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For half a century, the center has been advocating for, and listening to, people in indigenous communities in Los Angeles and beyond.

Program brings the public together with students and 30 leading minds from across campus to engage in interdisciplinary conversations around 10 essential topics.

UCLA students partnered with private tech company on project that explored public health outcomes in L.A. and Long Beach port communities.

The weeklong course was part of UCLA’s Disability Inclusion Lab, an initiative designed to reframe cultural understanding and practices around the concept of disability.

Schachner describes how he “accidentally” got into the field and his goals for the program.

The degree will help position graduates to be more competitive for graduate programs and performance careers.

Q&A with Miriam Posner, assistant professor of information studies and digital humanities, on the growth of museums putting more of their collections online.

Harold Torrence, associate professor of linguistics in the UCLA College, became enamored of linguistics as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching provides services and resources for faculty of all teaching styles and needs.

Students in the school’s first Disability Inclusion Lab course will produce six short documentary films that will premiere on campus May 30.

The UCLA Social Sciences LRW Big Data Research Partnership will link undergraduates and graduate students with paid internships in data science.

Shane Campbell-Staton says “superheroes give us the opportunity to discuss where the science meets the fiction, and how scientific innovation influences our lives.”

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ Latin American Cities Initiative brings urban planning students, educators and practitioners into a multinational conversation.

UCLA Arts’ “10 Questions” hybrid class/public lecture series had professors, students and the audience pondering what is space, freedom, and even a university.

UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy hosts new course for graduate students across campus interested in battling housing injustice.

The UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program hosted 40 students from across the country last summer in an effort to help increase diversity in the field.

Units across campus will host events on global issues, international careers and study abroad.

Recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards were honored by the Academic Senate at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching awards ceremony.

A class created by adjunct professor David Leaf will tell the band’s story through film, video and interviews with music industry executives.

The program is both an upper-level undergraduate course and public lecture series that brings together 40 leading minds to discuss 10 timely and fundamental questions.

New major is an extension of the jazz studies concentration, established in 1996 by jazz icon Kenny Burrell.

In this Q&A, director of the UCLA Game Lab Eddo Stern discusses the lab’s origins and what projects they’re sending to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Tribal Leadership and Community Development Certificate began with 23 students and now has more than 200 enrollees.

Students at the National McNair Scholars Conference had the opportunity to present research, learn about the application processes and network with professors.

To earn the certificate, students must complete five courses in environmental law and produce a supervised research paper.