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UCLA, Howard University launch summer program on race, ethnicity and politics
The new UC-funded Mark Q. Sawyer Summer Institute will support…
Courtesy of The Walt Disney StudiosUCLA botanist Felipe Zapata brings Colombia’s biodiversity to Academy Award winner ‘Encanto’
Felipe Zapata taps into his life’s work, as well as…
Image credit: UCLASix UCLA College faculty among 2022 Sloan Research Fellows
Editor’s note: Congratulations to all of the UCLA scholars…
Rendering by Perkins&Will, courtesy of Destination CrenshawDestination Crenshaw pays tribute to Black creativity and history in Los Angeles
UCLA faculty and alumni contributed ideas, expertise and artworks…
Photo credit: Courtesy of Ellen SlettenProfessor’s invention is a kid-friendly introduction to the chemistry of light
Ellen Sletten’s Photonbooth gives L.A. students a picture-perfect…
UCLA Labor CenterA perfect tribute: UCLA names labor center building in honor of Rev. James Lawson Jr.
By Madeline Adamo
Civil and labor rights icon and 20-year…
Photo credit: SPARC Archives/SPARCinLA.orgA Legacy in Plain Sight: The Murals of Judy Baca
By Stacey Ravel Abarbanel
In light of a retrospective at…
Photo credit: UCLAProfessor Kyle T. Mays spotlights Black–Indigenous solidarity in new book
By Jessica Wolf
In ‘An Afro-Indigenous History of the United…

TV shows with diverse writers rooms, casts resonated with pandemic audiences
By Jessica Wolf
The latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, published…

UCLA environmental experts featured in PBS series about sustainability
Faculty and others play a major role in shaping stories of accountability…

