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Big Data Social Science: Building a Research Infrastructure for Harnessing the Data Revolution and its Social Implications

When Medicine Stops Saving Us: The Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis

The past, present, and future of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through the lenses of film, sociology, public policy, industry, and public health.

Tobias Higbie appointed as UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Director

UCLA IRLE Newsroom | September 2, 2022 Tobias Higbie – professor…
James Lawson

UCLA Labor Center building to be renamed for civil rights icon Rev. James Lawson Jr.

New California budget also sets aside $15 million for renovations It’s…
Renee Tajima-Pena

Renee Tajima-Peña wins Peabody for ‘Asian Americans’ docuseries

UCLA professor Renee Tajima-Peña, series producer of “Asian…
Anne Nguyen

Graduating senior forged new connections to Vietnamese heritage through UCLA class

UCLA senior Anne Nguyen. (Photo Courtesy of Anne Nguyen) Anne…
Bradley Burnam

In Conversation with Bradley Burnam ’01

By Bekah Wright Bradley Burnam ’01, founding member…
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Advancing Equality with Better Data

  By Elizabeth Kivowitz  |  Photo by Matika Wilbur   A proud…
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Big Data and Society

There are countless applications of big data that help us solve many of the problems that define life today in American society.