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UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability receives $1.5 million pledge from founding director
The gift from Richard and Linda Turco will support students…

UCLA, Howard University launch summer program on race, ethnicity and politics
The new UC-funded Mark Q. Sawyer Summer Institute will support…

UCLA botanist Felipe Zapata brings Colombia’s biodiversity to Academy Award winner ‘Encanto’
Felipe Zapata taps into his life’s work, as well as…

Six UCLA College faculty among 2022 Sloan Research Fellows
Editor’s note: Congratulations to all of the UCLA scholars…

Destination Crenshaw pays tribute to Black creativity and history in Los Angeles
UCLA faculty and alumni contributed ideas, expertise and artworks…

Professor’s invention is a kid-friendly introduction to the chemistry of light
Ellen Sletten’s Photonbooth gives L.A. students a picture-perfect…

A perfect tribute: UCLA names labor center building in honor of Rev. James Lawson Jr.
By Madeline Adamo
Civil and labor rights icon and 20-year…

A Legacy in Plain Sight: The Murals of Judy Baca
By Stacey Ravel Abarbanel
In light of a retrospective at…

Professor Kyle T. Mays spotlights Black–Indigenous solidarity in new book
By Jessica Wolf
In ‘An Afro-Indigenous History of the United…

TV shows with diverse writers rooms, casts resonated with pandemic audiences
By Jessica Wolf
The latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, published…