Professor Cheryl Keyes invites all to join UCLA’s campus prelude celebration on June 5 By Jonathan Riggs For Cheryl Keyes, the celebration has been a long time coming. Ever since Juneteenth (June 19) became the newest federal holiday in 2021, Keyes, chair of the UCLA Department of African American Studies, has been carefully planning how she could…
NEW! The Hollywood Diversity Report 2024, Part 2: Streaming is now available. Download the full report HERE For any media inquiries, please contact Eddie North-Hager at enhager@stratcomm.ucla.edu or Barbra Ramos at bramos@stratcomm.ucla.edu For donor/sponsor inquiries, please contact Peter Evans at pevans@support.ucla.edu or Lisa Mohan at lmohan@support.ucla.edu To download any of the previous reports in the Hollywood Diversity Report series, click HERE. To learn more about the new…
By Kayla McCormack Diego Sarmiento, a third-year political science major and public affairs minor, has won the Truman Scholarship. This marks the first time since 2009 that a UCLA student has been selected for this award. The Truman Scholarship is awarded to college juniors committed to careers in public service. In addition to extensive support…
By Alvaro Castillo While many things may have changed over the first half century of the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, its key mission has not, according to attendees of the anniversary celebration in March. Jason De León, institute director and professor of anthropology and Chicana/o and Central American studies, opened the program by quoting founding…
Mellon Foundation invests $1 million in transformative UCLA cultural conservation program By Jonathan Riggs The crucial work of conserving archaeological and cultural heritage materials allows us to connect and sometimes even reconstruct the past. But too often, the field has not made room for more diverse perspectives and practitioners who may have closer ties than their…
By Elizabeth Kivowitz Based on their seven years of research, UCLA sociologist Stefan Timmermans and Pamela Prickett from the University of Amsterdam have published “The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels.” The book follows the lives, deaths and ultimately, the remains, of four Angelenos at risk of being “unclaimed,” meaning that upon…
The professor’s book uses creative nonfiction to show how one of the nation’s most divisive topics is bigger than money By Madeline Adamo How much is a smile worth? Is it worth more if that smile was stolen centuries ago, stamped out by an iron bit that pierced the mouth of its victim, starvation often…
NEW! The Hollywood Diversity Report 2023, Part 2: TV is now available. Download the full report HERE For any media inquiries, please contact Eddie North-Hager at enhager@stratcomm.ucla.edu or Barbra Ramos at bramos@stratcomm.ucla.edu For donor/sponsor inquiries, please contact Peter Evans at pevans@support.ucla.edu or Lisa Mohan at lmohan@support.ucla.edu To download any of the previous reports in the Hollywood Diversity Report series, click HERE….
By UCLA IRLE Newsroom Tobias Higbie – professor of labor studies and history and former associate director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) – has been appointed as the institute’s new director as of September 1, 2022. Higbie succeeds Abel Valenzuela Jr., who was appointed as interim dean of the division of social…