social sciences

The longtime campus leader will become UCLA’s chief academic officer effective Sept. 1, 2022.

The findings are another troubling sign of the pandemic’s uneven impact across different communities.

Researchers examined enrollment data from 1985 through 2019 for 53 medical schools.

The latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report again emphasizes the importance of minority audiences.

The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy interviewed three historical observers to help provide important context and framing for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A new study identifies a spike in China-based activity on Twitter and Wikipedia, two platforms long banned by Beijing.

Theo Henderson hopes to use the position to encourage more active, mobile research methods.

Professors continued helping us better understand our world with their research, students kept excelling and UCLA showed how it helps make Los Angeles a world-class city.

Zrinka Stahuljak embraces the role of “fixer” as she directs the center’s transformation.

An international study co-led by UCLA’s Graeme Blair found that community policing did little to improve trust in law enforcement.

Centering Tribal Stories will train University of California scholars on collaborations with Native American communities.

The awardees will conduct research in Japan, Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Rwanda, Spain, France, Mexico and the Philippines.

“It’s crucial to reach people however you can ... to tell these stories of our shared humanity,” says the newly appointed Maurice Amado Professor of Sephardic Studies.

The globetrotting UCLA professor explores shipwrecks to study the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the former Danish West Indies.

The funds will support UCLA students, policy reports and big-data projects such as the Million Dollar Hoods initiative.

A report from UCLA’s Center for Scholars and Storytellers looks at the intersection of race, class and social mobility in shows popular with teens.

In a pre-event Q&A, the entertainer and Obama White House staffer speaks about how both jobs have shaped his worldview.

The institute will conduct research into climate change, the dynamics of gender relationships and power, the arts and countering disinformation.

The Stanford professor and two colleagues were honored for demonstrating “what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments.”

A UCLA-led survey bolsters findings of an earlier analysis of online behavior during the pandemic.

Moerman united the fields of ethnography and conversation analysis, and published the seminal work “Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis.”

UCLA sociologist Patrick Heuveline’s demographic tool clarifies the impact of temporary “shocks” like epidemics and natural disasters.

The $250,000 earmarked in the 2021-22 budget is part of the state’s investment in entertainment industry’s ecosystem.

The trend reflects another consequence of climate change, according to a UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs study.

At some of the state’s public schools, nearly 1 in 5 students say they have either carried a weapon or been injured or threatened with one.