The Los Angeles Times highlighted the return of UCLA’s Festival of Preservation, a free biennial showcase of newly restored films from the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Held at the Hammer Museum at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater, the festival features a wide range of restored works spanning Hollywood classics, international cinema, television, documentaries and animation. Read more about UCLA from the New York Times, USA Today and others.

More highlights from UCLA in the News: May 29, 2026

‘Hacks’ and the case for age-gap friendship | New York Times

“I love that they can learn from each other,” said Jaimie Krems, director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research. Their friendship is evidence “that people can change, people can grow and people can see other points of view,” she added. That kind of growth is what can make cross-generational connection so uniquely rewarding, according to Krems and others who study friendship — yet American society makes those ties difficult to find.

Election-related decisions coming from SCOTUS. What to know | USA Today

It’s not the number of election-related cases the court is deciding that stands out to Rick Hasen, an elections expert and law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “There have been terms where there have been lots of cases on elections,” he said.  ”What’s unusual about this is that they’re having an immediate effect on elections.”

The latest on the war in Iran | KCAL-TV

“It’s being described as an M.O.U., which is a memorandum of understanding. It’s basically both sides agreeing on what the outstanding issues are and charting a way to address them. It does not mean they have been addressed. It does not mean that the war is over,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd.

The latest on the Los Angeles mayor’s race | LAist’s “AirTalk”

“What we have here is a relatively unpopular mayor. In the survey we did at UCLA two months ago, 40 percent of our respondents were undecided. Three-quarters of them are now deciding and they’re deciding between someone other than the incumbent mayor,” said UCLA’s Zev Yaroslavsky (approx. 4:25 mark).

Patagonia in the wilderness with suit against drag queen, legal experts say | SFGate

Mark McKenna, a professor of law at the UCLA Institute of Technology, Law and Policy, said that while the company may have basic legal standing, the likelihood of a consumer getting confused between the two brands would be slim, especially since the merchandise is directly connected to the Pattie Gonia persona that the company has not taken issue with.