Scholar, author, and activist, Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor of Northwestern University will present a UCLA Luskin Lecture reflecting her work around Black politics, social movements and racial inequality.

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s foremost Constitutional scholars, covers these issues in a series of three Hammer Forums.…

Poet Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning 3 Sections, reads from his work. He is also the author of That Was Now, This Is Then, The Long Meadow, and Wild Kingdom. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications and anthologies including The…

Do you love your job? Are you happy with your life? Can you be better? Learn about these 7 transferable skills and how mastering them can help you live a fulfilling life, at work, at home, and overall. 

From Buddhist traditions to daily exercises, enhance your physical and mental health with the ultimate practical guide to mindfulness: Fully Present: The Science. Art, and Practice of Mindfulness.

If you’ve ended up feeling stuck in your work life—or your whole life—over the past couple of years, or decade, you’re not alone. Sure, we’ve had no shortage of global and domestic crises to distract and disorient us. But other factors are always influencing us in the…

UCLA Athletics and the UCLA Alumni Association are proud to invite all our alumni to Alumni Association Appreciation Day.

Join Career Coach & Talent Management Consultant and UCLA alumna, Susan Chang, for a discussion on how to effectively ask for what you want in your career.

This faculty workshop—for both new and veteran teachers—will address equitable teaching practices.

This faculty workshop—for both new and veteran teachers—will address equitable teaching practices.

Jonah Lipsitt

Few strategies are as important to a long, healthy life as physical activity: It’s associated with a lower risk for heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, depression, some cancers and obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…

HIGHER TEMPERATURES, extreme weather events, sea-level rise and more frequent outbreaks of vectorand water-borne infectious diseases are among the effects of climate change that threaten the health of populations in many parts of the world. Few countries are as…

BEYOND THEIR NATURAL BEAUTY, the wetlands along the Pacific and other coastal regions serve valuable purposes for animals and humans alike. Ecologically, they provide a natural habitat for wildlife, including many endangered species and commercial fish. Less…

UCLA’S SUSTAINABLE LA GRAND CHALLENGE aims to lead Los Angeles County into a future in which it obtains all of its energy from renewable resources by 2050 — a transition viewed as essential to the effort to slow the effects of climate change. And if any more…

THE CAMP FIRE that started on November 8, 2018 in Northern California’s Butte County burned through more than 150,000 acres and destroyed more than 18,000 structures over 17 days. Eighty-five lives were lost, making it the deadliest and most destructive fire in…

BACK WHEN HE WAS A GRADUATE STUDENT, Jisung Park concluded that the insufficient urgency in addressing climate change was due in part to the way the issue was depicted.

“It seemed to me that the human element was missing,” says Park, now a Fielding…

AS AN EXPERT IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE whose work has increasingly focused on the weather events that are occurring with growing intensity and frequency as the climate changes, Dr. David Eisenman has observed that one type of natural disaster…

CLIMATE CHANGE is already jeopardizing health and well-being in the U.S. and abroad, and is projected to become a greater public health threat in the decades to come. The World Health Organization has outlined some of the key ways in which climate change affects…

As he neared retirement after more than three decades on the UCLA Fielding School faculty, Dr. Gerald Kominski knew what he wanted to leave as part of his legacy.

During his 32 years at the school, Kominski, a professor in the Department of Health…