Nation, World + Society

Thrower, professor emeritus of geography at UCLA and a passionate world traveler, died Sept. 2 at his home in Pacific Palisades.

A UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy report tracks the state’s history of restricting and expanding the franchise.

A new UCLA report recommends that state and local officials develop plans to retrain members of the Latino workforce for jobs in the digital economy.

Economists say the positive outlook is partly due to consumers and businesses quickly adapting to virtual commerce.

Executives, journalists and even a Bruin football player are pursuing a degree that provides professionals a leg up in legal issues.

Hirabayashi was the first professor in the United States to hold an endowed chair focused on the wartime confinement of Japanese Americans.

The linguistic anthropologist is co-editor of a new book that brings together 27 academics to analyze and understand the language of our political moment.

The gift is the largest ever contribution that a tribe has made to a law school and one of the biggest in history from a tribe to a university.

The ambitious paper illuminates the barriers to success that limited many of the city’s residents even before COVID-19 but have been exacerbated since the pandemic began.

A new film by two UCLA faculty members focuses on volunteers who search the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants who have died.

500 UCLA students volunteer to provide academic support to K-12 students across L.A. County through the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families.

Binder co-founded and was the driving force behind UCLA Law’s trailblazing experiential education program from its inception in 1970.

Professor Aslı Bâli offers insight into activism in Turkey by way of a social media selfie trend.

Eighty-seven percent of those surveyed said they disagreed with the policy — including 71% of Republicans.

Research revealed that over 88% of residents with temporary protected status are in the labor force, and that almost 11% are self-employed.

Inspired by Roosevelt’s Depression-era fireside chats, the Chilean American visual artist has created a program designed to address today’s America.

With a statewide moratorium on evictions set to expire, thousands of renters are at risk of losing their housing.

Led by Sarah Haley, professor of gender and African American studies, the mission is to support and develop Black feminist scholarship and ideas among the campus community.

Celebrating prominent African American women who played a critical role in the fight for women’s suffrage.

The projected undercount will disproportionately hurt the poor and people of color, UCLA researchers warn.

The online gathering was a unique opportunity for fledgling public policy experts to help make history.

Waxman is director of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.

UCLA political and gender studies experts offer their thoughts on the history-making announcement.

Hawkins, who spent his entire academic career at UCLA, serving as a dedicated scholar, teacher and administrator, died June 27.

UCLA’s Raul Hinojosa said that their reduced purchasing power amid a looming recession is a public health and economic crisis.