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

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Are millennials really as ‘post-racial’ as we think?

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Match funds stimulate establishment of nine centennial term chairs

UCLA College donors gave gifts to establish nine endowed centennial…
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Diversity improves among TV actors, but executives still overwhelmingly white and male

The Netflix limited series “When they See Us” was one of…
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The new ‘Ellis Island’

Jason De León is raising awareness about the people who migrate…
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In election salon, UCLA faculty discuss how to protect the right to vote

Clockwise from top left: Natalie Masuoka, Lorrie Frasure, Chad…
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UCLA political scientists: Political polarization is not as simple as it appears

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Election of Kamala Harris invites Americans to consider identity

Kamala Harris (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore) Kamala Harris, only…
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12 UCLA College scientists among world’s most influential researchers

A researcher in the lab. Photo Credit: iStock.com Thirty-six…