Another Donation

As blog readers will know, we like to take notice of donations to UCLA that don't involve brick-and-mortar construction.

...Through a $5 million pledge by Haleh Emrani in honor of her late husband, Ahmad Gramian, UCLA will establish the Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The new center builds on the school of music’s Iranian Music Program, established after a 2018 gift from Farhang Foundation, a nonpolitical, nonreligious, not-for-profit community organization devoted to celebrating and promoting Iranian art and culture, which Gramian chaired...

Full story at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/gramian-emrani-center-iranian-music-endowed-fund-gift.