Left image: The inaugural public event hosted by the Black Feminism Initiative, held in February, featured a conversation between local reproductive justice advocate Kimberly Durdin, left, and UCLA graduate student Ariel Hart. Top right image: Audience at the event. Bottom right from left: Kali Tambree and Jaimie Crumley, student co-coordinators of the Black Feminism Initiative.

Black Feminism Initiative meets the moment, in service of a more just future

If higher education can be thought of as a superhighway to…
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Five Black suffragists who were critical to the long battle for the vote

In her latest book, “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for…
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Single-use N95 respirators can be decontaminated and used again, study finds

N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers…
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How a UCLA scientist is using stem cells to take on COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, UCLA researchers are rising…

Shu-mei Shih named inaugural Edward W. Said Professorship in Comparative Literature

Humanities scholar Shu-mei Shih has been named the inaugural…
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Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics awarded $25M renewal from NSF

UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, through…

Teo Ruiz: Amid uncertainty and adversity, we can find strength in beauty

Teo Ruiz finds beauty in the efforts of health…
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Chemist Paula Diaconescu to lead new NSF Center for Integrated Catalysis

The National Science Foundation announced a five year, $1.8…
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UCLA’s Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights icon, eulogizes Rep. John Lewis

Acclaimed civil rights activist and UCLA College Lecturer…
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If relaxed too soon, physical distancing measures might have been all for naught

If physical distancing measures in the United States are…