The University of Southern California is a private research university in Los Angeles,California,United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney,it is the oldest private research university in California.
The University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles,California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School. This school was absorbed with the official founding of UCLA as the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919,making it the second-oldest of the 10-campus University of California system.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD),officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department,is the municipal law enforcement agency of Los Angeles,California,United States. With 9,974 officers and 3,000 civilian staff,it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States,after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department.
Anita Ortega is an Afro-Puerto Rican former collegiate basketball player at UCLA. She was an All-American. The team went on to defeat the University of Maryland,College Park in 1978 to take the Division I collegiate title. In 1979,she played in the 1979 Pan American Games,representing Puerto Rico. Her father was born in Bayamón.
Christine Devine is an American television news anchor based in Los Angeles. She can be seen weeknights on KTTV's Fox 11 News. She has won 16 Emmys,including the prestigious Governors Award. Six Emmys were for Best Newscast.
Rick Tuttle is an American politician,university administrator and educator from Los Angeles,California.
Gilbert Salvador Iberri Garcetti is an American politician and lawyer. He served as Los Angeles County's 40th district attorney for two terms,from 1992 until November 7,2000. He is the father of U.S. Ambassador to India and former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Charles Edward Young,nicknamed Chuck Young,is an American retired university administrator and professor. A native of California,Young led the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) for 29 years as chancellor and the University of Florida for more than four years as president. He now lives in Sonoma,California.
Jackie Robinson Stadium is a college baseball park in Los Angeles,California. It is the home field of the UCLA Bruins of the Pac-12 Conference. Opened 42 years ago in 1981,it is the smallest ballpark in the conference,with a seating capacity of 1,820. It is named after former Bruin athlete Jackie Robinson,the first African-American major league baseball player of the modern era.
The history of the University of California,Los Angeles traces back to the 19th century when the institution operated as a teachers' college. It would grow in size and scope for nearly four decades on two Los Angeles campuses before California governor William D. Stephens signed a bill into law in 1919 to establish the Southern Branch of the University of California. As the university broke ground for its new Westwood campus in 1927 and dissatisfaction grew for the "Southern Branch" name,the UC Regents formally adopted the "University of California at Los Angeles" name and "U.C.L.A." abbreviation that year. The "at" would be removed in 1958 and "UCLA" without periods would become the preferred stylization under Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy in the 1960s. In the first century after its founding,UCLA established itself as a leading research university with global impact across arts and culture,education,health care,technology and more.
Kim McLane Wardlaw is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1998. She is the first Hispanic American woman to be appointed to a federal appeals court. Wardlaw was considered as a possible candidate to be nominated by Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson High School,usually referred to as Jefferson High School, is a public high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Founded in 1916,it is the fourth oldest high school in the school district. Located in South Los Angeles,its surrounding communities are Downtown,Central-Alameda,Florence,Historic South-Central and South Park. Jefferson's school colors are kelly green and gold and the sports teams are called the Democrats,or Demos for short. In 2006,a pilot program called New Tech:Student Empowerment Academy began in the northeast portion of the school. New Tech has since become a separate charter school housed in the Jefferson building. In 2016 New Tech closed down and the available space is now used by Nava College Preparatory Academy a pilot school that was established in 2014.
Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa is an American politician who served as the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,Villaraigosa was a national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign,a member of President Barack Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board,and chair of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot is an Egyptian-born historian,professor of history at the University of California,Los Angeles,who has written on the history of Egypt since the eighteenth century.
ACCESS Magazine that existed in print from 1992 and 2017 reports on research at the University of California Transportation Center and the University of California Center on Economic Competitiveness (UCCONNECT). The goal is to translate academic research into readable prose that is useful for policymakers and practitioners. Articles in ACCESS are intended to catapult academic research into debates about public policy,and convert knowledge into action. Authors of papers reporting on research here are solely responsible for their content. Much of the research appearing in ACCESS was sponsored by the US Department of Transportation and the California Department of Transportation,neither of which is liable for its content or use.
Although often characterized as apolitical,“Los Angeles has provided the setting for many important chapters in the struggle for gay and lesbian community,visibility,and civil rights." Moreover,Los Angeles' LGBT community has historically played a significant role in the development of the entertainment industry.
Austin Michael Beutner is an American businessman who served as Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent from May 1,2018 to June 30,2021. He previously served as the first deputy mayor of Los Angeles from 2010 through 2013,and briefly ran in the 2013 Los Angeles mayoral election. Prior to entering politics,Beutner was an investment banker and would later become the publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
On June 1,2016,two men were killed in a murder-suicide at a School of Engineering building on the campus of University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA). The gunman was identified as Mainak Sarkar,an Indian-born 38-year-old former UCLA Ph.D student. The victim was William Scott Klug,a professor who was Sarkar's thesis advisor while Sarkar was a student at UCLA. A woman,later identified as Sarkar's estranged wife,was found dead in Minnesota during the subsequent investigation into the shooting,and is suspected to have been killed by Sarkar several days before the UCLA shooting.
Michael Nelson Feuer is an American politician and lawyer,who served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 2013 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Feuer previously served three terms in the California State Assembly,representing the 42nd Assembly District,and as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1995 to 2001,representing the 5th Council District.
Cynthia Ann Telles is an American academic and psychologist who currently serves as the US Ambassador to Costa Rica. She is a clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves on the executive committee of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is the founding director of the Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence.
