Unearthing Easter Island’s Moai
Two Moai are shown during excavations by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and her team at Rano Raraku quarry on Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island. Photo credit: Easter Island […]
Two Moai are shown during excavations by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and her team at Rano Raraku quarry on Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island. Photo credit: Easter Island […]
Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Photo credit: Caroline Libresco Adding to the chorus of critics’ raves, The Economist has named “Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century,” a new book from […]
Nation, World + Society UCLA researchers aim to increase diversity in the study of political data Grant brings together young scholars and expands the number of ethnic and racial groups […]
Environment + Climate Florida mangroves reveal complex relationship between climate and natural systems UCLA-led research examined records dating to 1700s to discover how mangroves expand and retreat with climate cycles […]
UCLA Newsroom | October 14, 2019 A team of UCLA researchers led by Ananya Roy, the Meyer and Renee Luskin Professor of Inequality and Democracy, has received a $225,000 grant […]
Jessica Wolf | October 14, 2019 As a quiet darkness descended over the several thousand people gathered between Royce Hall and Powell Library eagerly waiting to celebrate UCLA’s Centennial, a […]
Stephanie Chang | October 17, 2019 The recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards — UCLA’s highest honor for teaching — were recently honored at the Andrea L. Rich Night to […]
Mike Fricano | September 25, 2019 UCLA professor Kelly Lytle Hernández, an award-winning author and scholar of race, mass incarceration and immigration, was announced today as a recipient of a […]
The 11 societies studied included the Namibian community of the Himba, where this father and child live. Photo credit: Brooke Scelza. In cultures where fathers are highly invested in the […]
Monica Smith. Photo credit: Paul Connor The only thing a person really needs to be an archaeologist is a good sense of observation, UCLA professor of anthropology Monica Smith proclaims […]