social sciences

UCLA faculty share their thoughts on King’s provocative rhetorical inquiry during a time that has tested our institutions and selves in unprecedented ways.

Among the questions the panelists will address: How can universities champion science and evidence while fact-based professions like journalism and medicine are under attack?

Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez won a Nobel Prize, we were the No. 1 public university again, faculty carried on with important research and students continued to achieve the amazing.

Children are less likely to earn more than their parents as adults if they are Black or grow up in the South.

Amid political turmoil, the UCLA study on kindness points to its potential for large-scale healing.

President Donald Trump and Republican candidates for Congress face an uphill battle in places hit hardest by the pandemic.

The site’s creators hope that researchers and journalists will be able to use it to track the issues and stories around hate crimes.

The longer COVID-19 continues, the more entrenched these psychological, social and societal changes are likely to be, the study authors suggest.

The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report suggests the industry must do more to meet the moment.

In a survey by UCLA and United Food and Commercial Workers OUTreach, most said their local unions take action to protect LGBTQ members.

Thrower, professor emeritus of geography at UCLA and a passionate world traveler, died Sept. 2 at his home in Pacific Palisades.

The linguistic anthropologist is co-editor of a new book that brings together 27 academics to analyze and understand the language of our political moment.

Celebrating prominent African American women who played a critical role in the fight for women’s suffrage.

“The underlying theory is identical for all conspiracy theories,” says UCLA professor Timothy Tangherlini.

The heads of academic units dedicated to social justice renew their commitment to ensuring their research, teaching and service are not complicit with the expansion of the police state.

Researchers say crime declines and trust increases when officers work alongside residents to build relationships.

UCLA’s Daniel Fessler explains why staying away from each other seems so tough, even when we know it will save lives.

Ellen DuBois’ “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote” is timed to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment

The event — hosted by The Atlantic and made possible by UCLA — convened people from the arts, academia, health, entertainment, media and more.

Researchers found that Himba have the highest rate of “extra-pair paternity.” The term refers to a case in which a child is born to a married couple, but the husband is not the biological father.

Sackett, who was one of the founders of the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has died after a long illness.

Jennifer Chun examines how labor, gender, race, class and migration intersect in today’s global economy.

Jason De León, UCLA professor of anthropology and Chicana and Chicano studies, received a 2017 MacArthur Foundation fellowship for his interdisciplinary approach.

The gift, from Jennifer and Matthew C. Harris, will support research on building more humane societies.

Schachner describes how he “accidentally” got into the field and his goals for the program.