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Professor Michael Rothberg, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, examines how people and societies recall traumatic historical events.

A Bruin guide to this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

A Bruin guide to this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

Professors Heather Maynard, Harryette Mullen and Daniel Treisman are among the 270 inductees for 2023.

The honorees are Michael Berry, Scott Cummings, Prineha Narang, Alex Purves and Michael Rothberg.

The age of streaming rediscovers the works of Octavia Butler.

Ada Lovelace published the first description of a computer program; a UCLA doctoral student is using AI to reveal her forgotten story.

In honor of 3/14, we spotlight the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Indo-European Studies.

How UCLA became a cool setting for a new crop of fiction.

Morris earned his bachelor’s degree at UCLA and went on to become a campus leader for seven decades.

UCLA staff members recommend works for education and entertainment to celebrate throughout November.

Stern, who will succeed longtime dean David Schaberg on Nov. 1, spoke with us about this new chapter for her and the division.

A reinvented UCLA journal casts new light on an old world.

UCLA archaeologists Giorgio Buccellati and his wife, Marilyn, have traveled together on a 60-year journey that led them to the hidden treasures of a lost city in Syria.

Armenian language scholar Hagop Kouloujian has been appointed to the position for a five-year term.

Stern, currently the associate dean for the humanities at the University of Michigan, begins the new post Nov. 1.

A Bruin guide to some of this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

The Shiao Yi Wuxia Collection includes manuscripts, photographs and other ephemera.

UCLA scholars teach hip-hop as the most popular form of American contemporary poetry.

The professor’s true crime tale set in medieval France was finally turned into a film 15 years after publishing.

Marissa López’s app, “Picturing Mexican America,” will display archival images of 19th century Mexican L.A. connected to the user’s location.

Barbara Fuchs will be joined by Spanish President Pedro Sánchez at an event on July 22.

UCLA experts say while it’s a positive step, real progress on countering stereotypes and building equity domestically and around the world will take much more work.

Ridley was the first woman to chair the modern incarnation of UCLA’s Academic Senate and only the third woman to become a full professor in UCLA’s English department.

Courses will pair social justice teaching with community engagement and instruction in data literacy, statistics and computational research methods.