The twelfth annual Undergraduate Research Week was held May 19-23. Faculty and students from the Division of Social Sciences received numerous awards highlighting their dedication to social and creative inquiry.
Participants in social safety net programs, like Head Start, had higher rates of employment, were less reliant on public assistance
Victoria Gutierrez’s senior research examines how Salton Sea residents organize to overcome poverty, environmental challenges
Aomar Boum, professor of anthropology and of Near Eastern languages and cultures at UCLA, was inducted into the National Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco at a ceremony held on April 24 in Rabat, Morocco.
Marilyn Raphael, professor of geography within UCLA’s Division of Social Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for her achievements in original research.
Distinguished research professor of anthropology Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Professor of Political Science Jeffrey Lewis have been selected to the American Academy of Arts, they are among four UCLA faculty and nearly 250 artists, scholars, scientists and leaders in the public, nonprofit and private sectors chosen for membership this year.
UCLA’s Park Williams, was named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow on April 15. His research aims to improve our understanding of how climate change influences the hydrological cycle and ecological dynamics and how extremes like drought, floods, heat waves and wildfires affect life on the planet.
In a discussion hosted by UCLA, American and Canadian economic and policy experts shared their perspective on how current trade tensions between these nations could affect the economies, the public and environments of both nations.
UCLA professor Jason De León who won the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling” discussed his book on a recent episode of Latino USA with host Maria Hinojosa.
Professor Gregory Okin, chair of UCLA’s Department of Geography, is among a group of ten UCLA researchers recently named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society, the association announced on March 27.