Image of Judith Baca, UCLA professor emeritus of Chicana and Chicano and Central American studies and of world arts and cultures, at the unveiling of her mural “La Memoria de la Tierra: UCLA.” Image credit: Don Liebig/ASUCLAImage credit: Don Liebig/ASUCLA

New mural captures campus history and UCLA’s future

Renowned artist and professor Judith Baca created the nearly…
Image of electrons in a Van Allen radiation belt (blue) encountering whistler waves (purple) and being sent raining toward the north pole (red). THEMIS satellites are seen near the radiation belt, while UCLA’s ELFIN hovers above Earth.Image source: Zhang, et al., Nature Communications, 2022

UCLA researchers discover source of super-fast ‘electron rain’

The downpours, which can affect satellites and space travel,…
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UCLA poised to become a world leader in hip-hop studies

Building on decades of scholarship, the campus’s new Hip…
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Innovation the Swedish way: Darja Isaksson delivers Possible Worlds lecture

By Anushka Chakrabarti In the latest installment of…

Department of African American Studies launches ‘Celebrate Us’ speaker series with talk by Kyle T. Mays

At the close of Black History Month, the UCLA Department of African…
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UCLA audience hears insights about war from Ukrainian professor as rockets fall

The president of the Kyiv School of Economics joins discussion…
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A bird’s-eye view of history

Iconic aerial photo archives from the UCLA Department of Geography…

UCLA, Howard University launch summer program on race, ethnicity and politics

The new UC-funded Mark Q. Sawyer Summer Institute will support…