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Don Nakanishi, 66, UCLA emeritus professor and pioneer in Asian American studies

Don Nakanishi, a UCLA scholar who gained national recognition…

UCLA mourns the passing of Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley, 92

Shapley was widely considered one of the fathers of game theory.…

From wrongfully jailed to artist, activist and UCLA professor

A new professor in UCLA’s African-American Studies department…

UCLA sociologist approaches modern Iran from ‘best of both worlds’

Perhaps Kevan Harris’ greatest good fortune was to arrive in…

Hollywood Diversity Report: Mounting evidence that more diverse casts help the bottom line

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies has published…

Antarctica could be headed for major meltdown

In the early Miocene Epoch, temperatures were 10 degrees warmer…

Uphill battle for California’s native plant species

Invasive species have moved faster than native species, colonizing…

Q&A: UCLA psychologist Robert Bjork on the science of learning

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department…

Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy, UCLA-led study says

Over the past few years, body mass index, a ratio of a person’s…

Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet

The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the…