UCLA professor Renee Tajima-Peña, series producer of “Asian Americans.” (Photo Credit: Claudio Rocha) “Asian Americans,” the five-part miniseries created for PBS by Renee Tajima-Peña, UCLA professor of Asian American studies, […]
UCLA senior Anne Nguyen. (Photo Courtesy of Anne Nguyen) Anne Nguyen started observing the economic and emotional tolls of the pandemic before a lot of others. Having grown up in […]
By Bekah Wright Bradley Burnam ’01, founding member of the recently formed UCLA Social Sciences Dean’s Advisory Board, says that delivering UCLA’s Department of Sociology’s 2019 commencement address was “the […]
By Elizabeth Kivowitz | Photo by Matika Wilbur A proud Northern Cheyenne Indian and Chicana, Desi Small-Rodriguez says that she’s a relative first, then a researcher and teacher, […]
Social justice campaigner and civic leader D’Artagnan Scorza to give the keynote address at the UCLA College’s 2021 virtual commencement ceremony. (Photo Credit: G L Askew II) Civic leader, social […]
UCLA 2021 AAAS membersTop row: UCLA professors Terence Blanchard, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Barbara Geddes and Elisabeth Le Guin.Bottom row: UCLA professors Kelly Lytle Hernández, Daniel Posner, Marilyn Raphael and Victoria Sork. […]
Netflix action-thriller “The Old Guard,” directed by UCLA alumna Gina Prince-Bythewood, featured a cast that was 50% minority. The series landed in the top 10 streaming charts for all racial […]
The new initiative will seek ways to help build a more equitable economy after the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk/Pexels) The UCLA Labor Center has received a $1.3 million grant from […]
Among the recommendations in the new report: Officials must stop treating homelessness as a criminal act. (Photo Credit: Levi Clancy/Wikimedia Commons) Homelessness in Los Angeles was already on the rise […]
The curriculum will pair social justice teaching with community engagement and instruction in data literacy, statistics and computational research methods. (Photo Credit: Ann Johansson/UCLA College) A $5 million grant from The […]
