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Big Data Social Science: Building a Research Infrastructure for Harnessing the Data Revolution and its Social Implications

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UCLA to launch new social justice curriculum with $5 million grant from Mellon Foundation

The curriculum will pair social justice teaching with community…
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Million Dollar Hoods is already influencing policing in Los Angeles

Students, staff and faculty members of Million Dollar Hoods.…
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UCLA alumna awarded Mitchell Scholarship, first in 20 years

Top row, from left: Genevieve Finn, Kristy Hinds. Bottom row,…
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Are millennials really as ‘post-racial’ as we think?

Gaddis Illustration (Photo Credit: Febris Martono) -Researchers…
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Match funds stimulate establishment of nine centennial term chairs

UCLA College donors gave gifts to establish nine endowed centennial…
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Diversity improves among TV actors, but executives still overwhelmingly white and male

The Netflix limited series “When they See Us” was one of…
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The new ‘Ellis Island’

Jason De León is raising awareness about the people who migrate…
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In election salon, UCLA faculty discuss how to protect the right to vote

Clockwise from top left: Natalie Masuoka, Lorrie Frasure, Chad…