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Open carry policies may work in gun control's favor

Adam Winkler is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America." This op-ed appeared in the Los Angeles Times  on Feb. 23.        What's...

Reducing water spent on irrigation

Stephanie Pincetl (left) is director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. Terri Hogue is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and the associate...

Understanding how people 'see' race could save lives

Phillip Goff is an assistant psychology professor at UCLA and director of the university’s Center for Policing Equity. Sherrilyn Ifill is president of NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Goff is leading a project to create the...

UC statement on announced AFSCME strike in March

Dwaine Duckett, vice president of UC Human Resources, issued the following statement regarding AFSCME’s announcement that it will ask patient care technical and service employees to participate in a five-day strike March 3-7.

Illusionary retirement accounts

Shlomo Benartzi is professor and co-chair of the behavioral decision-making group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and chief behavioral economist of the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance. This op-ed appeared Feb. 20,...

TV coverage misses real mission of Sochi Olympic Games

Gary Rhodes is director of the Center for Global Education at UCLA. He has co-written a chapter in a recently published book, “Olympism, Olympic Education, and Learning Legacies” (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing....

Napolitano seeks dialogue with faculty, staff

University of California President Janet Napolitano will begin sharing monthly email messages with faculty, staff and students to help foster ongoing dialogue with the UC community. The monthly emails, the first of which is slated to go out...

Defend UCLA's Pac-12 Fitness Challenge title

UCLA has crushed USC and 10 other competitors in the Pac-12 Fitness Challenge for the past two years, earning the title of fittest college in the Pac-12. This year’s challenge starts Monday, Feb. 24 and runs through Feb. 28. All Bruins are...

Bitcoin could solve copyright controversies

John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering and public policy at UCLA and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This column appeared Feb 17. on Slate.       There has been a lot of...

'Thinking L.A.': How can we make higher ed more inclusive?

At a "Thinking L.A." event co-presented by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, a panel discussed why racial diversity matters, how to bring more underrepresented students to campus and what can be done to make such students feel welcome at universities in California and around the country.

Out and About: Traditional Ladino folk  meets modern music

Enjoy a mix of music both modern and traditional when international Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) singer Sarah Aroeste performs a free concert, presented by the Los Angeles Sephardic Music Festival, at the Fowler Museum. On Wednesday, March 5, 7 p.m.,...

Four threats to American democracy

Jared Diamond is professor of geography and environmental health sciences at UCLA. His best-selling books include "The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel," which received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; "Why Is Sex Fun?"; "Collapse";...

His research clears the way to finding his true love

Back in the day, love potions had numbers.   Today, they have algorithms.   In 2012, UCLA Ph.D. student Chris McKinlay spent most of his time working on his dissertation dealing with high-dimensional clustering. In his spare time, he...
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