faculty news

Campus will be home to three Los Angeles County Vote Centers, with the first at the Hammer Museum opening Oct. 24, and home to one vote-by-mail drop box.

Voter suppression measures tend to disproportionately affect communities of color. Professors urge members of the public to take action.

A pioneer in cancer immunology, Dr. Antoni Ribas has devoted his career to developing and refining new therapies for malignant melanoma.

UCLA anthropology professor Jason De León is raising awareness about the stories of the people who migrate across the Sonoran Desert between Mexico and the U.S.

Sonja Diaz, the founding director of the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, understands how research can directly result in legislation that serves society’s needs.

UCLA’s Laura Gómez, a renowned scholar of race and ethnicity, provides essential context for today’s politics in “Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism.”

UCLA’s Semel Healthy Campus Initiative teamed up with chef Bill Yosses and the LAUSD to create an appetizing virtual summer school course.

Hundreds of Bruins answered the call to serve for the 12th annual day of service, which pivoted from in-person tasks to primarily online events and projects.

In this Q&A, he shares his priorities, his advice for new students and his thoughts on how this moment could change UCLA and all of higher education.

Courts in Texas and Pennsylvania sided with arguments made in reports prepared by members of the project.

The director of the Keck Observatory writes about how the UCLA astrophysicist overcame the doubters en route to her Nobel Prize.

Librarians and staff will share their expertise at events designed to help students, faculty and others flourish in their work and advance knowledge. 

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

Thrower, professor emeritus of geography at UCLA and a passionate world traveler, died Sept. 2 at his home in Pacific Palisades.

Ghez, who received the prize for her research into black holes, is the eighth UCLA faculty member to be named a Nobel laureate.

Discussions about the status of winter quarter instruction are underway and information will be shared as soon as it is available.

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

This year’s adapted day of service includes eight different kinds of activities, and volunteers can join in as many as they have time for.

Hirabayashi was the first professor in the United States to hold an endowed chair focused on the wartime confinement of Japanese Americans.

The linguistic anthropologist is co-editor of a new book that brings together 27 academics to analyze and understand the language of our political moment.

The late Bernice Wenzel and Wendell “Jeff” Jeffrey, both UCLA professors, were well known for their longtime commitment to the university.

A new film by two UCLA faculty members focuses on volunteers who search the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants who have died.

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

Professor Aslı Bâli offers insight into activism in Turkey by way of a social media selfie trend.

The world-renowned expert in meteorites and lunar rocks had a mineral named after him. He died at home in Los Angeles on Sept. 7.