The stone faces and human problems on Easter Island
Excavation of Moai 156 (left) and 157. The visible difference in color and texture, and thus in preservation, is due to soil and depth coverage. In 1981, UCLA archaeology graduate […]
Archive for month: April, 2019
Brenda Elaine Stevenson receives inaugural 2019 Germany residency at the University of Augsburg
Brenda Elaine Stevenson During its annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) announced that Brenda Elaine Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles, has been selected to […]
Social scientists partner with Nollywood film industry to test a corruption-reporting campaign in Nigeria
Researchers said that using popular entertainment can help create a consensus among people to take up behaviors that benefit the community. A team of social scientists, including UCLA political science […]
Center for the Study of Women embraces ‘anti-carceral’ feminist research
iStock.com/sakhorn38 Just 4 percent of the world’s female population lives in the United States, but the U.S. accounts for more than 30 percent of the world’s incarcerated women. Kelly Savage […]
Divorce’s effect on children’s educational achievement is not a constant
iStock.com/Wavebreakmedia When parents are statistically unlikely to divorce, their children are less likely to attend college in the event of a divorce. Conventional wisdom holds that when parents divorce, their […]
