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UCLA’s Daniel Blumstein and a global team of scientists point to environmental, population and political challenges.

“Possible Worlds,” which launches in February 2021, invites some of today’s most imaginative intellectual leaders to speak on the future of humanity.

UCLA professor Dov Waxman looks ahead at the new administration’s possible approach to peace talks, the Iran deal and other issues.

UCLA ecologist Morgan Tingley and a worldwide team of experts call for new approaches to fire management.

The gift to the Luskin School of Public Affairs will advance global understanding of what makes governments effective.

Faculty member Movses Pogossian played a lead role in developing the new collection of works by composer Tigran Mansurian.

The annual event will be held Nov. 16 to 20, featuring a global trivia contest and Conversation Café.

Sebouh David Aslanian, director of UCLA’s Armenian Studies Center, offers his thoughts and perspectives on the conflict.

The longer COVID-19 continues, the more entrenched these psychological, social and societal changes are likely to be, the study authors suggest.

Waxman is director of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.

Hawkins, who spent his entire academic career at UCLA, serving as a dedicated scholar, teacher and administrator, died June 27.

A UCLA study found that more than half of countries don’t protect workers who report discriminatory treatment based on race or ethnicity.

A new style of partnerships changes lives on the vast continent.

Karagozian shares why UCLA is so well suited to be the home of an institute like this and what initiatives are planned.

As professors were forced to change how they teach, the Fiat Lux seminars provided a platform to also change what they taught to help students understand the crisis.

The United States is one of 11 countries that do not mandate some form of paid leave at the national level.

Many forested areas used by insurgents for camouflage and cover were later decimated by illegal industries.

Sociologist Victor Agadjanian has worked as a Portuguese-Russian interpreter for Soviet medical missions in Africa and even underwent yearlong training as a witch doctor in Mozambique.

Senior economist David Shulman writes that the pandemic is “both a supply shock and a demand shock on the economy.”

The former dean of the Harvard Kennedy school argued that morals should matter in international relations.

Dov Waxman says the the center should be known for world-class scholarship on Israel, and also known for its ability to bring different sides together.

Rivlin received the UCLA Israel Studies Award for his leadership promoting tolerance.

Researchers found that Himba have the highest rate of “extra-pair paternity.” The term refers to a case in which a child is born to a married couple, but the husband is not the biological father.

今回の寄付金は、本校の人文科学部への個人からの寄付としては過去最高額となります。

“Major global gaps remain in the U.S. and elsewhere when it comes to ensuring rights for people with disabilities, migrants and members of the LGBT community,” said UCLA distinguished professor Jody Heymann.