nd 2,900 graduate students.[135]
Most undergraduate students are housed in 14 complexes on the western side of campus, referred to by students as "The Hill." Students can live in halls, plazas, suites, or university apartments, which vary in pricing and privacy. Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities, which have been ranked by the Princeton Review as some of the best in the nation.[136] Dining halls are located in De Neve, Rieber, Covel, and Hedrick Halls. In winter 2012, a new dining hall called The Feast at Rieber opened to students.[137] Residential cafes include Bruin Cafe, Rendezvous, and Cafe 1919.[137] Cafe 1919's location formerly housed a cafe known as Puzzles.[137] UCLA currently offers three years guaranteed housing to its incoming freshman, and one year to incoming transfer students. There are four type of housing available for students, residential halls, deluxe residential halls, residential plazas, and residential suites. Available on the hill are study rooms, basketball courts, tennis courts, and Sunset Recreational Center which includes three pools.
Graduate students are housed in one of five apartment complexes. One, Weyburn Terrace, is located just southwest of the campus. The other four are roughly five miles south of UCLA in Palms and Mar Vista. They too vary in pricing and privacy.[138]
According to the Daily Bruin, 1,525 beds, 10 faculty in-residence apartments and a 750-seat dining hall will be built on the Northwest Housing Infill Project on the Hill by 2013. The buildings are tentatively titled De Neve Gardenia Way, De Neve Holly Ridge, Sproul Cove, and Sproul Landing.[139]
If involved in Greek life, students have the option to also live in Greek housing while at UCLA. Oftentimes cheaper than living in the dorms or the apartments, Greek housing is a great option for living arrangements for a year or two. Sorority houses are located on Hilgard Avenue, and the Fraternity houses are placed on the opposite side of campus throughout Westwood Village. A student usually lives with 50+ students in Greek housing.
Hospitality[edit]
Hospitality constituents of the university include departments not directly related to student life or administration. The Hospitality department manages the UCLA Guest House, a full-service, on-campus hotel. The 61-room Guest House services those visiting the university for campus-related activities.[140] The department also manages the UCLA Conference Center, a 40 acre (0.2 km²) conference center in the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead.[141] Hospitality also operates UCLA Catering [142] a Vending operation, and summer conference center located on the Westwood campus.[143]
Chabad House[edit]
The UCLA Chabad House is a community center for Jewish students operated by the Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement. Established in 1969, it was the first Chabad House at a university.[144][145] In 1980, three students died in a fire in the original building of the UCLA Chabad House. The present building was erected in their memory. The building, completed in 1984, was the first of many Chabad houses worldwide designed as architectural reproductions of the residence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.[144]
Faculty and alumni[edit]
See also: List of University of California, Los Angeles people
Fifteen Nobel laureates are associated with UCLA: eight professors[17] and seven alumni.[18] The professors are Lloyd Shapley, Economic Sciences, 2012;[146] Louis Ignarro, Physiology or Medicine, 1998;[147] Paul Boyer, Chemistry, 1997;[148] Donald Cram, Chemistry, 1987;[149] Julian S. Schwinger, Physics, 1965;[150] and Willard Libby, Chemistry, 1960.[151] Two other faculty members winning the Nobel Prize were Bertrand Russell and Al Gore,[152] who had a short stay at UCLA. The alumni Nobel laureates include Richard Heck, Chemistry, 2010;[153] Elinor Ostrom, Economic Sciences, 2009;[154] and Randy Schekman, Medicine, 2013.[155] Fifty-two UCLA professors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, and eleven are MacArthur Foundation Fellows. Mathematics professor Terence Tao was awarded the 2006 Fields Medal.[156]
Society Faculty membership
