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UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report 2026 Part 1: Theatrical

NEW! UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report 2026 Part 1: Theatrical 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.eduor 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…

Is college still worth it? New course explores the economics of education

Interview featuring James Lee, fifth-year economics student, who will teach a research course through UCLA’s Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Program exploring this topic Citlalli Chávez-Nava Is going to college still worth it? What can government policy do to improve educational outcomes? And how do researchers measure the real return on education? Those are the…

UCLA’s Dialogue across Difference Initiative featured on PBS

UCLA Social Sciences In a new four-part series on PBS, “Black and Jewish in America: An Interwoven History,” renowned Harvard University professor, literary scholar and Emmy/Peabody Award-Winning filmmaker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines the “rich, complex relationship between Black and Jewish Americans.” David N. Myers, UCLA’s Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History and Bedari…

Juliana Londoño-Vélez awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowship  

Her research applies state-of-the-art empirical methods to identify governmental constraints on redistributive capacities and how targeted interventions can shape the life trajectories of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds    UCLA Social Sciences UCLA Department of economics faculty member, Juliana Londoño-Vélez, joins three UCLA faculty, among the 126 scientists and scholars from 44 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada to…