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Racial profiling lives on

Three UCLA School of Law professors, Devon Carbado, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw and Cheryl Harris, co-director of the Critical Race Studies Program, have cowritten an article about how despite a recent federal court decision banning stop-and-frisk...

M.B.A. students mix sports fandom and business smarts

Source: Los Angeles Sports Council Earlier this year city officials announced that Los Angeles would try to become the site for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But to win the right to host the city’s third Olympics, L.A. boosters must first...

Students' assignment: Help Fijians get clean drinking water

As students listen in, engineering professor Eric Hoek, (center in plaid shirt) advise Fijian villagers on how water can be transported safely from a spring deep in the jungle. Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and...

L.A. Laker brings cheer to sick children

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin basketball standout, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Tuesday to visit sick kids and cancer patients. Farmar signed autographs, gave out gift bags and posed with patients, like Chico, 9,...

UCLA's oral historians tell L.A.'s story with community voices

Teresa Barnett and her staff of three at UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research have their work cut out for them: Document the history of Los Angeles and its environs. Since its founding in 1959, the center has amassed oral histories...

With fewer vaccinations, is your child's school safe?

Nina Shapiro, a professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and director of pediatric otolaryngology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the author of "Take a Deep Breath: Clear the Air for the Health of Your...

UCLA Writers Faire

Spend a day picking the brains of screenwriters and creative writers who now teach the art of writing. The UCLA Extension free-to-all Writers Faire will be held in the Young Hall courtyard at UCLA on August 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This festive day...

Enjoy a musical afternoon at the Fowler

The grassy slopes of the Fowler’s UCLA Arts Council Amphitheater will be the place to be Sunday from 4-5 p.m. to see Noah and the MegaFauna, a nine-piece band that mixes indie folk with jazz and big band swing to create music...

UC, CSU explore ideas to share services and save money

Leaders of the Working Smarter initiative, which already has saved the University of California more than $289 million, took a big step forward recently when they and counterparts from California State University recently hosted a conference to...

UCLA rated one of the most sustainable universities in nation

UCLA is tied for first with 21 other campuses as one of the most sustainable universities in the country, after receiving a perfect score in the 2014 edition of the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll. The list includes three other UCs.

A 100th birthday salute to a champion in film

With as many accolades and laurels that have been showered on legendary film producer-director Stanley Kramer during his lifetime, would one more tribute — this one to celebrate his 100th birthday posthumously — make much of a...

Anderson gets down to business in cultivating student diversity

For UC Merced sophomore Luis Fernando Gonzalez Haro, spending just two weeks at UCLA last month "opened up my world and what I can do and be."   Raised in the small town of Gustine in California’s Central Valley, where his family moved from...

Navigating the medical ethics maze

From life’s beginning to its end, and at all points in between, there are opportunities for vexing ethical dilemmas to arise. And in this era of advanced technology, those opportunities are on the rise.

Great Recession saw more Americans move locally

A recent study by Michael A. Stoll, professor and chair of public policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, looked at residential mobility in the U.S. over the last three decades, focusing particularly on the last decade.

UCLA data reveal growing disparity between L.A. communities

Local elected officials recently joined professors from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and leaders of the Los Angeles Urban League and California Business Roundtable for a discussion about the unbalanced economic recovery being experienced by low-income communities throughout Los Angeles.
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