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Good luck, Bruins! Fall quarter starts as we embark on an exciting new academic year! Stop by the Bruin Bear for First Day Festival to pickup a map or refreshment on your way to class.

Visit UCLA's Department of Military Science offices and meet current faculty and staff to learn more about becoming a United States Army Officer while you attend UCLA. Location: Student Activities Center, Room 120Q

Pull up to Pride Welcome! Bruins, join the LGBTQ Campus Resource Center as we kick off the year in Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Thursday, September 24th from 3-5pm! Drop by to connect with student orgs, discover campus resources, grab some cookies, say hi to the LGBTQ CRC team, and dance to a live DJ set by @Grrlkiss! No RSVP required. Location: Ackerman Grand Ballroom

Welcome to UCLA! This event will help you meet other Transfers, learn more about UCLA, and give you access to exclusive swag. This event will feature crafty activities, campus partners & student orgs to help you get involved, and social areas to meet other Transfers! Get your boots on & join us as we ride into the 26-27 school year. Location: Pauley Pavilion

This event will help you meet other Transfers, learn more about UCLA, and give you access to exclusive swag. This event will feature crafty activities, campus partners & student orgs to help you get involved, and social areas to meet other Transfers! Location: Pauley Pavilion

This workshop will provide guidance on preparing a competitive application for the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (https://www.pdsoros.org/), which provides up to $90K in support for graduate students from migrant backgrounds. Specifically, this workshop will focus on writing strategies for telling your New American story in a compelling, creative, and empowering way. We will brainstorm and begin drafting application components during the session. Although the application is not due until October 2026, we recommend getting started on your application essays well in advance, to allow for multiple drafts and revision.

Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and Professor Mike Lee for an evening of music featuring the fortepiano.

Classes will be dropped for students with an outstanding Fall 2026 tuition and fee balance.

Visit UCLA's Department of Military Science offices and meet current faculty and staff to learn more about becoming a United States Army Officer while you attend UCLA. Location: Student Activities Center, Room 120Q

Concerned about managing your reading workload in graduate school? Do you sometimes miss information or alternatively take too many notes when you read? This workshop will cover effective reading and note-taking strategies so that you read more efficiently, assess your reading with a critical eye, and annotate strategically so that important concepts are easily accessible.

Join us for a special event commemorating the Clark Library’s centennial and exploring the remarkable life of its founder, William Andrews Clark Jr. The event begins with the opening of the exhibition "Private Passions, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles," curated by the staff of the Clark Library, to be followed by a talk by Liz Brown, author of "Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire" (Penguin, 2021), who will discuss the history of the library’s founder. The afternoon concludes with an outdoor reception as the library remains open for exhibition viewing. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library - http://www.youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs

Your first Friday is kicking off right! Join Recreation on the IM Field for a Friday Night Lights edition of Rec Fest 2026, featuring all things fun, wellness, and community. Come enjoy music, fitness class samplers, Club Sports meet & greets, Esports, demos, games, giveaways, and more, open to all UCLA students! Location: IM Field

The UCLA Volunteer Center’s inaugural event, UCLA Volunteer Day, has become a cornerstone of the UCLA experience. It is the university’s largest community service events and occurs during True Bruin Welcome. New freshmen and transfer students join together with continuing undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and community members to participate in a wide range of community service projects across Los Angeles and the globe. Volunteers participate at various community partner sites providing critical service work, beautification, and support at food banks, parks, shelters, senior centers, schools, veterans’ facilities, and various other community organizations Location: On and Off Campus Locations

The UCLA Volunteer Center’s inaugural event, UCLA Volunteer Day, has become a cornerstone of the UCLA experience. It is one of the university’s largest community service events and occurs during True Bruin Welcome. New freshmen and transfer students join together with continuing undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and community members to participate in a wide range of community service projects across Los Angeles and the globe. Volunteers participate at 45+ community partner sites providing critical service work, beautification, and support at food banks, parks, shelters, senior centers, schools, veterans’ facilities, and various other community organizations. Location: Multiple Locations across Los Angeles

2nd XV Match Location: Intramural Field

NCR XVs Premier League Location: Intramural Field

The UCLA Career Center has partnered with JCPenney to bring the UCLA community up to 45% off select careerwear, shoes and accessories. Event will be held at the JCPenney at the Fox Hills mall. All UCLA undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, staff, faculty and alumni are welcome. Please feel free to invite your friends, family, and community to join in. Ways to get to JCPenney! - Drive or Carpool and self park. The mall parking is completely free. - Culver City Green Bus - Line 6. $1 to ride. Get off on Culver City Transit Center. - Use our shuttle provided by ResLife! This is a FREE round-trip transportation from campus. Buses will leave from Luskin Turnaround every 30 minutes. The first bus will leave campus by 4:30pm to arrive by 5pm at JCPenney. The last bus will leave campus by 7:00pm. The JCPenney store is located at 6000 S Hannum Ave, Culver City, CA 90230. Please enter directly from the outside entrance rather than from inside of the mall, you will need to use he dedicated exterior ground-level entrance facing the eastern edge of the mall property (near the charging stations). Our check in stations will be by the outside doors, all other entrances may be closed since this will be a UCLA only event. REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO ATTEND BUT HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. You will have the opportunity to check in at the event. Location: 6000 S Hannum Ave, Culver City, CA 90230

Bienvenida! Join the Latinx Greek Council as they welcome any student interested in Latinx fraternities and sororities and looking to build community around shared heritage and experiences. Most fraternities and sororities in the Latinx Greek Council choose the time when they wish to accept new members through developing "interest" in the fall quarter. Join LGC chapters for an informational meeting to learn more about the community and how to join. LGC will host a "Meet the Greeks" event during week 1. Please follow our Instagram to get updates and details.

Join the Multi-Interest Greek Council as they invite any student interested in MIGC fraternities and sororities and looking to build community around shared heritage and experiences. Many fraternities and sororities in the Multi-Interest Greek Council welcome new members throughout the first few weeks of the fall quarter. Join MIGC chapters for an informational meeting to learn more about the community and how to join. Visit https://fsl.ucla.edu/community-directory or @UCLAMIGC for more information and contact each chapter for their specific recruitment event details.

If you are a returning student, welcome back! Stop by between your classes to get some snacks and if you need help navigating campus, we are here for you!

This workshop provides an overview on the various forms of academic dishonesty regarding plagiarism. Participants will learn when, where, and why it is important to cite properly. Students will also learn how to avoid plagiarism and the information presented will stress the need to attribute work to the original author and the potential outcomes for plagiarizing. Additionally, paraphrasing, and direct quoting will be discussed. ZOOM. Register through MyUCLA by going to Campus Life> Calendar> Event Reservations> Find Events. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/7500525367

Talk with staff and students and find out how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA. What does the Library offer? Multiple library locations Collaboration and study spaces By appointment and drop-in research help Student employment Equipment lending Library workshops and programs And so much more! Stop by, make a button, pick up some free swag and learn how Library staff can help you navigate the upcoming year. Location: Powell Library, Royce Quad

Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Learn all about the research process and research opportunities at UCLA, as well as how to find a faculty mentor and earn course credit for doing research. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99902554343

Internationally acclaimed saxophonist Anna Marie Wytko leads a masterclass at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. About Anna Marie Wytko: Saxophonist Anna Marie Wytko, whose playing has been described by The Absolute Sound as “extraordinary” and the Uruguayan Press as “impeccable,” is University Distinguished Professor of Saxophone within the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Kansas State University. A Yamaha Performing Artist-Clinician and KSU International Educator of the Year Award Winner, Dr. Wytko is a globally acclaimed recording, performing, and teaching artist, as well as a globally praised author of multiple books, articles, and other publications. Sample albums include When Night Came, Anna Marie Wytko – Saxophonist, The Loveliness of Air – I Can’t Breathe, Muddle, and Phraseology. Published by RJ Upmarket Press, Dr. Wytko authored pedagogy books The Saxophonist As Rank Beginner and Beyond: A Guide for Saxophone Methods Class, Band Directors, and Private Instructors and The Saxophonist As Musician First – A Sampling Of Resources. As concerto soloist, Anna Marie has performed in Carnegie Hall in the famous Stern Auditorium on the esteemed Perelman Stage, and in the historic National Theatre of Costa Rica with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica. She has performed as concerto soloist with the Polish Air Force Wind Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the Banda Sinfónica de Montevideo in Uruguay, with the National Bands of San José and Alajuela in Costa Rica, and with orchestras throughout England and Scotland, among many others. Internationally, Dr. Wytko has performed as guest recitalist and taught as guest professor at institutions such as the Royal College of Music in London, the Royal Birmingham Conservatory of Music, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música de Buenos Aires, the University of Zagreb Academy of Music, the Akademia Muzyczna of Poland, the Universidad de Costa Rica, and throughout Italy at the national conservatories of Milan, Florence, Bologna, and Perugia. The winner of numerous awards and prizes, Anna Marie is a Yamaha Young Performing Artist First Prize Winner, Butterfield Young Artists Concerto Competition First Prize Winner, International Incentive Grant award recipient, and Mortar Board National Honor Society for “Exemplary in Instruction and Dedication to the Students’ Experience” award recipient, among numerous others. Please visit Anna Marie’s website for further information.

Concerned about managing your reading workload in graduate school? Do you sometimes miss information or alternatively take too many notes when you read? This workshop will cover effective reading and note-taking strategies so that you read more efficiently, assess your reading with a critical eye, and annotate strategically so that important concepts are easily accessible.

  From lush melodies and jazz-inflected rhythms to music born of war, resilience and cultural memory, this concert takes audiences on a journey across continents and musical traditions. The musical journey begins with William Grant Still’s lush Romance, the first known concert piece for saxophone by an African American composer. Next, immerse yourself in the brilliant three-movement Concertino by French composer Jeanine Rueff. Featuring a jazz-inspired final movement, audiences will be certain to dance the rest of the night away following this delightful and joyous music. The California premiere of Seattle-based composer Karen P. Thomas’ When night came reflects the horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia and, in particular, the atrocities committed against the women of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Partly a lament, the piece is also a tribute to the strength and resilience of these women. Czech composer Jindřich Feld’s substantial Sonate pushes the boundaries of sonic and technical virtuosity in this highly flavorful composition. Last but certainly not least, embrace the rich melodies of Retorno (Return) by Costa Rican composer Federico Molina Campos in this U.S. premiere. For more information about the artists, visit the program.

Meet librarians with expertise about various STEM disciplines, learn about Library research tools and resources and hear how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA. What does the Library offer? Multiple library locations Collaboration and study spaces By appointment and drop-in research help Student employment Equipment lending Library workshops and programs And so much more! Stop by, make a button, pick up some free swag and learn how Library staff can help you navigate the upcoming year. Location: Court of Sciences, south campus

Talk with staff and students and find out how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA. What does the Library offer? Multiple library locations Collaboration and study spaces By appointment and drop-in research help Student employment Equipment lending Library workshops and programs And so much more! Stop by, make a button, pick up some free swag and learn how Library staff can help you navigate the upcoming year. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library

UCLA Nazir Ali Jairazhboy Colloquium Amy Skjerseth – “From Dune’s ‘Desert Lady Voice’ to DJ KSHMR’s Sample Packs: Preprogrammed Music and Media Stereotypes” If you have seen the Dune movies (scored by Hans Zimmer), or many movies with desert scenes in the past century of sound cinema, then you likely have heard the “desert lady voice”: Hollywood filmmakers slap the sound of a woman singing a non-Western melody onto Middle Eastern landscapes. But the buck does not stop here; popular sample packs used by bedroom and studio producers alike continue to flood music, commercials, and media with this sonic stereotype. The immortalization and circulation of this musical and cultural default from Hollywood to TikTok is an example of a preset, or a default setting on technology. As I write in my new book, Preprogrammed: How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media (University of California Press), presets can be found everywhere in modern music and media, as well as in even more quotidian objects, from microwave popcorn buttons and Instagram filters to your smartphone’s predictive text. But while presets help us complete tasks and produce art quickly and efficiently, their design also reinforces economic, political, and social norms. In this talk, I employ capitalist, queer, and feminist critique to reveal how presets have reconfigured ways of seeing and hearing over the past century—from the popularization of the push-button car radio in the 1930s to the Auto-Tune era and the advent of AI. With examples from silent film music organs up to gallery-sized drum machines, I show how artists have coopted preset technologies to develop new forms of artistic and cultural expression, which urge us to reconsider the cultural and political systems we often take for granted. Amy Skjerseth is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at the University of California, Riverside. She researches intersections of music, media, material culture, and technology. Her books include The Routledge Companion to Voice and Identity and Preprogrammed: How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media (University of California Press). Her second monograph, in progress, centers feminist and queer approaches to the wall of sound. If you are interested in reading Preprogrammed, here is an open access link to Skjerseth’s book on the University of California Press webpage, and a flyer attached with a discount code for ordering a print copy.

Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Learn all about the research process and research opportunities at UCLA, as well as how to find a faculty mentor and earn course credit for doing research. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99902554343

This workshop will provide and overview of strategies and resources for developing as an effective writer and communicator in your field. It will explain the range of resource available across different stages of graduate school and some discipline specific approaches.