One of UCLA’s largest-ever graduating classes will celebrate commencement on Friday, June 10, as the campus’s main ceremony returns to storied Pauley Pavilion for the first time since 2019.
Commencement speakers include Katelyn Ohashi, Nancy Pelosi, Muntu Davis, Isabel Wilkerson, George Takei, Angela F. Williams, Susan Ettner, Troy Kotsur, Maria Rosario Jackson and Mercedes Dorame.
The Ungovernable State? The latest issue of the UCLA publication Blueprint examines some of the governance challenges confronting California. Featured research covers the recall, initiative and referendum, the right to vote, policing in crisis response and more.
Spanning work that could help Los Angeles meet skyrocketing demands for housing to research that uses big data to help build a more just society for communities of color to multiple projects related to climate change, UCLA faculty are doing work that has clear and immediate benefits to local, state, national and international communities.
Ahmanise Sanati has worked at the county’s Twin Towers Correctional Facility for 11 years, bringing books and articles to those who are incarcerated there.
For her work, the Luskin School of Public Affairs named Sanati the Joseph A. Nunn Social Welfare Alumnus of the Year. The award recognizes social work professionals who have contributed leadership and service to the school, university or community, and who have distinguished themselves through commitment and dedication to a particular area of social work.
UCLA infectious disease expert Dr. Anne Rimoin says the risk for most people is very low.
Rimoin has been director of the UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health and is the founder of the UCLA–DRC Health Research and Training Program based at UCLA in Los Angeles and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
A team of researchers at UCLA Health received a $1 million research grant from the American Heart Association to study the cardiovascular effects of long COVID.
The Center for AIDS Research will strengthen and amplify the impact of ongoing research at both UCLA and Charles R. Drew University, as well as forming new partnerships with community groups across Los Angeles and in nations that are severely affected by HIV.
Adolescent females were especially vulnerable, UCLA-led analysis finds.
Data from 44 hospitals in 26 states show that suicide or self-injury and depressive disorders were the primary mental health reasons children received emergency department or hospital inpatient care after statewide school closures were enacted during the first part of the COVID-19 pandemic.
