The UCLA professor is preparing to begin a one-year term as president of the American Educational Research Association. In a recent interview, he discussed the importance of teaching Black history and the reasons behind some people’s efforts to restrict such teaching.
Near daily coverage of another shooting event has everyone asking: “What can be done?” The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research brought together a group of researchers, advocates and community leaders working to understand and stem gun violence, and sharing new research and perspectives to inform policy and programs to increase public safety.
Featured speaker, California Attorney General Rob Bonta shared his vision for how policy can make a difference in the state.
UCLA Engineering’s Master of Science in Engineering Online program, or MSOL, has consistently been ranked first or second in the country by U.S. News since 2014, outperforming some of the most competitive programs at private and public universities. “Many of our graduates are now in leadership roles, engineering change to solve societal problems and improve quality of life for generations to come” said Jenn-Ming Yang, the faculty director of the MSOL program and UCLA Engineering’s associate dean for international initiatives and online programs.
The nine-member Reparations Task Force, commissioned by the California Legislature and seated in 2021, quickly determined that community input was vital to its work. So it turned to the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, where public policy and urban planning professor Michael Stoll directs the Black Policy Project. A small team of UCLA graduate students gathered community input and delivered their findings to the state task force.
The first-ever UCLA EV Readiness Plan provides a framework to increase the number of electric vehicles commuting to campus. The plan also outlines how the campus will transition to a primarily zero-emission fleet (including a fully electrified BruinBus system) and support these goals through expanded charging capacity. The plan advances UCLA’s existing electrification and campus sustainability initiatives.
The 2022 fellows include Roger Wakimoto, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Kenneth Nagy, Yi Tang, Tommaso Treu, Christine Dunkel Schetter and Gary Orfield; they will be featured this month in the journal Science and honored this summer in Washington, D.C..
New UCLA Health data indicates more men are taking an active role in birth control in post-Roe America, particularly in states with strict limits on abortion rights.
This is among the first studies to find that not only smoking tobacco, but also vaping, may predispose people to increased inflammation and future development of severe COVID-19 and the lingering cardiovascular complications that can occur after initial illness from the virus, said Dr. Theodoros Kelesidis, the study’s lead author.
