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Susan Slyomovics receives American Anthropological Association book award

Reducing financial barriers to contraception lowers rate of unintended pregnancies and abortions

The UCLA study quantifies the benefits of federal programs that fund contraception for low-income Americans Citlalli Chávez-Nava A UCLA clinical trial finds that reducing the costs of contraception results in 16% fewer unintended pregnancies and 12% fewer abortions among low-income women after two years. In a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), […]

How lethal aggression increased reproductive success in wild chimpanzees

UCLA’s Compassionate Conversations focuses on ‘kindness to the stranger’

UCLA’s Jessica W. Lynch named 2025 Fulbright Scholar

Lynch plans to return to Brazil to further collaborate with a network of researchers at Brazil’s National Primate Center during spring 2026.

Video: UCLA Future of History Conference

UCLA Social Sciences UCLA’s Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History and UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy hosted the “Future of History of Conference” on Nov. 3 at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center. The event featured Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch III and opening remarks by UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and […]

‘Smarter machines, wiser humans’: The future of AI and communication

L.A. labor leaders link the past and future during visit to UCLA campus

Engaging Los Angeles, Changing the World: October 2025

New data upends myths about Mexican migrant labor

Temporary Mexican labor migration to the U.S. is largely legal today due to the rapid expansion of H2-A and H2-B visas, reversing a longstanding trend of unauthorized migrant flows UCLA International Institute One of the main impacts of social science research is overturning enduring assumptions based on outdated information. Research based on the latest empirical […]