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In memoriam: Linguist Lukowa Kidima

Lukowa Kidima, a linguist in the UCLA Library who also taught in the department of linguistics, passed away on August 21, 2013, at the UCLA Medical Center following a stroke. He was 63.

UCLA faculty experts advisory: U.S.-led strike against Syria

President Obama is attempting to win congressional approval for a U.S. military strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Russia and Iran have warned against any Western intervention in the conflict. UCLA has experts.

UCLA football player Nick Pasquale passes away

UCLA Athletics is saddened to learn of the tragic loss of football player Nick Pasquale, who passed away early Sunday morning after being struck by a car in his hometown of San Clemente.

How immigrant workers have contributed to the L.A. of today

John Laslett (far left) is a research professor of history and author of "Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010." Chris Tilly is a professor of urban planning and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and...

New book challenges popular understanding of 2012 presidential race

Most of what you think you know about the 2012 presidential race is wrong, suggests a forthcoming book by political scientists at UCLA and George Washington University. They argue in "The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election" that the race was influenced more by the economy than any other factor.

Student researcher seeks improved treatments for schizophrenia

When Peter Clayson was an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University majoring in psychology and Russian, he did scholarly research on the brain science behind cognitive and emotional processing — work that included participating in two...

UCLA professor is the accidental marijuana policy expert

When government, the media and the public try to make sense of drug policy in America, the expert they turn to is Mark Kleiman, public policy professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Kleiman became the go-to voice on this complex and controversial topic almost by accident.

What can Yugoslavia teach us about intervening in Syria?

Retired general Wesley Clark, the former supreme commander of NATO, led alliance military forces in the Kosovo war in 1999. He is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. This commentary appeared in Zocalo Public...
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