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During the quiet of the pandemic, UCLA evaluated ever-shifting realities and forged a new path forward that may change education forever.

The mentorship-based initiative creates student research opportunities and serves as a model for diversifying the academic pipeline.

UCLA’s Terry Kramer says that promoting innovation while protecting consumers will require avoiding oversimplified, absolutist positions.

The new department will offer a wider, more holistic course of study, focusing on the breadth of languages and cultures across Europe and beyond.

UCLA leadership, faculty, staff and students displayed the resiliency, creativity and ingenuity that embody our values.

The two-year online program will be the first of its kind in the University of California system.

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

The name “UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano and Central American Studies” was approved for the 2019-20 academic year.

A new update from campus leadership outlines the progress that has been made and highlights several new initiatives.

Executives, journalists and even a Bruin football player are pursuing a degree that provides professionals a leg up in legal issues.

Binder co-founded and was the driving force behind UCLA Law’s trailblazing experiential education program from its inception in 1970.

Led by Sarah Haley, professor of gender and African American studies, the mission is to support and develop Black feminist scholarship and ideas among the campus community.

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

The prize from the Gold Shield Alumnae awards $30,000 to an exceptional professor with a record of undergraduate teaching, research and university service.

Plans include a Black Student Resource Center, new faculty positions, fellowships, fundraising and research support.

As the adversity of the pandemic loomed over us, it was met in force by the ways students, professors, staff and alumni rose to meet this historic moment.

UCLA will begin to offer a number of in-person, on-campus courses, as well as limited on-campus student housing.

In recent years the department has been trying to make labs more engaging; safer-at-home orders demonstrated the benefits of letting students design their own experiments.

Michelle Liu Carriger shares how she used UCLA’s Fiat Lux seminar program to create a class that helped students understand life during quarantine through an artistic lens.

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 heads of academic units dedicated to social justice renew their commitment to ensuring their research, teaching and service are not complicit with the expansion of the police state.

In an open letter, deans and faculty members recommit to promoting diversity.

The Library Prize honors students who have demonstrated remarkable intellectual curiosity paired with the skills and capacities to conduct meaningful research.

“Teaching is all about the students. We must challenge them, support them, make them feel connected to the class and give them opportunities to do amazing things.”

The UCLA center’s role in preserving the experiences, struggles and accomplishments of Asian American peoples is vital in a city that is home to so many Asian communities.