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Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez corrects the revisionist history of Operation Wetback, which in fact eased immigration law enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

UCLA's Congo Basin Institute led a team of UCLA and Cameroonian students into a rain forest in central Africa to reopen a field station in a jungle with a thriving ecosystem with birds, elephants and monkeys.

The Hammer Museum presents a community gathering to explore nonviolent tactics, street smarts and strategies with Reverend James Lawson and Nadine Bloch from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 9, at the Wiltern Theater.

Five young people trained as health ambassadors by the Dream Resource Center, a project of the UCLA Labor Center, will be kicking off a statewide wellness tour focused on immigrant health beginning Saturday, March 25, and continuing through May.

The UCLA Labor Center will build upon its Parent Worker Project, training a cohort of janitors to become advocates for their children’s education through a new initiative with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

The UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration will host “The Global Refugee Crisis” on Friday, April 7, from 9:00 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. in the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center.

UCLA School of Law professor Kal Raustiala has been cited by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in a dissenting opinion in a copyright dispute.

A few weeks ago, UCLA head football coach Jim Mora took time out of his busy schedule recruiting athletes and hiring staff to fly to Africa on a mission that had nothing to do with sports.

In L.A. and other cities, inequities persist not just in the ability to get around, but in access to parks and open spaces that are conducive to outdoor activity.

HOOLIGAN Theater Company presents "Footloose", the story of Ren and his mother as they move to a small farming town.

On Thursday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater, the Hammer presents “The Not So Silver Screen: Black Women in Media.”

A UCLA study has traced the phenomenon to the same neurons that go awry during Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Tourette’s syndrome.

On April 9 from 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., in collaboration with Westwind, UCLA’s student-run journal of the arts, the Fowler Museum presents an opportunity learn about different types of poetry.

Korean Culture Night is dedicated to expressing and sharing the Korean culture and continuing the great tradition of diversity on the UCLA campus.

Justin Cho was experiencing a rare form of epileptic seizures caused by a lesion in his brain; UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital used a new minimally invasive approach to stop them.

UCLA’s postdoctoral scholars were recently honored for their important contributions to the university’s interrelated missions of research, teaching and public service at the 2017 Postdoctoral Scholars Reception and Awards Ceremony.

John Duncan, professor of Korean in UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, is presented with the Yongjae Award, established in 1995 to honor Yongjae Paek Nak-jun, a former minister of education during the Korean War.

UCLA Department of Architecture and Design lecturer, Wonne Ickx, along with curator and art critic Ruth Estévez, curated “Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth,” an exhibition on view at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.

Dr. Janet Pregler, director of the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center, has been named a “Women of the Year” honoree by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

UCLA-led study showed also that preventive antidepressants didn’t affect risk of postpartum depression in pregnant women with previous history of major depressive disorder.

Noriko Akatsuka, who established the foundation for the Asian linguistics program in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, passed away on Oct. 17, 2016, in Santa Monica at the age of 79.

The program drew from the expertise of more than two dozen speakers from film and television studios, law firms, talent agencies, new media powerhouses and venture capital companies.

UCLA Luskin adjunct professor emerita of social welfare JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez has been recognized for her contributions to gerontology and geriatrics education.

Findings in a UCLA study suggest potential strategies to combat other diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS.

On March 20, the Regents of the University of California provided the following guidance for how university employees should respond to possible immigration enforcement actions.