Opinion + Voices

Daniel Blumstein is a professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and co-author of "The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It)." His op-ed...

Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of a forthcoming book, "How the Other Half Gets Scapegoated: Immigrants and the Working Poor in the U.S."  This op-ed appeared originally in the...

Chancellor Gene Block serves on the board of directors of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and is a member of the executive committee of the Association of American Universities. This op-ed appeared March 14, 2013, in...

Kevin M. Dirksen (right) is an ethics fellow at the UCLA Health System Ethics Center. Neil S. Wenger is the center's director.     The 911 call last month that led to an emergency dispatcher begging workers at a Bakersfield senior...

Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This op-ed appeared March 1, 2013, in...

Danny Oppenheimer (left) is an associate professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mike Edwards, the founding contributor of Leftfielder.org, a blog on politics and media, and Oppenheimer have written a book, ...

UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection."Not only do they get chronic wounds more than the rest of us, but they take longer to heal in that...

Richard Walter is the chairman of UCLA's graduate program in screenwriting and author of "Essentials of Screenwriting." His op-ed appeared Feb. 21 in USA Today.       When I'm hungry and crave a tuna sandwich, I don't go to a...

Kal Raustiala is a professor of law and a professor at the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as the director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International...

Adam Winkler is a professor at UCLA School of Law and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America." This op-ed was originally published today (Feb. 15) in the Los Angeles...

John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering and a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. This piece was originally posted Feb. 1, 2012, on the website, Fast Company.   One day in December 1955, former...

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is an associate professor of education at UCLA. Her op-ed appeared Jan. 30, 2013, in the Huffington Post.    A past president of Guatemala is being called to justice in Guatemala, for atrocities committed by...

Abigail Saguy, an associate professor and vice chair of sociology at UCLA, is the author of “What’s Wrong With Fat?” Her op-ed appeared Jan. 25, 2013, in the Washington Post.   Obesity is widely regarded as one of the greatest...

Prof Daniel Blumstein calls out the Super Bowl for going superficially green, and suggests improving your viewing party by consciously ignoring the "orgy of advertising" and focusing on friendships instead of unsustainable consumption.

Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA and the co-director of the Civil Rights Project based at UCLA. He is the co-author of "The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American...

Imelda Nava-Landeros is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and faculty adviser in the Teacher Education Program. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is dean of the school. This op-ed appeared Jan. 8 in the...

Beverly Macy, CEO of Gravity Summit, Inc., and co-author of "The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing" (McGraw-Hill, 2011), teaches executive global marketing and branding and social media marketing for UCLA Extension. This op-ed originally...

On Jan. 7, critics of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center published a guest opinion column in the Daily Bruin, elaborating on their lawsuit challenging the project. UCLA Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen...

A. Janet Tomiyama is a UCLA assistant professor of psychology and director of the Dieting, Stress, and Health Laboratory. The op-ed, which she co-authored, appeared recently in the Huffington Post. It was co-authored by Britt Ahlstrom,...

Prof Daniel Blumstein argues for an new amendment to the constitution to protect people's right to clean air, pure water and the preservation of the environment.

UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection."They ate together. They cried together. They said how sad it was to lose the dead boy…And they reached...

Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA and author of "The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism." Her op-ed appeared originally today in the Los Angeles Times.   On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate...

Douglas Kellner is the George F. Kneller Professor of the Philosophy of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. This op-ed was originally posted Dec. 20 in the Huffington Post.   Will the brutal...

Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is a former adviser on Education, Peace, and Justice to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and is co-author of Cultures...