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Getting a global grip on gasoline taxes

Michael Ross, professor of political science at UCLA, spent the past four years studying fossil fuel policies across 157 countries. The analysis was published in Nature Energy.

An L.A. civics lesson from inside City Hall

Three students from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs are gaining real-world experience this year as David Bohnett Fellows working in the offices of Mayor Eric Garcetti at L.A. City Hall.

Jan. 23: The challenges of reporting on the rise of China

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Edward Wong, Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times. Topics he has covered since 2008, including Chinese politics, foreign policy, propaganda, the environment, and human rights.

Jan.19: Zika virus and mother-to-child transmission

Karin Nielsen, M.D., M.P.H., UCLA Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Director of the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, will present a seminar entitled “Zika virus: Mother to child transmission — what is known to date?

Jan. 11: Screening of '13th'

Ava DuVernay’s stirring documentary takes its title from the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery yet included a clause that laid the foundation for the long history of racial inequality in America’s prison industrial complex.

Jan. 17: Presidential election postmortem

As Donald Trump begins his presidency, UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck joins other scholars in dissecting the contentious 2016 presidential election.

Jan. 7-8: Simone Leigh in a performative lecture

On the final weekend of her Hammer Project exhibition, Simone Leigh is joined by Rizvana Bradley, assistant professor of film and media studies and African-American studies at Yale, for an improvisational exchange about black radical political, literary and artistic traditions.
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