Opinion + Voices

Courtney Lyder is dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, professor of medicine and public health and executive director of the UCLA Health System Patient Safety Institute and assistant director of the UCLA Health System. This column originally...

David Newman is a professor of politics and government and dean of the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. Newman is at UCLA this week to participate in the 29th annual meeting of the Association of Israel...

Abigail C. Saguy is an associate professor of sociology and of gender studies at UCLA. She is the author of "What’s Wrong With Fat?" This piece appeared in Time magazine on June 24, 2013.    While the decision of the American...

Gene Block is chancellor of UCLA. This op-ed appeared originally in the Huffington Post on June 24, 2013.    Monday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court may leave us all waiting to see what the case of a Texas woman challenging her...

Michael Chwe is a professor in the political science department. His recent book, "Jane Austen, Game Theorist," has received widespread attention, but it wasn't by accident. Here he shares his recipe for getting media attention for a book about...

Despite the conservative tilt of the Roberts Supreme Court, gay rights supporters expect the justices to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. But Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's record on gay rights is hardly uniform.

Wesley K. Clark, a retired Army general and former NATO supreme allied commander for Europe, is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. This op-ed appeared originally in The New York Times on June 17,...

John Villasenor is a professor of professor of electrical engineering and public policy at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. He writes about the intersection of technology, policy and the law. This column...

Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This column appeared in the Huffington Post on June 7, 2013.      In the...

General Wesley Clark (ret.) is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed appeared originally in the Washington Post on June 6.       President Obama’s talks with Chinese President Xi...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection."As we've gotten to this sort of zero-tolerance mentality, that kind of policy has been especially applied to poor kids...

Shlomo Benartzi (far left) is professor at the Anderson School of Management. John Payne is at Duke University, where he is the Joseph J. Ruvane Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, as well as professor of...

David N. Myers teaches Jewish history and chairs the UCLA History Department. This op-ed originally appeared in the Jewish Journal on May 29, 2013.     With Eric Garcetti’s election on May 21, the mayors of the three largest cities...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.     "Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us.” Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of...

Joanna Schwartz is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law, who has a forthcoming article in the New York University Law Review that shows how medical malpractice claims help play a role in improving patient safety. This op-ed was...

Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of the forthcoming book, "Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm," by San Diego State University Press. This op-ed was...

Dr. Susan Partovi is a family medicine physician and a volunteer instructor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the medical director for Homeless Health Care Los Angeles. This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on May...

Mark Wise, trained at the United States Air Force Academy as an Army infantry officer, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as a platoon leader, where he suffered severe injuries when an explosive device detonated just inches away from him. He...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection. "We're always counting on science to tell us where we came from." David Paige, professor in the UCLA Department of...

Peter Nonacs is a professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at UCLA. He studies the evolution of social behavior across species, ranging from viruses, to insects, to mammals and even occasionally humans. His commentary appeared...

John Villasenor is professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This op-ed was posted on Slate on April 23,...

John Ullmen John Ullmen is a lecturer on leadership at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and overseas MotivationRules.com. Dr.Mark Goulston, is a business psychiatrist, executive consultant, keynote speaker and co-founder of Heartfelt...

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is a distinguished professor and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Carola Suárez-Orozco is professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Institute for...

Jeffrey Simon is a visiting lecturer of political science at UCLA, an expert on terrorism and political violence, and author of a newly released book, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat” (Prometheus, 2013). This...

Kent Wong is director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches courses in labor studies and Asian American studies. He wrote this commentary at the invitation of the Los Angeles Times, which asked Angelenos what the next L.A....