“Zoot Suit” cast dancing at the Mark Taper Forum. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive/ UCLA Library Special Collections

Professor aims to put the history of Mexicans in Los Angeles at your fingertips

Marissa López’s app, ‘Picturing Mexican America,’ will…
Illustration of Maripau Paz, a first-generation college student, says AAP creates a welcoming environment. “During my freshman year, I was so scared,” she says. “But AAP made everything easy to understand, and soon I was able to manage the coursework on my own.”Jon Stich

To Go Far, Go Together: UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program

Assistant Professor Stephanie Correa and doctoral student Norma Sandoval are working together to advance science as well as equity at UCLA and beyond Photo

Assistant Professor Stephanie Correa and doctoral student Norma Sandoval are working together to advance science as well as equity at UCLA and beyond

Stronger Together By Jonathan Riggs Science is anything…
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DataX initiative aims to broaden UCLA expertise in data and data science

By Sean Brenner  The collection, analysis and application…

UCLA internet studies and race scholar Safiya Noble awarded MacArthur Fellowship

Professor Safiya Noble, director of an interdisciplinary…
Terence Tao in his UCLA office

Terence Tao named to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Terence Tao, UCLA professor of mathematics, has been selected…
Transfer Student Program zoom class for English 2 - Math and Science Cohort with Ms. Poston

New students get a head start at Freshman Transfer Summer Program

By Robin Migdol   Going into his freshman year…
Professor Marissa López examines Robert Becker’s "Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants if 1822-1846 from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco" in the Rare Books room at Central Library downtown. PHOTO CREDIT: Yvonne Condes

UCLA Professor Marissa López’s Summer Writers’ Workshop empowered young attendees to map out their unique vision of L.A.’s future history—and their role in it

What Gets Remembered By Jonathan Riggs There has…
Flooding in Altenahr, Germany in July 2021 Photo Credit: Martin SeifertMartin Seifert

Parched land could help contain some floods but catastrophic flooding still likely to increase

By David Colgan Evidence is mounting that climate change…
UCLA No. 1 rankings U.S. News & World Report.

UCLA ranked No. 1 public university for fifth straight year by U.S. News & World Report

UCLA has again been named the nation’s top public university…