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How Iceland’s Viking heritage helped salvage its economy
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UCLA faculty voice: The curse of abundant resources
Economist Jerry Nickelsburg on how not leveraging the windfall of abundant natural resources into investments into education and infrastructure limits economic growth.
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UCLA faculty voice: L.A. growth should be along Wilshire corridor
Architecture professor Thom Mayne says that adding density around Wilshire Boulevard could accommodate 1 million new people in Los Angeles while promoting sustainability.
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UCLA faculty voice: New parklands and transit won't matter if L.A. doesn't solve water woes
As life-changing as these new projects that voters approved on Nov. 8 might be, one of the region’s most critical infrastructure needs is still being largely ignored: water.
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UCLA faculty voice: Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios
James Gelvin looks beyond the expected fall of Mosul and explores some possible paths that the Islamic State could take following the loss of the stronghold.
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UCLA faculty voice: Can Google searches predict elections?
Stuart Gabriel notes that the unusual 2016 election cycle reveals the shortcomings of using such an indicator.
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UCLA faculty voice: Campaign ads sample candidate’s own words to great effect
Lynn Vavreck notes that ads using someone’s own words against them register as more memorable and truthful to voters, a strategy Clinton has used several times.
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UCLA faculty voice: We can make medicine affordable
Distinguished professor of public health Jonathan Fielding says commonsense fixes to Medicare and FDA drug approval can lower the cost of lifesaving drugs.
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UCLA faculty voice: The dangerously shaky science behind some forensic evidence
Law school dean Jennifer Mnookin shares findings of a new report that found many forensic techniques do not pass scientific muster.
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UCLA faculty voice: L.A. can’t follow California’s lead on water conservation
Mark Gold criticizes the state’s decision to establish voluntary water conservation targets, and praises the continued drought reduction mandates of Los Angeles.
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UCLA faculty voice: At poor schools, English learners lack the resources to succeed
Education professor Carola Suárez-Orozco pushes for revamping how teachers and administrators are trained to teach English language learners in K-12 schools.
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UCLA faculty voice: Relationship advice from the government doesn’t help low-income couples
Partners not earning much money are likely to struggle because they face challenges outside of their marriage, not communication within their marriage.
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UCLA faculty voice: The death of the glamorous Old West
History professor Stephen Aron examines how more accurate and nuanced depictions of the time period are pushing out the idealized depictions of Wild West films and literature.
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UCLA faculty voice: Opioid addiction is too common for continued inaction
Law professor Jill Horwitz discusses the high rate of opioid addiction, and analyzes the ineffective state laws that have tried to curb the pervasive disease.
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UCLA faculty voice: What the UN must do to wipe out cholera in Haiti
Because the U.N. peacekeepers introduced cholera to Haiti, it’s imperative that the United Nations do whatever it can to prevent the disease from further ravaging the country.
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UCLA faculty voice: We can’t rely on luck to counter public health threats
Professor Jonathan Fielding writes that without the necessary funds, fighting Zika, Ebola and other infectious diseases is a losing battle.
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UCLA faculty voice: Give a kidney, get a kidney
Dr. Jeffrey Veale writes that a program pioneered at UCLA could encourage more donations and reduce the number of deaths of those waiting for transplants.
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UCLA faculty voice: I’m a Republican but I’m voting for Hillary Clinton
David Shulman outlines why he will reluctantly vote for a Democrat in November, how Donald Trump betrays American values and what Republicans need to do to regain their party.
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UCLA faculty voice: How Yahoo destroyed its value
UCLA Anderson’s George Geis writes that the company’s poor merger and acquisition practices ultimately led to its purchase by Verizon for a quarter of what Yahoo has spent on past acquisitions.
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UCLA faculty voice: Don’t change the Orange Line to rail — improve it first
The associate director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies says the bus rapid transit line serving the San Fernando Valley has in part been a victim of its own success.
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UCLA faculty voice: Jay-Z’s ‘Spiritual’ is a modern song of sorrow
Professor Shana Redmond connects the language and themes of slave narratives with the song Jay-Z released in response to the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
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UCLA faculty voice: Don’t let unqualified doctors perform eye surgery
Dr. Bartly Mondino of the Jules Stein Eye Institute writes that a proposal in the state legislature to permit optometrists to perform eye surgeries risks far too much harm.
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UCLA faculty voice: Lamenting the murder of one of the Sabri Brothers
Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl on how Sufi music — and especially the Sabri Brothers — have been bridging the divide between Islam and the West.
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UCLA faculty voice: The financial price of forgetting bad times
Professors Sholmo Benartzi and Alan Castel say that as people age, they tend to focus on positive memories and those blindspots to past negatives can have bad financial consequences.
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UCLA faculty voice: Time for a ‘no buy’ list on guns
Law professor Adam Winkler writes that it’s time for Congress to pass a law that safeguards due process and forbids suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.
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UCLA faculty voice: It’s time to acknowledge the genocide of California’s Indians
History professor Benjamin Madley details how the state enacted policies that clearly meet the U.N. definition of genocide.
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UCLA faculty voice: How Iceland’s Viking heritage helped salvage its economy
Economist Jerry Nickelsburg on how the Nordic nation overcame a deep financial crisis through improved regulation, higher bank equity requirements, and strict financial stress tests.
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UCLA faculty voice: How California created a road map for America’s interstates
UCLA Daniel J.B. Mitchell Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus in UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
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Four threats to American democracy
Jared Diamond is professor of geography and environmental health sciences at UCLA. His best-selling books include "The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel," which received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; "Why Is Sex Fun?"; "Collapse";...
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UCLA faculty voice: We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem
Miriam Posner writes about how get-girls-to-code initiatives that aim to fix tech’s gender imbalance may unintentionally help reinforce it.
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What the history of slavery can teach us about slavery today
Brenda Stevenson is a UCLA professor of history and African-American studies, as well as author of "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and the forthcoming book "What is Slavery?" This op-ed appeared Aug. 19 on the...
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What makes lone-wolf terrorists so dangerous?
Jeffrey Simon is a visiting lecturer of political science at UCLA, an expert on terrorism and political violence, and author of a newly released book, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat” (Prometheus, 2013). This...
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UCLA faculty voice: Current artificial hearts are too big for too many smaller people
Dr. Mario Deng writes about a new smaller artificial heart that could holds promise for smaller-sized people, including children.
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UCLA faculty voice: Airlines should use sealed-bid auctions to deal with overbooking
Professor Christopher Tang proposes a system in which the passenger who submits the lowest bid will be compensated for giving up their seat and assistance making new travel plans.
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Nation's founders balanced gun rights with public safety
Law Professor Adam Winkler is a specialist in American constitutional law whose work has been cited and quoted in landmark Supreme Court cases. His book, "Gun Fight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America" (W.W. Norton,...
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Is Los Angeles on the cusp of another housing bubble?
UCLA Anderson Forecast economist William Yu writes in the Los Angeles Times that examining real estate data patterns shows that L.A. is not on the verge of a crash in home prices.
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UCLA faculty voice: Automation, not free trade, is bigger threat to American jobs
Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.
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A UCLA doctor’s journey from patient to physician
Cardiologist Leigh Reardon’s experiences as a child open-heart surgery patient taught him an empathy that creates a uniquely open relationship with his patients.
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UCLA faculty voice: Tolls are the only way to fix L.A.’s traffic
Herbie Huff notes that dynamic tolling, which varies toll prices to sync with demand, is a far cheaper option for easing congestion than adding lanes to freeways.
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What’s the difference between political grassroots and big-interest Astroturf?
UCLA professor Edward Walker explains how corporations — from Verizon to Wal-Mart — manufacture citizen lobbyists.
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Delivering health care to reluctant patients
A UCLA alum draws on his experience to advocate for speaking patients' language and bringing health fairs to the community.
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From the Freedom Rides to the L.A. City Council
UCLA alumnus Robert Farrell writes about how desegregating a Houston coffee shop helped change America — and his life.
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How professors can get publicity for their scholarly books
Michael Chwe is a professor in the political science department. His recent book, "Jane Austen, Game Theorist," has received widespread attention, but it wasn't by accident. Here he shares his recipe for getting media attention for a book about...
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Q&A: Critical issues facing aging Americans
Three UCLA geriatrics and gerontology faculty members are among those at the forefront of the effort to change the way medicine is delivered to an aging population.
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The science behind your kid’s obsession with ‘Frozen’
A UCLA psychologist and her sister explain why Disney struck billion-dollar gold with Elsa, Anna and ‘Let It Go.’
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UCLA faculty voice: What can be done about the lone wolf terrorist threat?
Jeffrey Simon writes that the threat can never be completely eliminated but that there are ways law enforcement authorities can use technology to help mitigate it.
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