a partial list of Centennial events. Additional
events will be added and unveiled throughout the year.
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