The New York Times wrote: In a city with so many great museums, the one that most frequently surprises me is the Fowler, on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, whose collection display is also dense with Yoruba woodcarvings, Alaskan headdresses and Haitian ceramics. It began as a modest basement display of “ethnic arts and technology,” but successive donations, above all a copious gift in the 1960s of African and Oceanic objects amassed by the pharmaceutical baron Henry Wellcome, have made it one of America’s foremost institutions of non-Western culture. Read more about UCLA in today’s KCBS-TV, LAist’s “AirTalk” and other outlets.
UCLA in the News: Feb. 3, 2026
Can an AI tool help students disagree better? | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Abigail Saguy, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, was a little bit nervous to teach a course called “Sociology of Gender” again. She’d last done so in 2019, and found the atmosphere increasingly combative, saying student activists in her course had attempted to “police” her readings and word choice. So in 2024 she tried something new: She got students to debate each other virtually, using a new tool called Sway.
Continuing tensions between the U.S. and Iran | KCBS-TV
“The talks are preconditioned on three demands which President Trump has made. Two of those three is a non-starter for the Iranian government. So, he wants an end to all enrichment, all nuclear activity, on Iranian soil, which there is room to negotiate something there,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd.
How trailblazing Tom Bradley became LA’s longest-serving mayor | LAist’s “AirTalk”
“There were two great mayors in the 20th Century in Los Angeles. One was Fletcher Bowron, who was the World War II mayor, who was elected in the recall election in 1937 and served until 1953. So he was a bridge from the early part of the 1900s to the latter part. And the second one is Tom Bradley,” said UCLA’s Zev Yaroslavsky (approx. 4:25 mark).
