
Creative writing at UCLA: not just for English majors anymore
Starting in Fall 2016, non-English majors will for the first…

A ‘black’-sounding name makes people imagine a larger, more dangerous person, UCLA study shows
In a study exploring racial bias and how people use their mind’s-eye…

Q&A with UCLA history professor Joan Waugh on baseball in America’s Gilded Age
UCLA history professor Joan Waugh is one of the country’s pre-eminent…

Kelly Lytle Hernandez wins American Historical Association award
Associate professor of history Kelly Lytle Hernandez has won…

Scientists grow organic semiconductor crystals vertically for first time
Our smartphones, tablets, computers and biosensors all have improved…

UCLA’s Bird Genoscape Project to aid conservation efforts for North American birds threatened by climate change
UCLA researchers announced today the Bird Genoscape Project,…

Center shatters myth of ‘quiet’ Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps
With help from elderly survivors of the World War II internment…

Measuring the sound of angels singing
UCLA professor Sharon Gerstel studies how Byzantine-era churches…

Gift to fund graduate research in leading center for population research
A gift from a long-time sociology professor will strengthen graduate…

UCLA anthropologist knows her capuchin monkeys
For 25 years, UCLA professor of anthropology Susan Perry has…