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  2. History of the University of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) traces back to the 19th century when the institution operated as a teachers' college.It grew 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. [1]

  3. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library - Wikipedia

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    It holds books and manuscripts with particularly many regarding English literature and history from the 17th-19th century, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siècle, and fine press printing. It is located about 10 mi (16 km) southeast from UCLA, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, and 2 mi (3.2 km) west of the University of Southern California.

  4. University of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center is also a major teaching and training site for the university. The UCLA Medical Center made history in 1981 when Assistant Professor Michael Gottlieb first diagnosed AIDS. UCLA medical researchers also pioneered the use of positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to study brain function.

  5. Brenda Elaine Stevenson - Wikipedia

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    Brenda Elaine Stevenson is an American historian specializing in the history of the Southern United States and African-American history, particularly slavery, gender, race and race riots. She is Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History and Professor in African-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [1]

  6. UCLA School of Education and Information Studies - Wikipedia

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    See the history of information science. The School of Education and the School of Library and Information Science were incorporated into the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies in 1994. UCLA is the only major research university in the country that combines these two areas of study into a single school or college. [18]

  7. Perry Anderson - Wikipedia

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    His work ranges across historical sociology, intellectual history, and cultural analysis. What unites Anderson's work is a preoccupation with Western Marxism. [citation needed] Anderson is perhaps best known as the moving force behind the New Left Review. He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA

  8. Kelly Lytle Hernández - Wikipedia

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    Kelly Lytle Hernández is an American academic and historian. Hernández is a tenured professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and is the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

  9. Robert A. Hill (historian) - Wikipedia

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    Robert A. Hill (born October 1943) [1] is a Jamaican historian and academic who moved to the United States in the 1970s. [2] He is Professor Emeritus of History and Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Visiting Fellow at The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.