“MAESTRA” is a 33-minute documentary that explores the experience of nine women in Havana, Cuba, who, as young girls, taught in the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961, a movement that changed the nation.
Catherine Opie, fine arts photographer and photography professor at UCLA, discusses her life and work at Annenberg Space for Photography’s Skylight Studios.
Xinshu (Grace) Xiao, UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology, is among 33 outstanding scientists nationwide to be awarded a grant to expand the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements.
Inspired by experimental performances of the 1960s, “TELETHON” is a participatory performance staged in front of a live audience, who will hear the sounds of dial tones, ringing, voicemail and voices asking about feminism.
UCLA law professors Carole Goldberg and Angela Riley will discuss tribal sovereignty and Indian rights at the Hammer Museum, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 1.
The American Association of Cancer Researchers will honor Dr. Roger Lo, an accomplished UCLA physician-scientist widely recognized his work in understanding treatment-resistant melanoma.
Join UCLA historian Benjamin Madley for a conversation on his book "An American Genocide" that chronicles the decline of the Californian indigenous population throughout the 1800s.
Athletes will start in regular intervals and compete against the clock to compare their times against those of some of the top collegiate triathletes in California.
For the past ten years, cityLAB - UCLA has been at the center of city architecture innovation, particularly in Los Angeles. The cityLAb Times Ten exhibition will showcase the lab’s research on some of the critical challenges facing the 21st century.
Are we facing a constitutional crisis? Or is the president simply exercising the robust power of his position, which was conferred by the people? A CrossCheck Live panel of UCLA law faculty will take up these questions and others.
Hear about the latest data science-related research in a number of domains and learn how leading-edge companies are leveraging data science for success.
Join Marc Lynch, professor of political science at George Washington University, for a lecture on Syria and the new Arab wars on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m. in Bunche Hall.
Ginny Steel, the Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, has been elected to chair the steering committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded Andrea Fraser, professor of art at UCLA, a $40,000 unrestricted grant, one of four given to visual artists.
Join Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director for the Centers for Disease Control for a discussion on the inevitability of health threats and the preventability of global health catastrophes.
Recently, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, a socio-cultural anthropologist in the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, answered a few random questions for the Zócalo Public Square website before appearing on a Zócalo/UCLA panel at the Japanese American Museum.
CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins seeks to "disrupt aging" with a fresh outlook on the nation's increasingly older population — and how society will change as a result.