A researcher in the lab. Photo Credit: iStock.com Thirty-six UCLA scholars have been named as the world’s most influential scientific researchers. Twelve are from UCLA College. Clarivate released its annual […]
“We laid out a framework for understanding why witnessing kindness motivates being kind,” said UCLA’s Daniel Fessler. (Photo Credit: iStock.com/solitude72) Today is World Kindness Day, and despite the current state […]
Jessa Calderon (Tongva and Chumash) Photo credit: Kote Melendez The UCLA Center for Community Learning has a new name. As of November 10, the Center will be known as the […]
After “One Day at a Time” was canceled by Netflix in 2019, fans launched a campaign to save the show, which follows a Cuban-American family. The program was later picked […]
Marriage rates will plummet and people will put off having children in a virus-plagued world, potentially leading to a drop in nations’ populations, UCLA professor Martie Haselton and colleagues say. […]
Norma Mendoza-Denton, professor of anthropology in the UCLA College, studies the language used by President Donald Trump and politicians of all stripes. She’s co-editor (with Janet McIntosh of Brandeis University) […]
Connecting With Kindness (Photo Credit: Juliette Borda) With so many people hurting in this turmoil-filled year — be it physically, economically, socially or psychologically — it’s hard to imagine a […]
Abel Valenzuela “Los Angeles is the harbinger for the future. It’s a city that has driven the national debate on workforce issues such as the minimum wage, wage theft, youth […]
Black Feminism Initiative collage. Left image: The inaugural public event hosted by the Black Feminism Initiative, held in February, featured a conversation between local reproductive justice advocate Kimberly Durdin, left, […]
In her latest book, “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote,” UCLA professor emerita Ellen DuBois traces the three-generation struggle that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920. The battle for […]
