Newsroom - UCLA Social Scientists and the news
- 2012, Feb. 12Ruiz - President Obama to present UCLA professor with prestigious National Humanities Medal
- 2012, Feb. 9Derby - Helping Haitians tell their own stories of survival
- 2012, Feb. 710 questions: Lee Ohanian on jobs and economic recovery
- 2012, Jan. 25Gelvin - UCLA historian's book looks at Arab uprisings, their common origins and different paths
- 2012, Jan. 18Professor emeritus Leo Snowiss dies (Daily Bruin)
- 2012, Jan. 17In Memoriam: Leo Snowiss, political science professor
- 2012, Jan. 11Brantingham - LAPD's sci-fi solution to real crime
- 2012, Jan. 4Zhou - Survivor of Cultural Revolution chronicles immigrants' lives
- 2011, Dec. 21Vavreck - UCLA political scientist heads to Iowa, New Hampshire for survey of presidential campaign
- 2011, Dec. 15Traweek - Faculty win $1.2M grant to study data practices
- 2011, Dec. 12UCLA comes out to support Angelina Jolie's new film
- 2011, Dec. 1Atkeson - Rising fear over bank stock prices calls for forceful leadership
- 2011, Nov. 30Geography - Angel Flights
- 2011, Nov. 21Terraciano - 'Contested Visions' unveils contrasting histories of colonial Latin America
- 2011, Nov. 17Green - Seeing Afghan history through Afghan eyes
- 2011, Nov. 14Distinguished Professor Walter Allen named Sudikoff Fellow
- 2011, Nov. 8Appleby - The American economic pyramid: a reality check
- 2011, Nov. 2Fan - China's aging population can't afford health care
- 2011, Oct. 24Hale - Professor hailed for half century of contributions as Middle East scholar, activist
- 2011, Oct. 20Zhou - New book explores professor's journey in Asian American studies
- 2011, Oct. 17Sanders - Foreign perceptions of the U.S. are complex and changeable, book argues
- 2011, Oct. 6Baca - Great Wall restoration gives untold history new life
- 2011, Sep. 27Ohanian - Stimulus and the Depression: the untold story
- 2011, Sep. 27Buera - Rich country, poor country: Economists say financial sector key driver of economic growth
- 2011, Sep. 6Gruys - Mirror, mirror, off the wall
- 2011, Sep. 6Apter - The Tea Party's prison
- 2011, Sep. 5Tilly - Unions continue to take a beating in post-recession climate, UCLA study shows
- 2011, Sep. 2Brantingham - Researchers develop predictive policing model for Santa Cruz PD
- 2011, Sep. 1Gruys - Student goes year without looking in the mirror
- 2011, Aug. 24Hill - Inside the Marcus Garvey archives
- 2011, Aug. 22Cattelino - Anthropology prof wins Cultural Horizons Prize
- 2011, Aug. 18Hill - Marcus Garvey movement owes large debt to Caribbean expats, UCLA historian finds
- 2011, Aug. 17Lytle Hernández - Historian's book on U.S. Border Patrol wins major prize
- 2011, Aug. 1110 Questions for economist Lee Ohanian: Why credit-rating agencies matter
- 2011, Aug. 3Silverman - History prof named the Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
- 2011, July 28Saguy - Why a French sex scandal could only start in the U.S.
- 2011, July 28UCLA College helps prepare China's future scholars
- 2011, July 26Jacoby - The terror from within
- 2011, July 25Stanish - What is war good for? Sparking civilization, suggest UCLA archaeology findings from Peru
- 2011, July 12Grant to widen access to archive dedicated to preserving lesbian, feminist history
- 2011, July 6Kagawa-Singer - Public health professor to study Asian-American breast cancer survivors
- 2011, July 6Subrahmanyam - History prof publishes book on Mughal Empire
- 2011, July 6Appleby - Founding Fathers foresaw presidential ambition to wage war
- 2011, June 28Groseclose - Why Chris Wallace was right and Jon Stewart was wrong
- 2011, June 27In Memoriam: Anthropologist John G. Kennedy
- 2011, May 29With global warming, Arctic access will diminish by land but improve by sea
- 2011, May 27Roy - Sociology prof's book wins Charles Tilly Award
- 2011, May 24Williams - Don't conflate Strauss-Kahn's assault with Schwarzenegger's affair
- 2011, May 6Arnold - For UCLA expert on Chumash Indians, roughly hewn beads are child's play
- 2011, May 6Kahn - The challenge of ranking America's 300 cities
- 2011, May 5Binder, Gelvin, Rapoport - Al-Qaeda after bin Laden
- 2011, May 4Agnew, Gillespie - Geographer, students had Osama bin Laden in their sights
- 2011, May 4Bawn, Lohmann - Five UCLA faculty to help forge UC's online future
- 2011, Apr. 28In memoriam: Sociologist Harold Garfinkel
- 2011, Apr. 25Narro - Labor Center project director appointed to city board
- 2011, Apr. 20Econ, SSC - Researchers test strategies to motivate students to save energy
- 2011, Apr. 15Hovannisian - Popular Armenian studies professor is chosen to deliver 'My Last Lecture'
- 2011, Apr. 13Waugh - UCLA News Week: Civil War legacy
- 2011, Apr. 8Ford, Subrahmanyam - Four UCLA scholars win 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships
- 2011, Apr. 810 Questions for Russian expert Daniel Treisman
- 2011, Apr. 8Bawn, Lohmann - Gates Foundation to fund UC online course development
- 2011, Apr. 710 Questions for UCLA's Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom
- 2011, Apr. 1Appelbaum & Tilly - Job sharing lessens pain of unemployment on workers, state
- 2011, Mar. 22Suzanne Bianchi - She tracks social changes within the American family
- 2011, Mar. 16Piterberg,Spiegel - Faculty experts examine Libya no-fly zone
- 2011, Mar. 11Exhibit touts jazz ambassadors and their global impact
- 2011, Mar. 3Judith Carney - Themes of hunger, food and survival weave through her life story
- 2011, Mar. 2Kerri Johnson - Dude, you throw like a crybaby!
- 2011, Feb. 23Peter Baldwin - What is the UC system worth?
- 2011, Feb. 17Thomas Gillespie - Professor's documentary wins coveted Telly award
- 2011, Feb. 10New web forum helps researchers search for collaborators
- 2011, Feb. 3Gary Nash - Historian brings president's slaves into national spotlight
- 2011, Jan. 2710 Questions for economist Lee Ohanian on the business of sports
- 2011, Jan. 27Charles Stanish - Archaeologists give villagers a stake in preserving history
- 2011, Jan. 25Matthew Kahn - How we gain from China's green advances
- 2011, Jan. 19Cindy Fan - Is extreme parenting effective?
- 2011, Jan. 3Joyce Appleby - Filibustering against the will of the people needs to be busted
- 2010, Dec. 16Political scientist Eugene V. Wolfenstein is dead at 70
- 2010, Dec. 16Robert Chao Romero - History of Chinese in Mexico documented for first time in English-language book
- 2010, Dec. 14Waldinger will teach NEH summer seminar
- 2010, Dec. 6Peter Baldwin - Globalization spurs brain drain at U.S. universities
- 2010, Dec. 6Robert Chao Romero - Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico
- 2010, Dec. 2Judy Baca - American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education honors three
- 2010, Dec. 1Joan Waugh receives Jefferson Davis Award for Grant biography
- 2010, Nov. 30Laurence Smith - Geography professor envisions "The World in 2050"
- 2010, Nov. 29Martie Haselton - Contact with dads drops when women ovulate
- 2010, Nov. 23Michael Intriligator - Time to get out of Afghanistan
- 2010, Nov. 16Ghislaine Lydon - Inaugural Martin Klein Prize awarded to history prof
- 2010, Nov. 16Joan Waugh - Issues of Civil War still resonate today
- 2010, Nov. 16Roger Farmer - Restoring confidence in the US economy
- 2010, Nov. 15Darnell Hunt - The lessons of the Nov. 2 election
- 2010, Nov. 10Lynn Vavreck - Midterm Election Results (video)
- 2010, Oct. 28Andreas Wimmer - Facebook study finds race trumped by ethnic, social, geographic origins in forging friendships
- 2010, Oct. 2110 Questions for Tim Groeling on the power of political ads
- 2010, Oct. 15Lynn Vavreck - UCLA faculty experts advisory: Attack ads in campaigns are valuable
- 2010, Oct. 11Lee Ohanian - Solid long-term policies, not quick fixes, needed to turn economy around
- 2010, Oct. 610 Questions: Miriam Robbins Dexter on the "magical" female form
- 2010, Oct. 1Darnell Hunt - Bunche Center co-authors to be honored for book collaboration
- 2010, Sept. 22International Migration Scholar Waldinger Joins Institute Leadership
- 2010, Sept. 16Tim Groeling - Obama's best chance for reelection? Democratic losses in 2010, says UCLA political scientist
- 2010, Sept. 1610 Questions for Jared Diamond on the prospects of global collapse
- 2010, Sept. 3Joan Silk - "They help us imagine what early human ancestors might have been like."
- 2010, Aug. 31Matthew Kahn - Will climate change make Seattle the new L.A.?
- 2010, Aug. 30William Roy - American folk music's long and winding road to relevance
- 2010, Aug. 2710 Questions for Sebastián Edwards
- 2010, Aug. 24Marilyn Raphael - Climate change is here to stay -- for centuries
- 2010, Aug. 19Roger Farmer - One route to creating more jobs
- 2010, Aug. 17Matthew Kahn - Capitalism will help us adapt to climate change, economist says
- 2010, Aug. 9Peter Baldwin - Vacation-deprived Americans still a happy lot
- 2010, Aug. 6Cindy Fan - "Many non-Asians and non-Chinese are using (the treatment) . . ."