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Shane Campbell-Staton says “superheroes give us the opportunity to discuss where the science meets the fiction, and how scientific innovation influences our lives.”

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ Latin American Cities Initiative brings urban planning students, educators and practitioners into a multinational conversation.

UCLA Arts’ “10 Questions” hybrid class/public lecture series had professors, students and the audience pondering what is space, freedom, and even a university.

UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy hosts new course for graduate students across campus interested in battling housing injustice.

Since their birth in the turbulent late ’60s, UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers have made waves far beyond the campus.

The UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program hosted 40 students from across the country last summer in an effort to help increase diversity in the field.

Units across campus will host events on global issues, international careers and study abroad.

Recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards were honored by the Academic Senate at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching awards ceremony.

A class created by adjunct professor David Leaf will tell the band’s story through film, video and interviews with music industry executives.

The program is both an upper-level undergraduate course and public lecture series that brings together 40 leading minds to discuss 10 timely and fundamental questions.

New major is an extension of the jazz studies concentration, established in 1996 by jazz icon Kenny Burrell.

In this Q&A, director of the UCLA Game Lab Eddo Stern discusses the lab’s origins and what projects they’re sending to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Tribal Leadership and Community Development Certificate began with 23 students and now has more than 200 enrollees.

Students at the National McNair Scholars Conference had the opportunity to present research, learn about the application processes and network with professors.

To earn the certificate, students must complete five courses in environmental law and produce a supervised research paper.

In her esteemed career, Barbara Drucker has left an indelible mark not just on UCLA and the art world, but in Los Angeles schools where she reshaped arts education.

The Prison Education Program helps incarcerated students change their lives through education, and informs UCLA students about how prisons affect communities.

Since its inception in 2015, the program has provided 33 UCLA students with funding to complete research, projects or internships that focus on food issues.

The proposed minor would create new opportunities to engage students across all majors on campus, and it would extend the campus’s existing strength in Iranian studies.

Visit was a part of the UCLA Labor Center’s Parent Worker Project, which trains parents to be advocates for their children’s education.

Eugene & Maxine Rosenfeld Hall will be one of the few facilities in the nation to unite mock clinical experiences, surgical and procedural simulation, and interprofessional emergency and hospital team training.

The magazine has listed six UCLA professional schools and graduate programs among the top five in the country, and another seven are listed in the top 10.

UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is holding a two-day conference this weekend looking back at a critical moment in the Civil Rights Era.

“It’s critical to educate the next generation of scientists to understand how and why our climate is changing, and what measures must be taken to adapt,” said professor Alex Hall.

UCLA students helping teach former gang members how to resolve their conflicts peacefully find themselves transformed by the experience.