Mayor Karen Bass is UCLA Anderson's 2023 commencement speaker Karen Bass is the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles and the first woman and second African American to be elected as the city's chief executive. The graduation ceremony will take place on June 16 in UCLA's Wilson Plaza. The ceremony will also be livestreamed.
California Surgeon General Diana Ramos to deliver 2023 UCLA Fielding commencement address Ramos, who earned a Master of Public Health degree from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 2004, was appointed California Surgeon General by Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2022. The 2023 UCLA Fielding commencement ceremony will take place on June 16 in Royce Hall on UCLA campus. The ceremony will also be livestreamed.
L.A. City Council President Paul Krekorian to speak at 2023 International Institute commencement Krekorian has been a member of the Los Angeles City Council (representing District 2) for 13 years and was unanimously elected its president in 2022. His long career spans the practice of law, service as counsel to the Webster Commission following the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and four years as a member of the California State Assembly. The ceremony will take place in Royce Hall on June 17.
LAEDC’s Stephen Cheung named keynote for UCLA Extension graduation ceremony Stephen Cheung, president and CEO of Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), has been selected as UCLA Extension's 2023 keynote speaker on June 23. The double Bruin earned his bachelor's degree in psychobiology and master’s degree in social work. The ceremony will live streamed through UCLA Extension’s YouTube channel.
Founded in 1979, UCLA’s OutWrite is the oldest queer college publication in the nation. Today it continues to serve as a source of commentary, elevating the conversation around LGBTQ+ rights & culture.
California’s political leadership is shifting as two of its icons, former Governor Jerry Brown and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, take their leave. Their overlapping political lives have made this state what it is.
Yousef Bozorgnia, Sharon Dolovich and Aaron Littman received Public Impact Research awards at a June 2 ceremony. Bozorgnia was recognized for his work to help communities better prepare for earthquake hazards while Dolovich and Littman were honored for their work to combat COVID-19 in U.S. prisons and jails.
The fundraiser invited students, staff, and faculty to make ceramic bowls to raise money for UCLA’s Community Programs Office (CPO) Food Closet. With a donation, attendees can select any bowl, which was then filled with a vegetarian lunch provided by Lulu, the restaurant at the Hammer Museum. The Yummy Bowl Benefit was created by UCLA Department of Art professors Candice Lin and Anna Sew Hoy. In 2022, the two artists launched the inaugural fundraiser after learning that over 40% of UC students reported being food insecure.
A new report from the UCLA Asian American Studies Center has found that race and ethnicity played significant roles in determining citywide elections in 2020 and 2022.
Profit is often key to nonprofits being able to have their desired impact. A new course at UCLA teaches teams of undergraduates to develop earned-income opportunities for philanthropic companies.
Three UCLA Luskin graduate students have been selected to participate in the prestigious Bohnett Fellowship Program for the 2023-24 academic year.
This year’s fellows — representing all three of the School’s graduate programs — are: India Woods, who is pursuing a joint public policy and social welfare degree, posted to the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety; urban planning student Jose Alvarez, who will be posted to the Mayor’s Office of Infrastructure ; and public policy student Nelowfar Ahmadi, who will work in the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
Dr. Sha'shonda Revelsgrew up in rural Arkansas — an area with an extreme lack of health care resources. Now she is helping improve access to lung cancer screening in Black and Latino communities.
New UCLA-led research suggests that patient mortality rates, likelihood of readmission, length of stay and cost of care were virtually identical for elderly hospitalized patients who were treated by physicians with doctor of medicine degrees versus those who were treated by physicians with doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees.
