Catherine Opie delivered the 2017 Walter Annenberg Lecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art and also was recently named to the board of directors for the Mike Kelly Foundation.
Each is among 14 scientists nationally to be named by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as HHMI professors. UCLA is tied for second in the number of 2017 recipients.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and other experts on a Zócalo/UCLA panel shared new directions researchers are exploring and emphasized the importance of open communication.
Edward L. Wright, a professor who holds UCLA’s David Saxon Presidential Chair in Physics, shared in the prize, which honors major insights into the deepest questions of the universe.
UCLA professor Suk-Young Kim tells Zócalo about the suffering of the North Korean people and what she wishes President Trump knew about the country’s people.
Jennifer Steinkamp’s “Winter Fountains” feature animations of nature, ethereal rocks and lightning and will line the Benjamin Franklin Parkway beginning Nov. 30.
A new book co-authored by UCLA professor of urban planning Chris Tilly challenges the “myth of inevitability” for poor working conditions in America’s largest employment sector.
Aslı Bâli was recognized for her work challenging the travel ban of the current presidential administration and for her work protecting academic freedom.